I’m out of the loop. I know he’s seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?

Who does that help?

Edit: Yes, I see.

Edit 2: Ah jeez.

It’s exhausting having Europeans assume that because I live here I A) endorse everything about it with every fiber of my being and B) have no ability to conceptualize any other way of living at all, much less a better one than my current American lifestyle.

It’s true we don’t have a quaint medieval village on an island, but we never had invading Huns or something force us to live on a postage stamp of land and make a quaint little village there.