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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

ITT Europeans tell us shit we already know about changes most of us want because they don't understand gerrymandering and the electoral college

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago

"most of us want"

The recent election demonstrates that less than half of you want anything close to that.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Again betraying that you don't understand how stacked shit is... 70m is like 20% of our population.

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago

And even less than that could be arsed to vote for anything close to what "most of you" want.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

What did he say?

[mumbles only slightly more intelligibly]

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Credit scores only exist in the US. Everywhere else just compares your income to your debt.

Edit: apparently there are several other countries with credit scoring systems. The more you know... The US system, at least, is still bullshit designed to stratify economic class not only individually but by gender and with generational impact.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Literally all of south and central America use credit scores, the fuck You are talking about?

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.

[-] broguy89@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Ahem. It's TWO continents.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I've ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.

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[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

Tell that to everyone else that refers to us as "Americans," we're far from the only people to do it.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I'm willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That's just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.

That said most proposals I've seen on the subject are... silly or unwirldy. I'm not gonna call people from the US "estadounidense" (looooong) or "USAmerican" (uppercases) unless they tell me they're OK with it. I'd be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like "American" vs "Américan", since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago
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[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

Are you implying we do it out of hubris and everyone else is somehow gaslit into it or forced to?

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[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

All of your sitcoms are crap. The same recycled gags over and over. Unpleasant people who hate each other snarking, saying "oh my god" and then explaining their jokes.

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I saw something like 15 or 20 years ago saying the average "adult" (not in a sexual way) show is designed for 14 year old viewers. Our media has made so much more sense to me since then.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
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[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Americans are some of the most unintelligent people on earth

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Your (as in Americans) Imperial system of Units & measurements is a big joke & you are a British colony & you have bad cars

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I really wanted to up vote 3 times

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago
[-] ogmios@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Despite the cost of healthcare in America, the quality is generally seen as the very best there is. Canadian healthcare is so bad that anyone who can afford it will head south to actually get quality treatment, immediately. Up here a friend of my family is probably going to head to Mexico (can't afford American care, sadly) for knee surgery because the waitlist in Canada is far too long and he can't afford to be off work until it's his turn.

America certainly does have it's share of significant problems, but a huge amount of what they seem to eat up is blatant propaganda designed to erode the public's faith in their nation. There's a reason that so many Canadians move to the southern states if they can afford it.

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