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-8 points

USAmerican politics really seeps into every nook and cranny on the goddamn web. I’d much rather read about something happening in the rest of America than USAmerica. It gets really annoying…

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48 points

It’s because we have the least stable democracy and the most economic influence out of any country in the world

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12 points

!bestoflemmy

wait

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1 point

Read it as ‘we have at least stable democracy’, hung for a few moments

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31 points

Like it or not, these guys can duck up the entire world pretty badly. I can’t afford to ignore it, even if I don’t live anywhere near the U.S.

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What are you going to do with the knowledge of them fucking up their economy and voting for a talking orange? What’s that knowledge worth? Are you going to pull your money out of all the AMZN stocks you bought? Send a strongly worded letter to Kamala for not being more radical? Fly across the sea to assassinate an upcoming dictator?

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18 points

Why is this where your mind goes? Genuinely.

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15 points

Talking about it would be enough.

It would find it’s way to a citizen that could make a difference.

There is a reason most modern dictatorships restrict access to the the Internet.

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No yeah even most people that live here can’t do shit about it. It’s basically celebrity shit, to most people, it’s just that they’re obviously going to removed about it because it maybe tenuously has an effect on their lives. We may be cooked

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8 points

Can’t wait for this to be over. In the meantime I should set up some keyword filters in my Lemmy client

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Ah that’s actually a great idea

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I live here. I want Trump to lose this election so bad. Mostly because if he is elected, I do think there is a real danger of him abusing his power. That his policies may kill thousands of Americans again.

But also, because I am so fucking tired of hearing about every little thing he says. I wish we could go back to the not verging on the edge of fascism politics were I don’t have to hear or worry about what inane thing the most powerful person in my country has said today.

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I’m in America. I’d want that too, which is kind of the motivation - get that narcissist gone for good, and that should free up a loooooot of attention he’s stealing.

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As a USAmerican in a swing state I’m pretty sick of it too.

Imagine this shit polluting your SMS and email and postal mail and people ringing your doorbell in addition to the rest of the web.

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Considering America’s choices and influence impact every country on earth, (positive or negative), is it really a surprise?

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Does it have to be a surprise to be annoying?

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3 points

Probably not, but then it also shouldn’t come as a surprise that you being annoyed will have little impact

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-3 points

Nothing’s stopping you from reading anything else? The internet as a whole is mostly american-based, so there’s plenty out there to read about.

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The internet as a whole is mostly american-based

Well that’s a narrow-minded view…

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It is though. Not saying it should be that way or that it should remain that way, or that there aren’t internet spaces out there that aren’t American based. Just that the large majority of it is.

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Why do people keep saying USAmericans? It looks and sounds stupid, you can just say Americans, everyone will know who you’re talking about .

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Because USians didn’t stick, but their pompousness continued on. E: in the form of saying usamericans

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0 points

I prefer burgerlanders personally.

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you can just say Americans people, everyone will know who you’re talking about USA.

Fixed this for you. Kind of a pet peeve of mine when people use ‘defaults’, like everyone on the internet are in America, or if you’re talking to someone from a capital of a different country they will assume you’re also in the capital, everyone lives in America timezone, everyone using English uses en_US locale, and if by some bizarre chance you’re in another country you can only switch language and country together, etc

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2 points

Ask someone from South America

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Does anyone else in the world call them Americans? No and you know it

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OMG, how could I have forgotten that the country taking up less than a quarter of two continents, both called America, called dibs on “American”? Sorry Beta #1. I shall discard the fact that there are 34 other countries which use the demonym “American”.

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I didn’t know geographical size denoted who gets to claim being called Americans. You’re arguing in bad faith and you know it, because you know no one else in the world calls anyone else Americans except for people from the United States of America. It’s silly to argue otherwise, I’m not saying anything controversial here.

People love being anti-american contrarians on the internet even if it means being abhorrently wrong.

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