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if Lemmy continues to display outright hostility and toxicity towards Americans at every turn, there is virtually no chance that this platform will ever develop beyond its current fringe status.
I’ve always had thick skin and an open mind, so if I’m getting annoyed by it, my assumption is that most other Americans will find it intolerable. And although we don’t need to be a majority American site by any means, the sheer numbers dictate that if Americans find this site intolerable, it will never achieve mainstream success.
And if I hear one more fucking person say that America only joined World War 2 after it was already over, or that we were cowards for not joining sooner, I swear to God I’ma start criticizing the metric system again
In the comments that led to this post:
I’m American, and the fact that people would accuse me of being a Russian troll is deliciously ironic to me 😂. For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn’t something I can say about many of you.
another example of circlejerking Europeans doing everything they can to ensure no American would ever want to use Lemmy by acting like morally superior douchebags.
America controls the world, and Europeans are salty about it. I didn’t even realize how salty until I started using Lemmy
a symptom of the relatively larger proportion of Europeans on this site, and their obvious jealousy and insecurity regarding Americans. I still believe that is the most likely explanation.
The number of times that I have seen people refer to the American contribution to WWII as cowardice, meaningless, etc, is too damn high. 400,000 Americans died in that war. Read a fucking history book you ignorant, insensitive fucks.
Some people are smarter and think more independently, while most tend to accept the dominant narrative, because thinking for yourself is emotionally and mentally draining. I would bet my left nut that the average lemming is smarter than the average redditor.
Ultimately, it’s up to the more intelligent people to determine what is true and false, and the best way to do that is through open, uncensored debate.
i'd like to quote from the classic work by miroslav:
I wish no harm to the american ruling class, my enemy is the american people
Neither Lemmy as a whole nor Hexbear specifically are anti-american enough, frankly. US defaultism is still thoroughly rampant, every conversation must be assumed to be about America unless you specify otherwise.
Style guide for American socialists (under threat of being shipped to Alaska under the USSA regime):
- no more "us" or "we" when referring to the United States government. Just call it "the United States government"
- no more "Americans", "USians" or "US Americans" in polite company. In casual conversation take a slur of your choice from Maoist Standard English.
Disagree with the first bullet point on account of the second. May I suggest "Burgerland government" or "settlers in chief"?
P.S. I'm lib brain for just renaming things instead of fixing them
Cracker is of course the functional specification for the associated cultural characteristics, but it can apply to any fitting person from any white western country. This is why the maoist dictionary specifies that slur for the Amerikkkans are limited to the set referring to the geographical area+cracker pehnotype and culture.
Americans aren't prosecuted enough actually.
Also I didn't check if someone else already made this exact same comment at the time of writing.
came to post this
if they are allowed to cry about it we definitely have too much free speech for usaians
"how dare you criticise the glorious burger reich!"
Also, isn't that the instance with the shitty Nato fanpage? How are these boot fuckers too anti-American for this scratched lib?
"I've always had a thick skin which is why I made a post crying about people making fun of my shitty country"
And if I'm bothered, just think of the poor silent majority who aren't as tough as me!
america making its own great firewall after everyone else on the internet was mean to them
euros once again baring butt with the "we hate everyone equally" defense.
Imagine feeling personally attacked when someone shits on America. Even Americans hate America.
The number of times that I have seen people refer to the American contribution to WWII as cowardice, meaningless, etc, is too damn high. 400,000 Americans died in that war. Read a fucking history book you ignorant, insensitive fucks.
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If a shitload of Americans died in a war, then it was an unparalleled heroic sacrifice. If a shitload more communists died in the same war, it's because of lol savage brainpan, human wave tactics
"400,000 of you died? Wow sucks to suck, maybe get good at fighting?"
Of course, having a human wave charge up a beach into machine gun emplacements is not a human wave at all.
It's not just a shitload more communists that died, it's around 50 times as many. American losses make up just 0.5% of the deaths in WWII - and that's excluding the Holocaust.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
From a comment the admin made in the thread
That’s fair, but somehow I never seem to see hatred directed towards any other nationality on Lemmy, aside from Americans. It seems like such behavior would inevitably be downvoted, as it should be.
there are literally comments with anti-china and russia brainworms in his thread
But when it comes to Americans, it’s open season for people to take pot shots, and it always gets upvoted regardless of its accuracy.
its almost like its the worlds hegemony or something
You all seem to implicitly think I’m somehow proud or bragging about America being the largest economic and military force in the world. That’s not even remotely the case, I think it’s entirely fucked. But that’s the world we live in. I’m just trying to explain what I’ve experienced and observed here, and understand what is causing that behavior.
proud enough to make a post crying about the oppresion of americans on lemmy
from another comment
You’re lucky that I even bother to respond, unlike the thousands of Americans who silently perceived that they weren’t welcome on this site and slunk back to reddit.
omg he is such a loser
The dude literally hosts a community that "jokes" about using nuclear and chemical weapons on Russia, regularly calls them slurs and another community specifically designed to screenshot anyone they don't like to target them for harassment and American's are the ones who are oppressed. Fucking yikes.
