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why are US whites so much tougher than every other kind of white?

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We are willing to accept a level of violence that most other white countries can't accept. Why is that? Did all the genetic rejects stay in Europe?
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>be America
>try to spread democracy and capitalism so that other countries prosper like you do
>get considered the bad guy
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US whites need guns to feel safe meanwhile European whites don't give a fuck even if terrorists drive vans in to crowds. Seems to me that US whites are pussies compared to European white.
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>>77860161
At least we don't have terrorists driving into us with vans.

The average European city is more dangerous than Chicago and Detroit nowadays. I think your government is lying to you about your out of control crime rate, while here its sensationalized
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Different cultures. This trend of being a huge self-hating faggot is the product of the end of WW2, americans weren't hit this much by this trend because they're not in Europe.
It's mostly an western/central Europe thing
But it spreaded all over the western world so you're still in to some extent but not as bad as like France or Sweden
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americans aren't white, they're niggers that's why they're violent.
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>>77860116
Enjoying violence=/=tough

Particularly when it's all in vidya/movies
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>>77860161
I wish a terrorist would drive into me so this nightmare finally ends.
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>>77860205
We had much worse things happen to the USA (like the civil war) yet we don't hate ourselves nor ever had any inclination to flee to other countries

Look at our reaction to 9/11 compared to the average terrorist attack in Europe. We bombed the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq and lynched the fuck out of brown people in the USA to the point where they don't feel safe

In Europe, they're coddled.

I guess our value of human life is different
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>America
>white
I hate this meme
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>>77860200
Wrong.
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>>77860208
Better than being a Eurabian.
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>>77860263
You don't understand, I'm talking about WW2, nazis and stuff. At the end of the war people got really afraid of nationalism, then colonialism disappeared, and with the end of pride came self-hating.
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>>77860116
>being proud about living in a violent third world country
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I bet if Europeans had the same access to guns as we do, they'd probably be a lot more manly.

In my town, you have no idea who is armed or not because you can carry a concealed weapon here. So everyone is relatively civil to each other.
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>>77860116
>We are willing to accept a level of violence that most other white countries can't accept.

>>77860200
>The average European city is more dangerous than Chicago and Detroit nowadays.

See this is what I'm talking about. We Europeans are willing to accept a level of violence that US can't accept. Makes us much tougher and we don't even cry after guns cause we are so tough and manly. Did all the cowardly genetic rejects move to the new world?
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>>77860344
But it beats living in fear of Muslims or Niggers everyday.

those who trade security for freedom deserve neither.

>>77860375
Bet you wouldn't say that to my face. My .45 would have a word with you
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We have gypsies literally everywhere, yet we have almost no murders or generally heavy violence incidents, i dont understand how USA is so violent, nobody compares to Gypsies, i dont believe Blacks are just as bad
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>>77860371
>I bet if Europeans had the same access to guns as we do, they'd probably be a lot more manly.
We still had guns not that long ago, and we were still different. You can see how gradually the level of weakness increases over the years in Europe since WW2, this has nothing to do with guns
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>>77860371
>I bet if Europeans had the same access to guns as we do, they'd probably be a lot more manly.

See good example of how Americans see guns as compensation for their mutilated micro penises. It doesn't even register that having a gun has to do with manliness for your average European.
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>>77860263
>We had much worse things happen to the USA (like the civil war) yet we don't hate ourselves nor ever had any inclination to flee to other countries
The civil war happened in another era. Europe had wars before WWII too, but people were just dealing with it differently.
>Look at our reaction to 9/11 compared to the average terrorist attack in Europe. We bombed the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq and lynched the fuck out of brown people in the USA to the point where they don't feel safe
And caused even more terror and hatred against the west.
>I guess our value of human life is different
No, it's a way of thinking that developed because of the whole German and white guilt thing.
The evil European christians with the colonies and the Nazi background and the crusades or whatever are the reason the rest of the world is an uncivilized shithole, according to many people.
Now we have to make up for this, let them live our wealth and all.
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>>77860200
>The average European city is more dangerous than Chicago and Detroit nowadays
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>>77860263
>and lynched the fuck out of brown people in the USA to the point where they don't feel safe

>In Europe, they're coddled.

