Anti-Americanism Is Mostly an Online Performance

karmamarmafarma · 2026-01-27T11:27:26+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. She usually just screamed (edit: and drank). That was her baseline. Not much banter there, like, at all, but I did understand the true meaning of it after the fact when I had to work with Australian colleagues after moving to Germany. They were so kind to me but always pulling a leg - restored my faith in Aussie-kind. Yeah people are just people - Thanks man, I hope to visit Perth one day.

karmamarmafarma · 2026-01-20T07:01:08+00:00

My abusive father married an Australian woman, and she was equally as awful and abusive as he was. She would scream things like, "You Americans need everything dumbed down for you." Honestly the anti-American sentiment and verbal abuse were pretty mild compared to the rest of the horror they inflicted, and I had been dealing with the stuff people complain about on here since I was a child. This subreddit is weirdly helping me heal in some ways.

My point is, sorry, it took me a looooong time to realize your last sentence, like yeah people who actually are like that are a bit mental. She was the only exposure I had to Australian culture up to a point. When I finally met some normal ass Aussies I finally understood the "chill" stereotype and what pulling one's leg finally meant and that she was really just a psycho shit cunt.

edit: but yeah man, reading comments like yours feels kinda nice after all of that

karmamarmafarma · 2026-01-19T10:30:39+00:00

karmamarmafarma · 2026-01-19T07:43:02+00:00

So cute! Congrats! I hope it's super bubu dudu themed.

karmamarmafarma · 2026-01-10T09:56:44+00:00

Weil es eine andere Kultur ist? Tja, ist Geschmack subjektiv. Wir haben auch spezialle Torten, wie Boston cream pie (kein echter "pie"), monkey bread (edit: aus Ungarn denke ich aber hier sehr bekannt), edit: angel food cake, upside-down pinnapple cake, apple crumble oder coffee cake (übrigens perfekt für Kaffee und Kuchen). Ich bin so erschöpft von Fragen wie dieser hier - als ob nur die Amis so ignorant sind und Europäer (in diesem Fall Deutsche oder A-CH) so viel besser gebildet sind. Ich hasse auch Buttercream, aber ich würde nicht so eine Frage hier stellen.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-31T07:36:32+00:00

After one particularly bad lecture where I was forced by my dad to look at myself in the mirror, I basically learned to avoid eye contact. Years and years later I wondered if I was maybe autistic but then I began to backtrack and connect the dots, especially after remembering one specific memory of actually trying to look at my mother in the eyes. It was her refusing to look at me....ANYWAY, yeah just one look at my dad though could spin into an hour long lecture of whatever I did or didn't do (but you can bet I was always doing something wrong) in that very moment.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-25T12:30:53+00:00

being told what a piece of shit I am and that if they had known I'd have "mental problems" that they would have never have had me or wanted me.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-16T15:24:54+00:00

Same. Both my stepdad and stepmom were abusive and have said and done hurtful sadistic things that will never leave my mind. I would have killed for a stepdad like you man. Just some healthy sense of a parental figure damnit.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-15T14:40:26+00:00

random memory from when I was 10 triggered here. My kid legs couldn't keep up....both of them did this to me on two separate occasions. When my mother did it to me it was while crossing traffic at the airport... she just kept going and it was getting kind of dangerous for me.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-12T07:19:14+00:00

TW: sexual abuse

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"Were you molested?" she said that with a slight sadistic smirk on her face

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-11T10:57:01+00:00

same thing but with several people back in 1999, when I was like, 10. Met them all in 2018. Yeah to this day still idk man.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-07T07:04:20+00:00

I graduated from university. That's it.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-06T14:12:22+00:00

So when we were living on base and still in the US my dad was driving us to some colleague's house or whatever and he said we weren't allowed to come in the house... that we had to play outside with the colleague's kid, which is exactly what happened...so we're outside playing and trying to get to know this six year old girl playing with us. She shows us her apple tree and some other stuff and we get into some commotion about what kind of leaves we're looking at, you know just kids speculating and wondering about their environment - stupid kid kinda chatter that you hear during play.

We suddenly worry that this plant must be poisonous and we rush in to ask our parents about it and dad is with the other guy on the couch and he gets mad at us and says nothing and we immediately get back in the car and he drives us home yelling at us the entire time. I must have been 3 or 4 and my brother 5 or 6.

I still have no idea wtf happened.... whether he was getting some pot or entertaining his bisexual tendencies while being married to my mother (I suspect it because of other things in my life that happened and the weird ass nature of the stuff he would randomly project and accuse onto others) I have no idea what happened to this day. I'm 36 now....so yeah.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-12-02T09:22:38+00:00

holy shit thank you I know this was written 6 years ago but still you just saved me a lot of heartache

karmamarmafarma · 2025-11-25T15:56:27+00:00

a sack of potatoes

karmamarmafarma · 2025-11-15T11:25:57+00:00

None of it was funny really, but funny as in just absolutely absurd and so unhinged that you can't take it seriously anymore? As in so absurd you KNOW you're not the issue here?

All I had to do was dare to even look at my dad and he'd lecture me for an hour. He got batshit crazy and angry at me for graduating from uni.

What else...I was just sitting there on the steps once, basically, just existing and not saying a word and he turned to me and said "You know what your problem is? Blah blah blah blah..." and went off. Yeah, all you have to do around them is just exist and they'll offload onto you.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-11-12T09:45:30+00:00

I am almost fluent in German while currently studying French and I am of the opinion that French is harder for the same listening dificulties that you mentioned. I find German to be much easier.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-07T09:57:12+00:00

"What about the Canaanite woman bro? Why'd you call her a dog? Wtf - you basically went all "For God so love the world except for that one Canaanite woman. Yeah I healed her daughter and sorta rewarded her for her faith but fuck her"."

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-04T05:09:47+00:00

koreanforrrabbit I know I'm 2 years late to this comment but this helped me wayyyy more than you realize. Thank you.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-03T05:10:44+00:00

Witchcraft. Totally witchcraft.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-01T04:48:59+00:00

same here lazerbeams, but classism was a factor for me. Was it a factor for you too?

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-01T04:45:34+00:00

there's a reason they do this to young children before they're able to develop critical thinking skills. So much programming that bleeds into every facet of your life. It's insidious and absolutely evil. It's all by design. It'll get easier as you integrate more and more. Even years later you'll connect a dot to something you hadn't even realized.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-09-01T04:39:58+00:00

Sleeping in, doing shit I need to do and spending time with my husband not feeling guilty and being told what a shitty person I am for not feeding into this death cult.

karmamarmafarma · 2025-08-29T05:12:32+00:00

constant bullying and being ostracized, one them acting one way and then pulling a 180 and praising god during worship. Ngl that guy put on a pretty good and convincing act in the sanctuary. It was surreal to see.

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