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  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "Nationals" conjures an image of being detached from a normal context somehow. You never use it to describe people who were born in a country, who still live there, under a regular-old government. You'd never call a French person in Paris a "French national," for instance. It's almost always used to describe someone from Country A living in Country B, and there's often some temporary status or unusual circumstance attached (e.g., they fled from their home country for political reasons).

    It's textbook Othering in this case.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      3 years ago

      New bit: use all of the Western propaganda bits such as this but on American news

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        you could honestly do a whole site that just rewrote the wire services articles this way

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        "The Biden Regime Hoards Vaccines for American Nationals, Refuses to Lift Crushing Restrictions on Manufacturing Abroad"

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      It has real "regime" vibes. National is to Citizen as Regime is to Administration; one is the scary Bad Country, the other is the safe Good Country.