Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.
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Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
Well, someone bringing USA into conversation was absolutely expected since it was news community.
The reason I got butthurt and made this post is because how it was brought into conversation, like you know, some "wise observer" perspective, but from someone who couldn't be really characterized as wise.
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Unfortunately America is relevant to most of the world rn. Wish it wasn't though
It's relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.
Go online however and you'd think it were.
The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the "default" country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you're talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.
... unless it's about the USA of course, then you don't need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the
US of A! This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they're special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be... you know... descriptive and helpful.
That's not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don't know your local regional internal place names.
Oh, you're from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren't country name abbreviations. Oh, you're from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo...oh, London.... Texas?
️So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don't have any of the traits I've described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they're the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others
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Thank you for drawing my attention. How about you bask in the glory of our democracy and freedom? Learn a thing or two. Buy a gun. For
SuperearthAMERICA!!!stabs squid with flagpole
Ha! I think that enemy got....the point!
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Ha! I think that enemy g
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Yeah whereas the old guy didn't planned to send all those bombs, it was just an oopsie /s
Fucking genocide apologist scum
Do you know what ethnic cleansing is?
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
Then don't be such an enabler europoor.
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I am not going to take a plane across the ocean, just to get imprisoned, tortured and deported.
Such is the price of greatness.
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
im sure theres plenty of non English speaking communities that never mention anything US related for you to browse
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Blaming America is relevant. Whining about their domestic politics when the part guy sent as much bullet as the new one is inhumane and tone deaf. Real people are fucking dying
Youre a little moron piss baby, cry.
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Such is the price of greatness.
Freedom isn’t free.
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Sick, I live in the middle of the continent as well! I can also drive 1 mile in each direction and still be in the united states, so must live super close! But I'm a little confused why you use miles? Everybody I know always uses km here in Germany
Okay dumbass, nobody is throwing a tantrum over units other than you. Why are you so pathetic, would you like to tell us?
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I think reddit was more diverse, many local communities, language specific communities, etc.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah, but enshittification started getting to Reddit and it was a wise choice to not stay to see how it goes further, as it will become more and more corporatized.
With Lemmy my problems are only with opinions developers have (spoiler: pro-Russian tankie transphobes). But idea of Lemmy and work put into it still deserve respect.
So as for now I just hope my compatriots will catch up on Fediverse eventually (Mastodon is already quite popular).
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Yeah, but enshittification started getting to Reddit and it was a wise choice to not stay to see how it goes further, as it will become more and more corporatized.
With Lemmy my problems are only with opinions developers have (spoiler: pro-Russian tankie transphobes). But idea of Lemmy and work put into it still deserve respect.
So as for now I just hope my compatriots will catch up on Fediverse eventually (Mastodon is already quite popular).
Sure, I was just commenting about the us-centricity of lemmy.
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
We will literally go to war with everyone else in order to ensure that everything is always about us
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Freedom isn’t free.
We put the dom in freedom, and also the dumb.
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Must be my filter list then..... 200 blocked communities (mostly porn though) and 50 blocked keywords.....and increasing.
please share this list of words and communities!
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Honestly no, I think it's worse here. I blocked so many communities because they're just about US politics, but that stuff is still everywhere, even in generic meme communities.
It's not even Americans talking about American politics either haha
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We are united because no individual state in the union has the capacity to become the world's largest economy or sole superpower. Together we managed it.
California alone is the 4th largest economy on the planet. It's GDP is larger than Japan...
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please share this list of words and communities!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It won't let me copy/paste the list out of this boost app. As you come across content, keep adding words that are specific to USA (e.g. Trump, POTUS, senator, constitution, NBA, superbowl), don't add words that are likely to catch other content from other parts of the world (e.g. president, democrat). Communities should be self-evident that are focussed on American content.
I refuse to use any social media app or news app that doesnt have a blocklist. I'd recommend Boost for a Lemmy app and Pluma for an RSS news app.
I probably see more American content than I am putting across, but with training my brain to skip/ignore American content, I'm not too bothered by what I see now.
I would also recommend blocking other things you might fond repetitive or annoying (I don't want endless content about Israel, Ukraine, police brutality, Apple products, etc) and I block all of this stuff too. Lemmy has enough content now to still show plenty of posts with all that blocked. You just need to be sure to browse "all".
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
Um Bugs Bunny is American!
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
aw, it's like a bunch of dudes with tiny penises coming together for mutual sympathy.
