Listen, mate, I'm not laughing at the dead soldiers. I don't think common people dying for the games of the powerful is even remotely funny. I'm not even defending the joke. I'm defending the ability to joke about the US. Person A was going all about how we all bandwagon on hating the US, I said we just laugh at the US because the US is powerful and all, and it SHOULD be ridiculed, just like any major power. I mean, we laugh at Russia and Poetin all the time as well.

Then everyone flipped because boo, you're European and you criticize America and I'm a filthy Eurotrash or something.

I wasn't being an asshole anyway. If you're an asshole for thinking non-Americans should be able to joke about the American government, then I'm an asshole, I will always be an asshole, and I'm gladly an asshole. I'd rather die with free speech and have Americans think I'm an asshole (who cares what you all think of me anyway, I have other things to worry about) than live as some coward who lets Americans bully me into not criticising your ridiculous foreign policy. Not that European foreign policy is any good though. I laugh about that too.

But yeah, just because I think I should be able to joke about the US isn't an excuse to assault me personally. He wasn't "making fun" of me. My friends can make fun of me. A dick on the internet calling me a virgin loser with a lazy eye, that's assaulting me as a person. Huge difference.