The post from yesterday about the Greenland subreddit was very telling. Greenland and by extension Europe is threatened by America, Americans that don’t share the blame, sure, go to a subreddit and flood it with “sorry” posts. That pisses people actually from the subreddit because it’s counter productive, so they complain.
Suddenly Americans on Lemmy are pissed at them because how dare they get pissed at us “showing empathy”! Nah, empathy would. Be to shut the fuck up, empathy would be to recognise that flooding a subreddit with “I’m sorry” posts is annoying at best. The gall of those people to say “how date Greenland era not want us having empathy” when their actions don’t actually show it… Sickening.
Then there’s all of them that seem hurt by us outsiders lumping them all together. I get that, I get that y’all didn’t really have a choice, really. Y’all need to get that when tensions are this high, people are not gonna use the most correct wording and as the ones in risk of being invaded, they reserve the right for being impolite to all the other Americans by generalising.
The entitlement that Americans in general have that we outsiders need to consider their personal situation before generalising them when the situation is this fucking critical… No. Grow some skin and get used to be generalised if your government is the one invading, even if you didn’t have a choice. Sorry to say but bad luck, you are gonna catch some strays.
I say this as a man that has to read generalised hate towards men by women and the LGBT community because they don’t have the energy to use the most proper wording. It’s fine. Energies are high, people are venting. We are not talking about you personally.
Complaining that you catching stray shots from potential invadees makes y’all looks so much worse.
Btw, sorry if I used a lot of “you” when referring to Americans in this reply, while not referring to you, Voroxpete. I hope my wording was clear.
I said it on another post, the people of Rotterdam looking at the nazis marching on their city were not responsible for the feelings of the innocent Germans who didn’t support hitlers rise to power. These Americans who think they are so special they deserve to be grouped separately by the victims of their country are just like the people who post “thoughts and prayers” when something horrible happens.
I agree with the sentiment, but you left out a few crucial words.
the people of Rotterdam looking at the nazis marching on the rubble of what was left of their city were not responsible for the feelings of the innocent Germans who didn’t support hitlers rise to power.
I whole heartedly agree. My mind was going to before the destruction of the city started when the Nazis were still approaching leaving behind a trail of destruction as thats where we are with Greenland now. The war definitely showed the city is truely it’s people not the buildings as those were largely ruined. I’m sure even if the Americans end up occupying Greenland it will never be America in the eyes of its people.
Americans and I say this as an American. Are first and foremost retarded beyond all releasing when it comes to understanding that empty empathy and apologies are worse then saying nothing at all.
As much as it’s the stereotype to say Canadians say sorry all the time, in reality it’s Americans.
Americans will apologize for ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Because we are taught that sorry fixes everything. Words are cheap and actions are hard.
And if you tell them sorry won’t cut it, then it’s straight to being pissed and blaming everyone else. Not fixing it, not admitting empty platitudes are insulting. No no, it’s your fault for not expecting the sorry with no action to back it up.
It’s the most annoying fucking thing.
Americans need to learn to shut up, sit down, and realize if our leadership fucks up. We all fuck up. That’s the entire point of democracy. We are in this together for better or worse. If we don’t like it then we need to shut the fuck up and go actually do something about it. Words are cheap.
Yeah idk, do they not realise that what they are doing is a classic “thoughts and prayers”? With more words for sure, more polite yes but… In terms of actions, that’s it.
It was appalling to read the live reaction of so many people, the most upvoted ones ofc because American presence in Lemmy is a supermajority. Anyway, good luck.
Perfectly clear, and yeah, that’s my thoughts exactly.
It feels like a lot of them really want to be told how good and wonderful and kind and smart they are for not voting for this bullshit. But it’s not our job to make them feel better about themselves while their government threatens to hurl the world’s largest military at us.
Proving my point I see. Getting pissed because I over generalize because I don’t have the fucking energy to mind my wording is exactly what I was complaining. Bruh.
In any case, I made the distinction of America (country) and Americans (citizens) in my post. If you prefer saying United States (country) and America (group of people), it’s your problem. I did make the distinction in the wording. I don’t owe you the proper wording you prefer, specially when the wording I picked is perfectly understood writ large.
