I Should Be Able To Mute America (www.gawkerarchives.com)

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As the US elections draw near, I must once again bitch about being subjected to US cultural hegemony.

It's so fucking exhausting folks. Please, God, somebody invent the "Mute America" button. I would genuinely get one of those brain chips implanted in my head if it would allow me to smoothly silence any content about US politics.

As a weakling who only speaks two languages, I am cursed to either suffer my home country's discourse (which, trust me, is just as brainrotten as the US's if not more), or to stay in the anglophone media space where America reigns supreme. Nowhere is safe. There is no dark corner where I can hide from Trump's dementia-ridden quotes, or Gamers4Harris, or whichever way Musk is embarrassing himself this time, or the general attitude of people regularly forgetting that the world - and more specifically their online audience - does not all live in the US.

The world should institute a reverse Great Firewall to contain American discourse within the physical boundaries of the 50 states, like the dangerous infohazard that it is.

Please. I beg for mercy. We have suffered enough.

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[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

This is honestly the first reason why I came to hexbear. Every other social medís is FLOODED. Literally 80% of the times opening reddit/.world, "JAYTEE BANZ" and "KLANMALA HORRORS" and "LE ORANGE DRUMPF". It's seriously unbearable, exhausting, and it's been going for what feels like an eternity. Thanks y'all for being a relatively safe space from all of that

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty much. Even IRL in "progressive" spaces I've had to hear (and argued over it) shit like "Chinese TCM eat tigers" (yes, that actually happened) and "they're so racist, they'll spit on minorities" (also heard in same discussion actually, alongside "friend of a friend is getting oppressed for LGBT" with no details) and the "but HK/rogue Taipei/poor oppressed Uyghur militant-Wahhabis." (multiple times)

Fuck the cracKKKerverse (and it's a state of mind, decent white people are comrades and 100% welcome, hell my partner and many though not all friends are white). Fuck this shit so infinitely much.