Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
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I like how this meme said America twice proving that it is the greatest nation on earth and probably the universe.
I appreciate how the europoor made this meme about America.
USA! USA!
I hope one day they get to visit our glorious nation and get a taste of real freedom.
I am not going to take a plane across the ocean, just to get imprisoned, tortured and deported.
Such is the price of greatness.
Freedom isn’t free.
Wrong, it was to draw attention of Americans. Otherwise they wouldn’t read it.
Your comment says it too.
Goddamit. Got me.
You don’t even have a name. You are just some states in (the continent of) America that just happen to be united for some reason
“Columbia” was pitched but didn’t catch on, except for Washington District of Columbia
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.
I was half joking :P
My point is that one of the things that gets on my nerves (and of many people that live in America, the continent, outside of the U.S.) is that USAians call their country a plain “America”. United States of America doesn’t sound like an actual name like e.g. Panama or Brasil, and sounds more like “we are some states in the American continent that are united”
Ayo, never seen no one express opinions like these, like mine, out in the wild! They do call themselves America, despite being only part of the continent. And their uncreative name. Big brain move they had there. Like a Monty Python sketch. I could see it to the tune of the witch scene
“What are countries made of?” “Land?” “People.” “…Cows.” “A church.” … “States!” “That’s right! And where are these states?”
I like to call them 'Muricans sometimes, to differentiate 'Murica (US) and the real America, the much bigger and, thanks to other countries, generally better one.
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 :-(
I mean, isn’t this why everything you see is America dominated? Almost every major platform used by typical English speaking westerners is going to be owned and made in America and hence America focused. Combine this with the gargantuan influence America exerts on the world, I don’t think it’s hard to see why you see so much American centered things. I get this is a shit post but I always see comments like this bemoaning american over representation.
My grocery store has an icon on products that have tariffs on it, aka u.s. only. With maple leaf symbols on stuff made, or packaged in canada.
the poorest europoor is now Hungary. What 20 years of autocrat oppression does to a nation (I really hope you can beat his party at next elections, good luck from Germany <3)
Well at lest he can’t pull the Aljaksandr Lukašenka stunt and refuse to recognise the election result and have the Russian army march through the country when the people rise up.
Might have been an option if Ukraine had fallen.
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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!
stabs squid with flagpole
Ha! I think that enemy g
Lemmy has been one of the best places online for toning down the American emphasis (although I think my blacklist keywords filters help a lot with that… Highly recommended).
Lemmy has better European/Australian representation, but there isn’t much Asian or African representation though.
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.
Must be my filter list then… 200 blocked communities (mostly porn though) and 50 blocked keywords…and increasing.
It’s not even Americans talking about American politics either haha
I think reddit was more diverse, many local communities, language specific communities, etc.
Either you’ve blocked half the platform or you’re joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
It’s the first thing. Glad to see it working. I do still have to ignore a lot of USA-centric political memes and it annoys me that political content doesn’t stay in the designated political areas.
I welcome suggestions for active communities that are non-political.
Thank you for your service!
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Reddit would allow you to completely ignore USA centric content since it was so big
If you ban all communities on lemmy that are related to the USA or could have posts related to the USA, there would be less than a post a day
so instead of making a post about Europe you made another post about America?
Yeah I feel like I see way more posts/comments complaining about Americans than ones by Americans being obnoxious or self centered.
I’ve noticed a large upswing of “fuck Americans” posts recently too.
I wish all
Americanscapitalists, the US government, and their vassal States to stop making everything about America.Like I’m American but I would be literally thrilled for America to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
I’m American
*USian
How about US-American?
Yup, that works. All French-Europeans, German-Europeans and Polish-Europeans enthusiastically approve 😁
I like how there’s a post on shitposts asking if Lemmy is a CIA experiment to radicalise people into class warfare and then there’s this post. When the CIA has been funneling money into American movies and TV since 1947 to make everything about America and how great it is.
I would, but this post is about America, so I can’t make it about anything else.
Bad timing, our national day is this week.
You people are doing something big on the 4th right?
As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing shit up.
The most shared tradition ever. Celebrating no longer being british! Most of the world celebrates it at some point in the year!
First out of sixty-five.
As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing
shitup nothing of value to capitalists 😈😈😈No, I meant something fruity. Citrusy even.
Yeah, we’re gonna blow the shit out of the sky.
In the words of Dr. Glaucomflecken, “Yeah, so Fourth of July weekend is when the general public decides to dabble in explosives.”
You know you can start your own lemmy instance for EU centric topics right.
They have Internet in Europe?
I once reminded a worthless European dumbfuck that the US invented the internet, and he could only reply with “Did you though?”
To be fair, they did invent the WWW, which
- Few people can even tell apart from the Internet
- Is by far the most popular application of it
from the poorest euro poor… who probably has free healthcare and a safety net D :
Should the rest of the world have ignored Germany in the '30s?
It didn’t go so well when they did.
That’s the point they’re making
I was agreeing.
You can say the same thing about every region of the world. Why does Europe just ignore African and South American news?
Do those places present a threat to civil rights and democracy?
I mean, yes, just not immediately to us, right?
Imagine if IBM and Ford and Chase National Bank had pretended like Germany didn’t exist, rather than flooding the country with cheap capital and credit.
Give it time, the US is not relevant as it was 30 years ago and it’s cultural influence is eroding.