The post from yesterday about the Greenland subreddit was very telling. Greenland and by extension Europe is threatened by America, Americans that don’t share the blame, sure, go to a subreddit and flood it with “sorry” posts. That pisses people actually from the subreddit because it’s counter productive, so they complain.
Suddenly Americans on Lemmy are pissed at them because how dare they get pissed at us “showing empathy”! Nah, empathy would. Be to shut the fuck up, empathy would be to recognise that flooding a subreddit with “I’m sorry” posts is annoying at best. The gall of those people to say “how date Greenland era not want us having empathy” when their actions don’t actually show it… Sickening.
Then there’s all of them that seem hurt by us outsiders lumping them all together. I get that, I get that y’all didn’t really have a choice, really. Y’all need to get that when tensions are this high, people are not gonna use the most correct wording and as the ones in risk of being invaded, they reserve the right for being impolite to all the other Americans by generalising.
The entitlement that Americans in general have that we outsiders need to consider their personal situation before generalising them when the situation is this fucking critical… No. Grow some skin and get used to be generalised if your government is the one invading, even if you didn’t have a choice. Sorry to say but bad luck, you are gonna catch some strays.
I say this as a man that has to read generalised hate towards men by women and the LGBT community because they don’t have the energy to use the most proper wording. It’s fine. Energies are high, people are venting. We are not talking about you personally.
Complaining that you catching stray shots from potential invadees makes y’all looks so much worse.
Btw, sorry if I used a lot of “you” when referring to Americans in this reply, while not referring to you, Voroxpete. I hope my wording was clear.
I said it on another post, the people of Rotterdam looking at the nazis marching on their city were not responsible for the feelings of the innocent Germans who didn’t support hitlers rise to power. These Americans who think they are so special they deserve to be grouped separately by the victims of their country are just like the people who post “thoughts and prayers” when something horrible happens.
I agree with the sentiment, but you left out a few crucial words.
I whole heartedly agree. My mind was going to before the destruction of the city started when the Nazis were still approaching leaving behind a trail of destruction as thats where we are with Greenland now. The war definitely showed the city is truely it’s people not the buildings as those were largely ruined. I’m sure even if the Americans end up occupying Greenland it will never be America in the eyes of its people.
Stop asking us to go die as penance and people won’t be so upset :)
No one actually did in the original post. It was all about “stop flooding this small community with sorry posts”.
Suddenly those us-americans who don’t read so good understood it as “you’re at fault, please offer yourself up in a violent revolution”.
Americans and I say this as an American. Are first and foremost retarded beyond all releasing when it comes to understanding that empty empathy and apologies are worse then saying nothing at all.
As much as it’s the stereotype to say Canadians say sorry all the time, in reality it’s Americans.
Americans will apologize for ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Because we are taught that sorry fixes everything. Words are cheap and actions are hard.
And if you tell them sorry won’t cut it, then it’s straight to being pissed and blaming everyone else. Not fixing it, not admitting empty platitudes are insulting. No no, it’s your fault for not expecting the sorry with no action to back it up.
It’s the most annoying fucking thing.
Americans need to learn to shut up, sit down, and realize if our leadership fucks up. We all fuck up. That’s the entire point of democracy. We are in this together for better or worse. If we don’t like it then we need to shut the fuck up and go actually do something about it. Words are cheap.
Yeah idk, do they not realise that what they are doing is a classic “thoughts and prayers”? With more words for sure, more polite yes but… In terms of actions, that’s it.
It was appalling to read the live reaction of so many people, the most upvoted ones ofc because American presence in Lemmy is a supermajority. Anyway, good luck.
Perfectly clear, and yeah, that’s my thoughts exactly.
It feels like a lot of them really want to be told how good and wonderful and kind and smart they are for not voting for this bullshit. But it’s not our job to make them feel better about themselves while their government threatens to hurl the world’s largest military at us.
Europe is threatened by The United States, not the nation (group of culturally similar people) of America.
Proving my point I see. Getting pissed because I over generalize because I don’t have the fucking energy to mind my wording is exactly what I was complaining. Bruh.
In any case, I made the distinction of America (country) and Americans (citizens) in my post. If you prefer saying United States (country) and America (group of people), it’s your problem. I did make the distinction in the wording. I don’t owe you the proper wording you prefer, specially when the wording I picked is perfectly understood writ large.