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[–] koper 204 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”

They found the dumbest possible American to give a comment.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Them protesting peacefully is exactly why Bezos will eventually get things his way.

Please notice that Brugnaro, mayor of Venice, is politically spawned out of Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia.

Italian lesson: "Dio li fa, e poi li accoppia": "God makes them, and then pairs them"

[–] Ronno 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Americans seem to overestimate how big Amazon is here in Europe. Most people I know rarely buy anything off Amazon, a couple have Amazon Prime to watch content on, but that's mostly it.

[–] koper 3 points 1 hour ago

But even if you do buy on Amazon sometimes, why should that make you on board with surrendering your city to this billionaire? It's part of this toxic obsession of finding minor 'gotchas'/hypocrisies instead of debating substance. You MUST subscribe to every belief of team A and hate everything from team B.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 1 hour ago

You seem to underestimate it though. Amazon is pretty big here as well, even just considering the "buy stuff" parts.

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

I was listening to an NPR segment asking American tourists at a French vineyard what they thought of the tariffs and they also managed to find the biggest group of dipshit chads they could

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 37 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing as they are on a wine tour, it's probably another out of touch millionaire

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wine tours are maybe a couple hundred dollars. We do 'em pretty often. Great deal and you often get a tour of the countryside as well. If you're ever in the Kelowna, BC area, check it out.

[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A couple hundred feels like out-of-touch money to me.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Not exactly millionaire money, though. It's a fun vacation option and fairly reasonable as those go.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 56 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, it's not that difficult.

At least they found one that could form a coherent sentence.

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

As an American, I think finding the dumbest of us would be hard given the amount of competition.

[–] Akasazh 1 points 43 minutes ago

Wel statistically it's just more likely, hence yourself the outlier!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 43 points 12 hours ago

I didn't think it was that hard at all, he's in the news every day!

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago

Unlike the president

[–] swemg@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago

Man, talk about being fucking disconnected from the rest of the world.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's of course impossible to know if it was intentional, but lets not forget - platforming the dumb drives engagement, one of the reasons our view of the world is distorted towards thinking people are worse than they are. (Don't get me wrong, people aren't great on average, and broadly follow the lowest common denominator trends - but especially with terminally online people, there is a huge problem with paranoia and defeatism thanks to that dynamic).

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

people aren’t great on average

Well, of course not. If 'great' was the average, it wouldn't be great anymore - it'd just be average.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 hours ago

Aren't great on... median? Majority fall below some arbitrary standard of "decent"?

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Very likely it's intentionally chosen or even fake to push the narrative that US protests are violent..

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Palantir laughs quietly

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 hours ago

May be on to something there. Only "Jake Springer" I see on LinkedIn posted from Port Aransas, TX yesterday.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Eeh, not a rare find when overseas. Most people don't "tour" overseas, but you frequent busloads of these people.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

They just checked voter registration. Easy pickins from there.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

Well, that’s a pretty easy search.