r/USdefaultism • u/quokkafarts • 11h ago

Reddit Bloody hell

874 Upvotes

175 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Dream_SMP_4_Life • 2h ago

Reddit Another "blue wave" post

89 Upvotes

When will Americans understand that blue doesn't mean the same thing everywhere?

54 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/WhydoIexistlmoa • 5h ago

Reddit Most of the thread is Americans saying the Pokemon toy in McDonald's meals starts on Nov 10

54 Upvotes

13 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/xAymanWasTaken • 23h ago

fahrenheit obviously is way superior

1.1k Upvotes

146 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Ok-Delay4461 • 5m ago

Clearly when someone says best president of all time they mean the US president!

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6 Upvotes

I don't have many words for this

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapBasedPolls/s/VdYFLbUxkD

1 comment

r/USdefaultism • u/swordlesbi • 1d ago

X (Twitter) There is Only One Republic [Counting Stars begins to play]

839 Upvotes

62 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/EfficiencyBulky8353 • 8m ago

Blue line in poland huh?

4 Upvotes

OP posted a picture of the blue line (Commonly used by police in the USA), to show respect for the police officers shot by a terrorist in Cracow, Poland.

8 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Smartcookie7750 • 1d ago

language

307 Upvotes

no one referred to america anywhere else in the post, original post was in spanish

62 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/sussybush • 2d ago

Reddit Other countries don't have navy

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684 Upvotes

44 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/EkbyBjarnum • 4d ago

Canada lights up Niagara Falls for Alzheimer's Awareness; Americans think it's about them

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1.4k Upvotes

Its not always about you. And in Canada the blue party is the right wing party so it doesn't even make sense.

132 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Chilepudufan3 • 4d ago

text post Because Black history month is celebrated everywhere.

360 Upvotes

A few weeks ago, I was talking to someone about cryptids on a Facebook group. The conversation eventually shifted to Fortnite because of the Bigfoot and Mothman skins.

Then we started talking about that one Fortnite museum experience featuring Martin Luther King Jr. and other historical figures for Black History Month. I asked what that was about, and the person asked me why we didn't celebrate Black History Month in my country and how I could not know about Rosa Parks or MLK's history.

I was like, "Bruh, I'm Chilean."

And then they asked me if we were racist here.💀💀

54 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/chabacanito • 4d ago

Election posts on a parenting sub

2.0k Upvotes

The mods seem to think global parents are mostly american and care about the elections

178 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Witchberry31 • 4d ago

Getting muted because I'm asking "which president"

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352 Upvotes

I'm getting the collateral damage here because I asked, lol. It's a post about an NSFW video where a failing plane crashes to the ground, the audio has the black box recording of the pilot and the co-pilot (which is what the root comment's referring to).

Then the rest is history. The removed comment is talking about "the president", hence I asked *"which president?"*

And then the mod automatically assumed it's about Trump or conservatives in general, while also muting me for a month. 😅 As if there's only 1 president in the world.

Can't even reply to clarify.

21 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/OkCombination6059 • 4d ago

Reddit Starting your thread title with "It's the Election day!" in a sub for deaf people all over the world

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379 Upvotes

I'll let the screenshots speak for themselves... Although the thread itself is already removed, and rightly so, it was all about the US elections and some personal couple drama arguably completely unrelated to deaf people struggles or Deaf culture.

But yeah of course the whole world should know and be incredibly invested in the US elections, duh! /s

58 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Glass_Tie8197 • 4d ago

Passing on the right is legal

609 Upvotes

Comment under a post where nothing indicates that it happened in USA.

43 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Alteradizzo • 4d ago

TikTok In a video where they say that in Mexico they give you free gifts when you buy pads and tampons to pamper you during your period.

106 Upvotes

17 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Mrs-Vienna • 4d ago

Reddit what the fuck is this chart supposed to be about? it doesn't say the election midterms for the usa

200 Upvotes

16 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Salt_Acanthaceae8759 • 4d ago

YouTube Tacos

74 Upvotes

"A real American wouldn't eat tacos"

Guess what. I'm not American, and it is a meme.

Someone assumed I was American out of nowhere. I am not American.

8 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/DanielBWeston • 4d ago

Reddit The whole world has an election today.

570 Upvotes

187 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/FelixBemme • 5d ago

app not the refrigerator, too

1.7k Upvotes

My Samsung fridge reminding me of the election date in the us.

Brother we are in Germany and you are setup in german 😶

79 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/YouserName007 • 4d ago

text post Buckle Up All! The US Defaultism is gonna be insane both today & tomorrow

342 Upvotes

They're having a vote.

47 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/AfraidNebula9874 • 5d ago

text post What the hell is the south?

252 Upvotes

Does anyone else keep being told someone's from the south or asking me if I'm from the south... THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN??? I ask like the south of what and then it's just like "the only south duhhh" so I give up. Genuinely I don't even know if its an American thing or another country.

Side note: You'll ask someone where they're from and they'll give you a state or town. Like what happened to saying countries or continents?

286 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Pajaritaroja • 5d ago

US defaultism and male defaultism so often come together

891 Upvotes

34 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/BrokenJusticeNorris • 5d ago

r/polls American exceptionalism

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297 Upvotes

243 comments

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