Well sure. But that’s also because everyone else learned how to use English to communicate. So it FEELS like we’re all American. It’s a common thing in online spaces.
Maar als we allemaal terug zouden gaan naar onze eigen taal, voelt het hier een stuk minder Amerikaans.
I’ve literally had lengthy English conversations with other Dutch people online where we only figured out we were both Dutch twenty comments later :D
>US News — Midwest.social
>look inside
>it’s Russians
Was just permabanned from Ask Lemmy for explaining Russian and Chinese bots (bots are slaves). FYI did you know it’s totally okay for Russia and China to have slaves and engage in expansionism and election interference? Slaves are TOTALLY COOL and fine if they are Russian or Chinese, even if that means Russia or China expands into new territories and enslaves new people👍 Disliking slavery and war makes me a US propaganda shill somehow, even though the US is also explicitly pro-slavery (13th amendment) and pro-warfare and is operated by a Russian asset so all US propaganda these days IS Russian propaganda
Oh they actually specified “US”? Usually they just ramble on about the generic West.
Maybe the problem is that in Europe our news are mostly in local languages. So, if I post something I would need to translate. Or one would need to share something from France24 (English), BBC, Euronews (English), etc. But, the content is not as comprehensive as the national newspapers…
It makes me laugh when Europeans makes these comments. If you want to see more European centric content… post it. Its free to do.
People write as though Americans need to stop interacting with the platform, when the solution is really to increase European engagement, which falls on them to do.
There’s a beautiful sweet spot between the Americans going to bed and the Germans waking up where Its not US politics but I can still understand whats being said.
These are my current muted words, got more on my mastodon account
Yup
why is it decapitated
Just a haircut.
Meme template.
Trump will probably give Alaska to Putin tomorrow.
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Sometimes my feed is like half German memes
Lol, I just translate them and laugh along with em.
I’m American, sorry.
Now do it in German 😆
Müssen drücken diese Nummern hoch,
das sind Anfänger Zahlen.
I am enjoying the riceballs much more than the Presidential idiocy randomiser.
I deliberately subscribed to them lol
ICH IEL
Ich lerne gerade Deutsch lol
Ḯ̶̟͙c̶͔͌̅͜h̶̦̪̔̀ ̵̹̉l̶͓̝̽e̷̖̘̎̉r̴̼̭̾͛n̸̞̐e̴͗̈͜ ̴͔͆g̵̼̭̃ë̶̮͂ṙ̸̡̲͋a̸̯͗̀d̸̛͙̠̀e̷̻͊̑ ̵̱̼̌s̸͚̑̌w̴̹͕͊̑e̸̩̤͑d̷͚̲̈́͑į̴͈͒͑s̴̖̍̇h̴̯̫͒̒ ̵̤͍̈͆m̸̲̳̈́ė̴͙͚̏ạ̸̎͜t̸̳̹̄̉b̶̧͌a̶̖͌̕ĺ̶͙̠̑l̵͉͇̐ ̷̟͜͝D̶̞̪̈́͛e̶̛͕͎u̵̟̱̍t̴̰̔̊s̴͓̀c̴̜̖̎h̴̛͈̪ ̶̣͛l̸̟̖̈́̓o̸̥̕l̸̜̪̇͐
Translated it to danish for you.
Mein Beileid
Mit ich ieL? Oh, oh, oh.
The perks of federation.
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Nah, just block the ich_iel community. The rest is majority English
be eurotrash
bored and want to see what the Internet is up to since I last looked 30 seconds ago
login to lemmy from my eurotrash instance
check lemmy.world for news
all this US
garbagerubbish!bollocks.mpeg
makes a post complaining about US posts and ignores everything else going on in Europe
am we doing this right?
Splendid!
Jolly good!
Mint
Bueno!
Bratwurst!
Kielbasa!
Dobre!
“worldnews”: American local news
It ain’t even local news. What we have now, is anybody’s guess.
Corporate shitheel news.
Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer
If anyone is allowed too much power, like billionaires, or any anti-democratic institution likefor-profit corporations get too big, you do not have a democracy-federated or not. It’s like trying to judge the flavor of a sandwich after dipping it in human shit-it mightve been a good or bad sandwich before, but no sandwich is good like this.
As the technologies of control get more sophisticated, you’ll find more and more that any attempt to have democracy without metaohorically decapitating those problems just means more resources are turned to those technologies, more of society and its mechanisms seem convoluted and inscrutable.
“worldnews”: only in Ohio
It’s not even “news” - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.
Ahhhh…I get you…like the World Series.
It’s also nice when they come into our country-specific subs to tell us how things are in the US, as we get so little news about the US.
I hear more news from the US than my own country. Granted, my own country’s politics are people respectfully discussing policy matters while US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined, with unimaginably high stakes.
US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined
Don’t ever look into Indian politics. It will fry your brain.
we only have dirty corrupt diddlers on each level of hierarchy. The prime minister is a “gyaan raat bhar, kaam jhaant bhar” kinda guy. The media is sold. The opposition lacks strength. Politicians get way too much power for doing Literally nothing.
I believe India is in “USA but 50 years ago if smart phones were present” kind of situation
The recent ECI scandal only hammers this point harder.
and this will become a meme soon enough and everyone will forget about it. Indian politics is dirty
Andhbhakts are already at it. Whataboutism at its finest when you look at their “arguments” and “points”. Seriously, I wonder why so many people are so deluded? Is the Cult of Personality really so strong with BJP? Seems like it.
I think in north india, we seem to bind our identity with a politician or a party and start justifying everything they do. Plus the lack of awareness in the masses is never a good thing.
The country is groups of giant flocks of sheeps.
As an Indian, very much agreed.
À ce rythme là, ce serait préférable que le cirque nucléaire au sud.
At this rate, it would be preferable to the nuclear circus South of the border. Where can I read more?
I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.
Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.
Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?
be the change you want to see in the .world
People don’t post or comment and wonder why there is no content relevant to themselves
It’s a mystery /s
We do, it is just that Americans flood even country-specific subs to make it about them.
We know your country sucks, you don’t have to remind us every time we open the internet.
It’s like that one time, when Trump… *Family Guy cutaway gag*
That you say “your country” immediately reveals your own bias to assume that everything you see is American.
You probably think everyone posting is male as well.
Even I think this despite being a canadian woman.
SPRICH
Sort by new and you’ll find it’s a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.
Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can’t speak German, and there’s zero chance I’m learning German at 37.
Why zero chance?
The complexity, probably. I am decent in French, rudimentary Spanish. I think I’d go about getting a better handle on those before German. And then, if I choose to step away from the romantic languages, it’s probably for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. So I shouldn’t say zero, zero isn’t real, but it’s close to zero.
So it’s not some anti-german thing. Ich habe einen Bruder, I’ve got a little German, my girlfriend in high school took it, but I just don’t see it in my future. In fact, besides working and taking care of my family until I die, I don’t see much else.
It’s a weird ass language. When you start, it feels easy because rules are rigid. Then you try to build longer sentences PROPERLY and you feel that it is cumbersome. Finally you try to talk to native speakers, and you see that native speakers also think it is cumbersome and they omit 50% of rules in dailyspeak. Then, your brain turns into a mush which cannot decide if past is ok here or do I do perfekt to not look like a posh journalist. Do I use genitive like a properboi or dativ like a correct streetboi? Oh wait, they call it Cola (female) in Germany but Cola (male) in Austria? Wait what? it’s not country specific but much more local than that and you can be wrong while in a car?
It’s a mess.
