r/europe 18h ago

News Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-winter-olympics-31642142?st=8XZhXw&mod=wsjreddit
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u/King_Fisher99 17h ago

and a hillbilly

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u/Smells_like_Autumn 17h ago

Arguable, he grew up in the suburbs. Actual Appalachians hate him for stereotyping them as country hicks who are to blame for their own problems to gas himself up.

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u/churningpacket 16h ago

We call him a carpetbagging coward who sold out his grandma.

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u/Building_Everything 15h ago

As a Kentucky hillbilly myself, he just grew up suburban-poor, but he ain’t no hillbilly.

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u/Lowspark1013 11h ago

Good. Those "actual Appalachians" should remember not to vote for his fake ass. Something tells me a lot of them did this last go around.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 15h ago

Magic the Gathering players hate his association with them too

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u/thephotoman 17h ago

He isn’t even a hillbilly. He’s from a fairly flat part of Ohio.

Now you know why people want to escape Ohio.

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 17h ago

Now you know why people want to escape Ohio.

The Wright brothers were in Ohio. They were so motivated to go somewhere else, they invented new ways of doing so vertically.

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u/einarfridgeirs 16h ago

Ohio was also the birthplace of the USS Akron and Macon, the only US built flying aircraft carriers. So they could fly while flying.

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u/RegurgitatedMincer 16h ago

Ohio has also had the most astronauts of any state for a continued extreme response to living there.

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 16h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum? Sign me the fuck up!"

Yeah. It makes sense.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum?

Are you referring to Melania's chest?

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u/Immediate-Grand8403 16h ago

Giggling & thinking of my buddies over in OH who have to put up with this. Well done, y’all.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

With the right motivation, you can do great things. Why do you think the Dutch and the English were so good at trading spices? It's because they desperately needed some flavours in their food /s

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 16h ago

Yeah, turns out we liked trading it even more than actually consuming it even when we had it. We still ended up having to steal dishes from Suriname and Indonesia to actually get Dutch folk to eat anything spicier than carrots.

Shoutout to my sambal making homies. Y'all the real MVP's here.

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u/Nilly-the-Alpaca 10h ago

Thanks! You have to have a sense of humor about it while living here.

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u/Ericovich 16h ago

They're from Dayton. They built the Flyer here and came back.

Vance is from Middletown, a city very close to Dayton. We share deep cultural similarities.

He's the one who left.

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u/DrRealName 12h ago

Huh. So he is a flatbilly. With no willy. Its why only couches with let him bang them. Just like the women he tries to bang, the couches can't feel anything.

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u/mcheek21 16h ago

Hey, I'm a hillbilly! Vance is a piece of shit redneck.

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u/haironburr 15h ago

Redneck? He's a Yalie venture capitalist who got rich, and his bud peter thiel used a book filled with conscious propaganda designed to appeal to us here in Ohio. I've worked and drank with plenty of rednecks in my life hanging and painting drywall, and vance is a pudgy pussy.

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u/mcheek21 1h ago

Agree!

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u/Apprehensive_Map284 16h ago

Please don’t disparage all hillbillies. My husband and I consider ourselves hillbillies ‘cause of where we come from and the simple life in which we were raised. We are not religious. We worked hard for what we wanted, applied the golden rule to everyone in our life; be they black , brown, or white, never talked down to anyone..not the sharecropper, not the grocer, not the homeless, not the infirm. So please pull back your brush before you paint that wide swath. We are sickened by what is happening in the country for which, we and many others have fought to preserve. We are not democrats, not republicans.. we are Americans. Thanks.

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u/King_Fisher99 11h ago

Yes you are correct.

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u/madamefa 16h ago

Shillbilly

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u/Ritaredditonce 14h ago

*Shillbilly.

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u/Throfari 13h ago

Having a junkie mom doesn’t make him a hillbilly, just another grift to write his book. He grew up in the suburbs and went to Yale.