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.
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The loud ones seldom know wtf is going on here.
I know most do, though.
Maybe if 'Muricans kept their shit to themselves. Alas, we must hear their news and politics, and/or be affected by it somehow, even if we steppen’t in their country
steppen’t
come again?
Ok, since you ask so nicel-wait a minute… ya ain’t gon’ fool me. I stepn’t there, and even if I had, I mightn’t again
I wish I was in Europe. Where I could pretend that news about our downfall was for a time at a distance and would never affect me.
Oh don’t worry it will affect us alright, it’s just that we don’t have any say in whatever happens there.
Like any of us do? I’m just waiting for lines to be drawn where I know where I can stand.
You are a citizen of the state. You might not be able to do it alone, but it’s your mess to fix, when all other means fail (voting, institutions etc).
I do what I can in a deeply red state where putting a democratic anything in your yard or on your car gets you attacked. When the lines are drawn I will probably be in the nearest blue zone which I guarantee will draw troops. Its the plan to occupy the cities and terrorize the populace to violence. Then they are just defending themselves against ‘evil’ terrorist. Its what they did when George Floyd was killed. They incited the violence and used it as an excuse to injure and kill protesters.
You’re counting on your masters to organize you, and for the needs to be violence alone.
No I’m not. I don’t know exactly how you gathered that from my statement but you are way off.
Not so different after all 🇪🇺💞🇱🇷!
End stage capitalism comes for all nations given enough time.
Name one? The romans were not capitalists.
South Korea.
Still a democracy. They actually put CEO’s in jail there.
Sure, but the obsessive focus on econimic growth is directly responsible for their birthrate plummeting to a disasterous level. And well, they may still have a democracy and some CEO’s may see jailtime there, but I have personally heard a few too many stories about the rich and powerful over there getting away with shit. Plus the country is pretty much owned and run by Samsung.
There is something so ironic about this post xD what about the other continents? I have been told they have people with internet access too xD
Well, there are a lot of penguin posts here.
Sorry, I don’t go to feddit.org due to their censorship of Israel-critical posts. Due to moral reasons I cannot accept (though I understand) this despite being a legal requirement.
If I just have a quick look at !Europe and its recent top post, first thing I see is this and in the comments a banned user, who says recognizing Palestine as a state would be like giving the Hamas a win. So I don’t see much censorship of Israel-critical posts there. E: I’m afraid blocking this just leads to damaging discussions by not even joining them at the first place.
Thanks didn’t know this, I’m blocking them too. But to be honest, also here in .world there are many people repeating zionist propaganda with no shame.
@[email protected] [email protected] I’m Brazilian and oftentimes the “All” feed across the entire Lemmy ecosystem feels, in fact, like a smoothie mashup between European-specific political issues and USian-specific political issues, so, when it comes to the phenomenon that the European Fedizens feel on Lemmy, not only we feel the same, but we, Fedizens from the Global South, we feel it twice!
At least when it comes to sport, we speak one language
Football.
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@[email protected] Well, I’m not really into sports (I’m far detached from the stereotypical Brazilian who likes to watch Corinthians x Palmeiras/Flamengo x Fluminense/etc at Fridays while they’re gathering with their friends in a bar while drinking cachaça, I’m more of a nerdy and friendless person), but indeed, soccer/football is definitely part of a cultural aspect shared among European countries (especially Germany, Portugal and Spain, as far as I know) and Brazil (as well as other South American countries, such as Argentina).
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Okay but how do you feel about kabaddi?
Ouch.
USA is the world.
A sizeable portion of it, at the very least.
a whopping 4% by population and 1.8% by area. so, not really
The most important part though.
Only to spawn fascists.
Maybe we should build a big wall around the entirety of the US, because we don’t want you anywhere else in the world.
3rd largest country by population, 4th largest country by landmass
Actually it’s not that big lul
Lul
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ix5FImmuA
Counter-counterpoint:
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Google is also American.
Thankfully not, but it is an unfortunately large part of the world
xD
I’ve blocked quite a few very popular communities because I don’t understand their language. I’m guessing they’re still popular? Europe as a whole, seems to be quite popular (or it was, I’ve blocked them).
I’ve done the same with anything sports. if it’s sports related, it’s blocked and the one who posted it blocked as well. I want nothing to do with it.
starting to also consider anything us related too.
other languages are fine for me, I just skip past em.
You can also filter out keywords like Trump, Elon, GOP, etc. Generally this excludes shit from their little tribal conflict but retains post that could be of interest.
Yes but then it’s all German. Those guys seriously I’m a meme problem
You were getting sports?
It’s not even that I really want sports as much as that I get nothing but tech, politics, Star Trek, and memes on here unless I search for it and even then it’s not a lot.
IDK, I never browse All, basically. Funny meme, tho.
I think they talk about the USA even more over on ML tbh, but with a difference in connotations.
Increase your population, elect the worst leaders, ditch universal healthcare and other social supports, and your country can contest the US in potential topics for the All feed!
Well I suppose I’ll take that silver lining then, given how our continents going for the most part
Isn’t LW Dutch?
And if we’re just talking about All, mine seems to be predominantly porn and Germans
Which is frankly, a pretty European combo
I’m not European but I am Canadian and I don’t know if Americans realise how annoying it is that any general community like “politics” or “news” is specifically American as per the rules. I was really hoping we’d leave the US defaultism behind on Reddit
It is so annoying and it’s my biggest complaint about Lemmy. Every dang thread, the comment section is usually filled with US politics discussion even if it’s a completely unrelated topic.
I wonder if people complained about the German defaultism in 1911 or 1936.
There were complaints that any serious academic work had to be in German during the late 1800s
Let’s not bring the Netherlands into this. I can get the gist from English or German, but Dutch is right out. Weirdos.
Tell that to all the non US specific named communities created on LW, that are actually US specific according to rules.
Politics, news… All those communities are actually US specific, while having a nonUS name and being hosted on Europe. It irritates me.
c’est parce que lemmy.world (et la plupart des instances) est anglophone, donc a un biais américain/britannique
moi je propose que tout le monde parle dans sa langue maternelle, pis de toute façon les logiciels de traduction sont rendus assez bon on va pouvoir se comprendre quand même
(/j)
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Je m’en fous
Ashamed American here and I assume your comment was in French, and those are the only two things I have even the vaguest clue how to pronounce in French (but I had to look up the spelling!)
Funny enough, as you suggested, I popped your text into a translator after typing out the above and using my limited second language knowledge, and it turns out, I managed to get the general gist of it without the help of a translator!
américain/britannique
C’est compréhensible et logique, bien sûr, mais <<américain/britannique>> est douloureux à voir en tant que Britannique.
ilo pi ante toki li ken ala ante e toki pona. mi toki e toki ni la seme?
Je voudrais voir francophone « content », où sont le content francophone?
Ils sont à jlai.lu.
Opino lo mismo. Que le sufran un tantito como nos tocó sufrirle alguna vez antes de aprender inglés. 🤭
You joke, but I would welcome this.
(/j)Amigo, a tu español le falta mas práctica. Muy apenas se te entiende.
/s
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Pois é, o bagulho tá mó difícil de entender, o pessoal parece que não desembucha na hora de prosear 😅
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¿Se les quemó la lengua a los dos?
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Gute Idee. Machen wa so.
Ich hatte einige Jahre Französisch und hab sogar ungefähr gecheckt was du meinst, geil.
Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world
oui, baguette
Omelette du fromage
French just has a certain… Je ne sais quoi
Je suis un oncle d’un singe.
35-years out of French class and I parsed most of that!
Is EU not one of the distant states of USA?
My bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯
