Oh absolutely LMAO. I hate how fucked our country is. I wish I could be “proud to be an American.” but… Nah. Prolly not within my lifetime, unfortunately.
I am pretty proud of the moon landings, which my lifetime just barely overlaps with. Let’s not talk about the role ex-Nazis played in that shit. Smoked brisket is pretty good, too.
I’m proud of food here in general tbh, just the way different cultures got together with different ingredients and made something wholey unique? thats cool.
Speaking of that, in spite of the racism, we’re somehow one of the better countries with accepting other cultures. Thats something to be proud of too.
You make a good point tbh. Just cause some stuff is bleak doesnt mean everything is. I can be proud where pride is due, but acknowledge the flaws and pain without hypocrisy.
Ye there’s some of that no doubt. I’ll see random comments just dunking on the US completely off-topic, or almost entirely off-topic. I saw one a few days ago that was like “This only matters for people in the US, go post it somewhere local.” and like, that’s cool and all but I don’t see anyone saying that stuff on UK specific topics or any other country’s posts to this community.
Honestly, it’s just annoying more than anything. The US isn’t some uniquely evil place. A lot of the bad shit happening here is cropping up across the world, and y’all need to learn where we failed, or else be doomed just like us. Anyway, I think if your only contribution to the topic is “US bad.” then maybe you should make a US hate community or something tbh.
I get where you’re coming from but keep in mind that it is exhausting that it seems like everything you see online is somehow about the US. I know it’s not literally “everything” but it feels like no other country takes up anywhere near this much attention, even in our own local spaces*.
This is of course a consequence of the huge impact that US politics and economy (unfortunately) have on the world in general. Which means that, whether we like it or not, we have to pay SOME attention to what the US is doing because it probably WILL affect us in some way sooner or later (potentially taking away attention from more pressing, immediate matters in our own countries). No individual person is to blame for this but the frustration we feel sometimes needs to be vented.
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btw, this overexposure of US content is one reason why over on /c/ich_iel we make it a game to avoid any English words by translating any English terms in the most inane way. Other non-English communities do similar things, afaik.
I guess I don’t understand where this frustration comes from because to me, it’s just obvious. We’re speaking English, on a primarily English-speaking website, and one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world is the US. It just makes sense probability wise that there would be more posts about the US on average. Personally I’d love to see news (especially uplifting, because life is BLEAK, and I’d like to have hope again) from other countries, but I don’t speak other languages, so I only see what people translate and post tbh.
Anyway, I’m not saying you can’t vent, or that saying “fuck the us” is wrong, I just wish people would keep it on topic, instead of looking for the thinnest reason to throw in some shade. It really reminds me of the cheap “gotcha” karma farming comments that infest reddit and make the site so unenjoyable to browse.
That’s because on Lemmy it’s cool and hip to hate on the US and people from the US.
Don’t worry.
Its also extremely cool to hate the US outside of Lemmy.
We even hating on ourselves because we know our country is fucked.
Oh absolutely LMAO. I hate how fucked our country is. I wish I could be “proud to be an American.” but… Nah. Prolly not within my lifetime, unfortunately.
I am pretty proud of the moon landings, which my lifetime just barely overlaps with. Let’s not talk about the role ex-Nazis played in that shit. Smoked brisket is pretty good, too.
I’m proud of food here in general tbh, just the way different cultures got together with different ingredients and made something wholey unique? thats cool.
Speaking of that, in spite of the racism, we’re somehow one of the better countries with accepting other cultures. Thats something to be proud of too.
You make a good point tbh. Just cause some stuff is bleak doesnt mean everything is. I can be proud where pride is due, but acknowledge the flaws and pain without hypocrisy.
hell yeah. love being cool and hip
That and the shocking number of tankies.
More like incredulity at wtf dey doin’ over dere.
Ye there’s some of that no doubt. I’ll see random comments just dunking on the US completely off-topic, or almost entirely off-topic. I saw one a few days ago that was like “This only matters for people in the US, go post it somewhere local.” and like, that’s cool and all but I don’t see anyone saying that stuff on UK specific topics or any other country’s posts to this community.
Honestly, it’s just annoying more than anything. The US isn’t some uniquely evil place. A lot of the bad shit happening here is cropping up across the world, and y’all need to learn where we failed, or else be doomed just like us. Anyway, I think if your only contribution to the topic is “US bad.” then maybe you should make a US hate community or something tbh.
I get where you’re coming from but keep in mind that it is exhausting that it seems like everything you see online is somehow about the US. I know it’s not literally “everything” but it feels like no other country takes up anywhere near this much attention, even in our own local spaces*.
This is of course a consequence of the huge impact that US politics and economy (unfortunately) have on the world in general. Which means that, whether we like it or not, we have to pay SOME attention to what the US is doing because it probably WILL affect us in some way sooner or later (potentially taking away attention from more pressing, immediate matters in our own countries). No individual person is to blame for this but the frustration we feel sometimes needs to be vented.
*
btw, this overexposure of US content is one reason why over on /c/ich_iel we make it a game to avoid any English words by translating any English terms in the most inane way. Other non-English communities do similar things, afaik.
I guess I don’t understand where this frustration comes from because to me, it’s just obvious. We’re speaking English, on a primarily English-speaking website, and one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world is the US. It just makes sense probability wise that there would be more posts about the US on average. Personally I’d love to see news (especially uplifting, because life is BLEAK, and I’d like to have hope again) from other countries, but I don’t speak other languages, so I only see what people translate and post tbh.
Anyway, I’m not saying you can’t vent, or that saying “fuck the us” is wrong, I just wish people would keep it on topic, instead of looking for the thinnest reason to throw in some shade. It really reminds me of the cheap “gotcha” karma farming comments that infest reddit and make the site so unenjoyable to browse.