>I guess our value of human life is different

No it means that Europeans are much more enlightened and tolerant than racist Americans.
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>>77860200
>The average European city is more dangerous than Chicago and Detroit nowadays.
Why do you always have to make yourselves look like fools?
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>>77860468
If being a 'savage" means that Muslims don't drive trucks into crowds, then I'll take that 10/10 times.

Even kids here can look into your eyes and shoot you without feeling anything. Europeans can't do that. They don't have it in them
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>>77860116
You're living wth niggers for centuries and you actually brought them in yourselves.
No shit you're more violent.
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>>77860404
>But it beats living in fear of Muslims or Niggers everyday.

Europeans are manly enough that muslims or niggers don't scare us. We can live with them without guns because we aren't pussies like Americans.

>Bet you wouldn't say that to my face. My .45 would have a word with you

Post a pic with timestamp or STFU bitchboi
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>>77860503
>Even kids here can look into your eyes and shoot you without feeling anything.

That's because Americans aren't human capable of feeling anything. They just shoot people and fatten themselves with burgers.
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>>77860404
I'm pretty sure it's Americans who have to live in constant fear of Africans. Even someone living in the more high risk city like London is safer than an American somewhere in the more infested American cities.
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>>77860116
>Burgers
>tougher
Weird way to spell fatter
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>>77860116
>We are willing to accept a level of violence that most other white countries can't accept.
we are???
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>>77860592
And how many terrorist attacks have happened in the USA? tell me?

Not even Detroit or Chicago or New Orleans gets shit like what happened in Nice or at the Bataclan Theatre.

>>77860440
That's because European "men" are skinny jean wearing nu-males who don't know how to shoot

>>77860625
Yes we are. Think about how many school shootings have happened and how little people actually care anymore. It's acceptable because you never trade away security for freedom.
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>>77860663
Detroit and Chicago have daily shootouts. Also, come back when terrorists crash a plane into a skyscraper in Paris or London.
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In general, the average American male is tougher than the European male. The most masculine sector of European society are all Muslim or Black, which is why your women flock to them

Here, the white man is the most masculine thing here
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>>77860663
>And how many terrorist attacks have happened in the USA? tell me?
At least 2.
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>>77860716
>Detroit and Chicago have daily shootouts

Not as bad as a terrorist attack. Ganbangers fighting for turf isn't ISIS invading our cities and trying to turn them into no-go zones.

You can reason with gangbangers. not terrorists
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Kek. Youre nowhere near as tough as Eastern Europeans. Youre just another weak fat spoiled Western country.
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kek
SJW, helicopter parents and other stuff who make the modern man a pussy are coming from the USA
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>>77860663
>Think about how many school shootings have happened and how little people actually care anymore
this is how fat and lazy we have become ;~;
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>american cities have massive gethos where you will be robbed or killed
>european cities have gethos where mehmets refuse to sell icecream to unvailed women
Hmmmm
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>>77860751
>implying American cities do not have no-go zones
Oh I am laffin. Meanwhile I can walk through any city street and not get harassed or stabbed.
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>>77860792
Then explain our murder rates and why we find that acceptable here?

Exactly Shlomo.

>>77860734
If you add up all the terrorist attacks in Europe + all the murders in Europe since 9/11, the number would exceed the people who died in 9/11
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>>77860835
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1JWiXHeZM

Man what a safe city!
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>We are willing to accept a level of violence that most other white countries can't accept
Maybe you should read your history books.
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>>77860792
>Youre nowhere near as tough as Eastern Europeans
nope. average American is a wimp. not everyone can be spoiled and well off like amerifats :^)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pochreLwrQs

Look at Malmo. If all the native Swedes had access to guns like Americans do, there is no way a no-go zone would exist.

