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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[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Same, I wish I could delet the English language from my brain (though I have no other language atm... need to learn Chinese) cri

Here is a oasis of human decency- well, I also know some decent people IRL I guess. But it's like living in a sea of hell. Honestly taken a major toll on me for a long time.

I couldn't agree more with every single aspect of this post. We need a great firewall, and the world needs to start sending all the worst of the burgerbrained (USians and those infected by Anglo or Euro brainrot) to uh... the great Pacific garbage patch or something, so the rest of us can live in peace.