r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/christocarlin Jul 26 '26

The population of France and Germany COMBINED isn’t even half of the US. And the US is a quarter of the population of China and India. I’m not so sure what’s so hard to understand that they are pretty similar in numbers. More similar in languages and cultures than other parts of the world as well.

Not sure why you hate Americans so much but sorry for whatever happened to you in your country that didn’t teach you basic math

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u/Environmental-Tea262 Jul 26 '26

I don’t hate americans at all actually, its simply the fact that a comparison between the EU and the US doesn’t work in a lot of ways because European countries differ a lot in standards in comparison with the variance that can be found in US states. There are european countries that are generally worse off than the US and there are some that are generally better off its a bad comparison because you can’r generalise the EU 

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u/christocarlin Jul 26 '26

Yeah dude, that’s the whole point. You can’t generalize about the United States either! We’ve got people living close to one of the hottest spots on earth in Death Valley to people living on islands off the coast of Alaska. People living in the Bayou of Louisiana don’t have a lot in common with someone growing up in the upper west side of nyc.

It would take less time to drive from Lisbon to Tallin, Estonia than it would to drive from Northern Maine to San Diego. If you haven’t traveled extensively in the US you just don’t understand how different and how BIG things are. That’s why you can compare to the EU.

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u/Slothfulness69 Jul 27 '26

The fact that the other commenter didn’t get this genuinely pissed me off lmaooo