>>77860879
We do. And we know why our ancestors left your leftist Muslim shithole continent. That's why we grasp really hard to our guns
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>>77860901
American soldiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNUMM4iRb0

Dutch soldiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui21vvZfmpc
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>>77860901
no go zones exist in fox news fantasy only, they had to apology for their false information regardin supposedly no go zones in paris.
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>>77860718
blacked porn and cuckolding are both american inventions
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>>77860901
>That's why we grasp really hard to our guns

hahaha what a pussy thing to say. and desu somewhat gay. manly europeans don't need guns to go to no go zones, we just stride through them like what u looking at me brown boi fuck off, with no guns because we don't need some kind of pussified shooting instruments.
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>>77860969
lmao i had forgotten this, fucking americans clinging to their guns because their mutilated micropenises arent enough to satisfy their women.
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>>77860954
Either way that would never happen in America

>>77860997
Enjoy all your terrorist attacks then. I'll enjoy being able to gun terrorists down

I served in Iraq and all the European soldiers were fucking effeminate faggots. Even your rules of engagement are for pussies

We allow for people to shoot first if they are in danger
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Another thing - Europeans also hate the military like a bunch of faggots while we worship them here

We encourage people to have a healthy level of bloodlust
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>>77860116
Cheap bait, but apparently effective.
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>>77860792
How are Eastern Europeans tougher than Americans?

No one believes that right?
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>>77860161
We legitimately need guns though because home invasion is actually something that can happen if you live anywhere close to niggers. America is basically like a more mild version of Brazil or South Africa.
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>>77860529
it was the spanish and the dutch who brought them in to usa
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>>77860940
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khaz_Oruzgan

>News Limited papers reported that Dutch pilots refused to drop below their "safe" height of 5000m to rescue Australian SAS and US forces caught in an ambush in September 2008.

Former SAS sniper Rob Maylor, wounded during the battle, said the Australians had pleaded with the Dutch: "We're in an absolute doozy of a shitfight. We need your assistance as we're taking casualties."

But the Dutch helicopter pilots refused to offer covering fire for the Australian, US and Afghan troops in the ambush. A US soldier was killed and seven SAS soldiers and two sappers were wounded. Trooper Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his role in the battle.

The role of the Dutch in the battle has been described by Maylor in his book SAS Sniper to be released next week. He writes that during the battle the Australians saw two Dutch Apache helicopters escorting a Chinook and radioed the pilots to fire their Hellfire laser-guided missiles and 30mm cannons on the Taliban.

But the Dutch pilots refused to drop below 5000m, despite the Apaches being capable of operating at low levels under heavy fire.

"They wouldn't open up on the Taliban for fear they might draw some fire themselves," Maylor said.

In the end the soldier on the ground responsible for guiding air support told the Dutch: "If you're not going to engage then you might as well f . . k off." And they did, Maylor writes.
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>>77861498
>How are Eastern Europeans tougher than Americans?

Then why is it when Americans hear us Eastern Euros talk, they immediately shit themselves and reach for the gun? Seriously. Put on a Russian accent. Watch as everyone turns suspicious and intimidated.
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>>77862045
The anglos also didnt give us cover fire in Sbrebrenica.
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>>77862045
lol dutch are bunch of pussies for not helping. also australian us and afgan troops were bunch of pussies for getting rekt by pussy taleban lmao
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>>77860846
>If you add up all the terrorist attacks in Europe + all the murders in Europe since 9/11, the number would exceed the people who died in 9/11
Yes, but most mureders in Europe are not related to terrrorism
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>>77860846
>Then explain our murder rates and why we find that acceptable here?

Because """white""" americunts are too afraid to do anything about the growing nig population.
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>>77862045
>1 killed a few wounded and a dog missing
why are modern battles so low intensity
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>>77861241

There are apparently no go zones in America too, ghettos where police won't come.

Also maybe you watched a few too many Marvel movies recently but how are you going to shoot a van driving into people? How are you going to react to a suicide bomber who blows himself up within 2 seconds?

The main reason we have a Muslim problem in Europe instead of anywhere else is simply a geographical one.
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>>77860200
>The average European city is more dangerous than Chicago and Detroit nowadays.
Kek americans are not only flabby pussies but also dumb as bricks. Who knew
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>>77862082
Awww baby Igor scared of a wittle gun?

