It's simply too much for them

A woman not wearing a bra?
Drinking under 21?
Smoking?
No fat people?
No flags?
Odd sunglasses wearing style?

I comprehend cleavage

Is it….sarcasm?
- It's dirty lungs and the stench of smoke ruining a beautiful moment is what it is

I think it's about mixed use zoning, medium density, walkable car free streets. And perhaps drinking under the age of 21 but not so sure on the last one.
Too funny Reading the comments from Americans insisting they comprehend but then saying it's just about drinking and smoking lol

The smoke definitely is too much for me, at least.
It was the worst part about living in China, too. Can't go anywhere public without just being overwhelmed by the stench of cigarette smoke because everyone is a smoker.
When I once told a coworker I didn't smoke, they thought I had some sort of condition. Like people couldn't even imagine it was just a preference.
- Yeah, smoking bans and discouraging it is absolutely something the US done very well. It's one of the few american things I'm envious of.
  
  I think laws like that wouldn't pass now. It'd be seized as ammo for the culture war and anti-smoking would be woke and all that.
  
  German here, albeit not a (tobacco) smoker. The only places where you can lawfully smoke nowadays are public spaces and specifically designated areas on private properties, which are also physically separated from the non smoking areas.
  There are also some Kneipen (roughly equivalent to pubs) which allow smoking anywhere inside, catering to the smoking demographic; although those tend to be frequented by older people who are used to smoking while having a drink. Well there are also the alternative places which definitely have a younger clientele, some allow it anywhere some don't (and have a designated area outside as most other places do).
  Ultimately though I believe we have a fair compromise going; and i am always taken aback by people being zealously anti tobacco anywhere, with no regard for individual liberties. Who then throw up their hands when I ask for a ban on personal cars.
- So glad I quit. Think it’s been 5 years now. Not precisely sure why but I don’t get cravings and usually feel revulsion when thinking about it, which is different from my first quit attempt
  
  Mental setting is pretty much everything in nicotine withdrawal - at least in my experience
  Physically it just doesn't do much
- I also had to fake smoking on occasion in China, to avoid offending people. I then learned I could accept an offered cigarette and "keep it for later". By the time I left China though, "I don't smoke" had become pretty acceptable.
- When were you there? I live in Shanghai and people still smoke but it’s really less and less every year. Probably similar to European levels now I think, and it’s usually older men.
  
  Feels like yesterday, but scary to think it was almost 10 years ago. This was near Fuzhou.

That people are still smoking in 2025 given the verified risks involved?
You're right, that is incomprehensible
- Yeah that's a big no for me. I sometimes meet people i haven't seen in 10 years or so and they all pull out cigarettes and i'm always a bit shocked and like: oh, we're still doing that? Gross.
- Even with my vape, I move away from other people.
- It’s addictive that’s why.
- France moment
  
  France somehow went from everyone smokes everywhere to no one smokes anywhere bavk to most people smoke some places.
- Less time in the shit-show, a win in my book.

Yes, please lump all of us into the same category of ignorant hicks. I mean we are all so alike.
- Couldn't the same be said about Americans calling them Europeans? Heck, even within Italy alone there is a lot of variation.
  It is natural that you stereotype, ESPECIALLY in a sarcastic instance like yurop
  
  You mean how you just called people from the United States Americans? Maybe you forgot about Central and South America? There are 35 countries on this side of the pond. Also, there is a LOT of variety in the US. We have over fifty dialects and arguably more. We have people that are native German speakers (with several unique dialects and daughter languages, Latinos that are native Spanish speakers (along with many dialects and daughter languages from many countries as well), Native Americans with MANY cultural and linguistic differences from Alaska to South America.

What am I not comprehending?
- IDK, it reminds me of my college days in the US.
- How we are all the same, the American mind cannot comprehend that
- People actually socilazing without fucking phones.
  
  Do you think we don't do that in the US? The only thing that stands as different in this pic from the downtown area near me is all the cigarettes and stucco.
  
  I guess this image was captured with a palantir then?

As an American, the only thing in this picture you wouldn't see at a trailer park are the fancy shops and restaurants in the background. Also the girl in red would be 450lbs (204kgs).
- Trailer parks, the pinnacle of US urbanism. I can get on board with that.

We are all impoverished in America. That lady in the dress, man. God damn.
- 🤤

I don't get what I'm not supposed to comprehend. I suppose you can say I'm not comprehending.
- Drinking in public...i guess? Or just having enough disposable income to go to a restaurant?
  
  Having public spaces where lots of people hang out instead of TGI Fridays
  
  Probably the socialized healthcare

Comprehend what? Smoking in public? Drinking in public? Maybe eating in public? Have you not heard of Las Vegas or New Orleans that shit is everywhere. It is also prevalent in many small towns where the local populace has decided fuck it. I worked in a small town bar after they banned smoking indoors in public places but you would never have known because no one gave a fuck and did it anyway.
- Maybe it's the walkable historical street, like a lot of American towns have these days?
  
  It could be, I have one in my town.

I'd say this shitpost hit its mark
- 🌝
  
  Personally, I’d say it’s long overdue that Europe reduces its reliance on the US. I am curious if it bothers you though, how much time you seem to spend thinking about America when I can assure you, the bulk of the population in the United States gives almost no thought to Europe at all?
  There’s a reason the expression “Americans think 100 years is old, Europeans think 100 miles is far.” exists. The US is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Europe is approximately 10,180,000 sq km. Americans are too busy worrying about their own country. Why you even care about them at all is baffling. I would think you’d want them to go back to being isolationist.

Americans thinking the bad part of this is the smoking when it's really the Marbella French restaurant charging you eight bucks for a side of mashed potatoes.
In their defense, there are few minds who can comprehend that one. Nuking this place from orbit could very well be the rekindling of US/Europe military collaboration.

Can't comprehend what? Proceeds to focus on a single element of the photo and contextualize it within American culture

Are there proper-sized portions of food being served somewhere in this photo that I haven’t found?
- Hint: there are proper-sized people
- Yeah the lady has every European's favourite breakfast in her right hand duh 🙄

That dress though 😩
- What's wrong with the dress? If You could pull it off, wouldn't You wear it?
  
  I think they want to pull the dress off her.
  
  Nothing is wrong with it. Pretty sure the 😩 means they down bad

What, all the cigarettes? I dot get it lol

Americans understand tourist traps better than anyone.
- I hate to break it to you bud but walkable streets are built all over the world. This isn't a tourist trap this is just what non car centric cities look like.
- It's not for tourists, those places are packed of locals too

Nah, we know about drugs in public. Silly Billy

As someone who lives in México City... I hate each and every store that sets their tables and chairs on the sidewalk since we have a constant flow of cars and they take away the only safe-ish path for the rest of us.
- You're barking up the wrong tree

A pair of douchebags spending their parents money?
- Americans can't comprehend not living your 20s with medical and student loan debt up to your neck that forces one to borrow from relatives or work multiple shitty jobs. Financial independence is not "freedom" enough, I guess.
- They're in their 20s in a cafe, they're probably spending own money.