Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
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.
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
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 :-(
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~~Superearth~~ AMERICA!!!
stabs squid with flagpole
Ha! I think that enemy got....the point!
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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.
I think reddit was more diverse, many local communities, language specific communities, etc.
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 wish all ~~Americans~~ capitalists, 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 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.
You know you can start your own lemmy instance for EU centric topics right.
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.
I would, but this post is about America, so I can't make it about anything else.
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?
You can say the same thing about every region of the world. Why does Europe just ignore African and South American news?
Give it time, the US is not relevant as it was 30 years ago and it's cultural influence is eroding.
You first. We're not on board with any of this
Americans: no.
Dude I live in the middle of the continent. I can drive for nearly 1,000 miles in any direction but north and still be in the US. not only is nearly everything about America for me, but I have nothing to do with anywhere else other than where the shit I buy comes from.
The people you need to bitch at are the enormous corporations expanding across the world like a cancer and the same federal government most of us hate too. You may have to put up with "everything being about America" but we're drowning in it, please send help.
Yep, I've posted a thread asking for some statistics for some global average of something that I couldn't find on google, and some guy linked me a statistics based on US. Smh.
Wow! Such original! So make fun!
im sure theres plenty of non English speaking communities that never mention anything US related for you to browse
Wait, is there suppose to be something else?
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