Getting shot is a reality here but most people live their lives like it's nothing

>>77862315
What no go zones exist in the USA? Tell me? I'll go in there with my gun and I'll tell you if it's no go after all
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>>77860375
>We Europeans are so tough we let our women get raped by shitskins without fighting. back. We are so tough we don't even care!
kys chink
kys chink.
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People only hear about the shootings that happen but not the ones where a gun saved many lives

Enjoy getting truck'd by Abdul
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>>77862384
Man, I wish Europe was a white ethnostate like the US
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>>77862384
>Americans are so tough they let their government shit on their constitution without consequence
Ah so thats why you need your guns. So you can cower in fear with them.
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>>77862315
How about killing all of them? We routinely do that with our minorities and they act out a whole lot less than Muslims do

We can kill women and children at will without any conscience about it. But Europeans are too weak willed to do that because you're inherent cowards
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>>77862450
So the reason why whites get killed in America is because they are a minority. I see.
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>>77862450
>We routinely do that with our minorities and they act out a whole lot less than Muslims do
t. blm nigger. Let me guess, some cop pulled you over for speeding and you think you were murdered?
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>>77862473
Enjoy getting Islam'd with no way of defending yourself

No wonder European women love American men. Most of you faggots are too weak
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>>77862045
Kek, meanwhile 15 polish soldiers a nurse and and 8 bulgarians held off iraqis for 3 days killing almost a hundred men and losing none.
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>>77862523
The Netherlands has a total of 1 victim of Islamic terror attacks.

The USA has thousands. You had a bunch of attacks on the twin towers which you initially tried to ignore. The boston bombings. Even attacks on cartoon exhibitions. You are worse than entire Europe combined.
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I bet little boys there don't even engage in physical fights anymore lmao

Fighting is part and parcel of the American childhood experience
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>>77862581
You mean fake wrestling. For kick boxing people come to the Netherlands.
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>>77862570
Your little cunt is not all of Europe.
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>>77862570
We killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis in retaliation while your government invited the perepetrators families to your country

We have killed thousands of Muslims and those who look like Muslims on American soil as well.

We didn't stand idly by. We understand it's a war of civilizations and treating it as such
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>>77860200
*watches Alex Jones once*
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>>77862620
Muslims had been bombing you since 1993. And you pretended nothing happened.
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>>77862662
And yet we set mosques on fire with """"people"""" inside them

Good job refuting me, weak faggot
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americans are angry manchildren who get triggerfinger when you banter them, thats not tough, thats insecure
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>>77862691
Bet you wouldnt say that to my face
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>>77862690
So what. We have been doing that for centuries. Wiping out Islands in Indonesia. Killing terrorists in Aceh.
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>>77862691
Not all, just op and the first idiot that replied to you.
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>>77862376
>Awww baby Igor scared of a wittle gun?
That's adorable. But no, not me personally. Hungarians sound like vampires when they speak English, not like the Russian mafia. That's a generic Slavic quality I guess.
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Didn't expect this bait to be so successful, congrats OP
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>>77862741
angry manchild response lmao
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>>77860116
Perhaps your tougher than Western Europeans, but you're fat pussies compared to tough white countries like Russia/Serbia/Ukraine.
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>>77862845
I think he does it every day, pretty sure I've seen this a few times
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>>77862907
>you might be stronger than (nation that defeated UK, France and Germany at the same time) but your not stronger than (nations that got bombed to shit)
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>>77862581
>(nation that defeated UK, France and Germany at the same time)
>also bobmbed Russia, Ukraine, Serbia
What fucking nation are you talking about?
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maybe more tough than western europeans but you don't hold a candle to eastern. those fuckers are manly and tough.
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>>77860200
put me in the screencap
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>>77862987
>>77862907
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>>77860116
In short, yes.

The combination of entrepreneurship and core of traditional values installed in america attracted most hard working, resolute, and strong-willed europeans over the past two centuries. Today in Europe you will only find a combination of eunichs/gays which is why we are in a dumpster fire today.
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>>77862611
For the UK to reach the level of terrorism the US has experienced we would have to suffer an attack killing (not wounding) at least 9 people every single day for a full calendar year.
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>>77863069
>Despite the initial shock and successful invasion of the eastern Dutch Republic, the English, French and German forces were eventually driven back. The English were defeated by the navy under Michiel de Ruyter in 1674, resulting in the Treaty of Westminster and eventually leading to the Glorious Revolution. Without English pressure and with the French being held in the south, Cologne and Münster also made peace in 1674.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampjaar
We defeated all major powers in Europe.

>The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange. William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascension to the throne as William III of England jointly with his wife
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
Then invaded the britbongs.

