r/USdefaultism Poland 7d ago

Reddit 2024 Recapped (from an American perspective)

A 2024 recap that has been posted on an international subreddit, lists events half of which non-American audience very likely won't be familiar with. The title is ambiguous regarding the country, despite the post clearly being America-centric.

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u/Valuable_Barber6086 7d ago

We had climate disasters in Spain and Southern Brazil, martial law and political chaos in South Korea and innocents being killed in Palestine. But apparently someone thought it was more important to put a baseball player in the 2024 recap that no one outside the US knows about.

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u/ExoticPuppet Brazil 7d ago

Also that thing falling on a cargo ship. Clearly more important than the floods and the end of Bashar Al-Assad dictatorship.

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u/minibois Netherlands 7d ago

the end of Bashar Al-Assad dictatorship.

I assumed picture nr. 2 (which features a Syrian flag) was meant to represent that.

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u/ExoticPuppet Brazil 7d ago

Might be, but I think there are plenty of images that hold more weight and that represents better. My results of "End of Syria dictatorship":

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u/KkGUnknown 7d ago

Both Syria and Gaza are in those photos…

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u/wish_me_w-hell 7d ago

Disaster in Serbia in which 15 people died and 2 are gravely injured when train station canopy collapsed, which in turn triggered state wide protests that are lasting for 1-1.5 months now. I guess that just a chill guy takes precedent.

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u/Renault_75-34_MX Germany 4d ago

Political caos in Germany as well, on the same day as the results of the US presidential election came out

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u/That_Case_7951 Greece 1d ago

We had the Thessaloniki metro being built after 50 years since the first ideas and 30 since the first acts