>an expeditionary force of British and Russian troops invaded the North Holland peninsula in the Batavian Republic. The campaign had two strategic objectives: to neutralize the Batavian fleet and to promote an uprising by followers of the former stadtholder William V against the Batavian government. The invasion was opposed by a combined Franco-Batavian army of approximately equal strength. Tactically, the Anglo-Russian forces were successful initially, defeating the defenders in the battles of Callantsoog and the Krabbendam, but subsequent battles went against the Anglo-Russian forces. Following a defeat at Castricum, the Duke of York, the British supreme commander, decided upon a strategic retreat to the original bridgehead in the extreme north of the peninsula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Russian_invasion_of_Holland
lol russians
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>>77863069
>>77862987
I should really stop drinking
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>>77863192
While that's impressive you can't sit here and tell me that one expeditionary force surrendering equals being bombed to hell
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USA! USA! USA!
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>>77862987
what does this even mean
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>>77862599
>for kickboxing people come to the netherlands

topkek
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>>77860200
ah... american education.... the 8th wonder of the world
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>>77863088
>Eastern Europeans
>tough

Yeah that's why their women don't flock to the USA as mail order brides LMAO
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>107 replies
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>>77863655
Europeans are easily triggered by how effeminate they really are

No one thinks of the American man as effemibate
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>>77863626
and your women breed with the big black bulls while you stroke your mutilated micropenises in the corner lmao
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why do retards still respond to this fucking manchild? he makes the same weak bait everyday and still hits bump limit every time
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>>77863740
Truth hurts sometime.

>>77863709
Again, wouldn't say that to my face. You realize who a true man is once they have a gun is pointed in your face.
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>>77863772
>Again, wouldn't say that to my face. You realize who a true man is once they have a gun is pointed in your face.

post a pic with a timestamp bitchboi, otherwise you're just another pussy internet "tough"guy lmao
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>>77860116
Does anyone see White Americans as masculine? That isn't the first word I think of.
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>>77863772
>can't even fight 1v1 without having to use a gun
american """men""" everyone, so cowardly that they need to hide behind a firearm just to feel powerful.
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>>77860116
Subhumans tent to be more violent than civilized people
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>>77860200
great bait mate
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>>77863969
How is using a gun cowardly? It represents finality in a way fists do not.
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>>77863929
America isn't full of nu-male liberal hipster faggots apologizing for everything.

Think about this, when terrorists attack us, we retaliate and ask questions later. When terrorists attack Europe, they apologize for their Muzzies.

See the difference?

>>77863994
LOL you think your 2 inch dick is seen as masculine anywhere?
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I am a Greek (toughest nationality)
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>>77864134
that's what makes them cowardly. every beta nu-male pussy can pull a trigger as evidenced by average american gun owner.
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culture makes americans though

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Draped in all designer, draped in all designer
Draped in all designer, draped in all designer

[Verse 1: Future]
I got all exotic bitches you gon' think I'm racist
I just called a gang of bitches out of immigration
You gon' think we printing money cause the way we make it
I got all these fucking whips and ain't got no payments

[Bridge: Future]
Pink slips sitting in the dashboard with me
Got a gang of broads riding and they on drugs with me
Got a gang of cash on me like I brought the plug with me
Niggas looking for the plug, nigga, I'm the plug really

[Verse 2: Future]
Really I'm the plug, really I'm the plug
I dropped a few whoopty whoops in my cup
Put it on my tab, put her on my tab
Franchise tag on me, Bron Bron
Steph Curry wrists, nigga, Oakland
Percies for the bitches Bishop, magic Don Juan
Standing ovation and an encore
And I keep the check, Nike concord

[Bridge: Future]
Pink slips sitting in the dashboard with me
Got a gang of broads riding with me, on drugs with me
Got a gang of cash on me like I brought the plug with me
Niggas looking for the plug, nigga, I'm the plug really

[Hook: Future]
Really I'm the plug, really I'm the plug
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[Verse 3: Drake]
Whole time I was ready
They was like, "Hold up, wait a minute"
I was like, "Nah, nigga, let's get it"
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I'm probably bias and I'm not saying I'm tough cause I'm not but Australian males are some of the toughest whites in the world.
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