i get finding US politics in your feed annoying. just don’t react with harrasment and name calling and we are gucci. 👍
edit 2: no this is not inspired by recent events and if u feel the need to attack me in the comments below u are part of the problem 🤨 im literally just sharing le funny image and asking for a lil more kindness online stop it stop it stop it
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As if Australia and the rest of the anglosphere aren’t trying to speedrun US-style enshittification. Y’all better watch your backs.
we have a head start at least 😎 come and catch me if you dare
While they say that misery loves company, I must disagree.
PLEASE STOP. TURN BACK NOW. THIS IS NOT THE WAY.
Signed,
Disillusioned AmericanI literally left and the weirdest thing has been how familiar it all is
Oh, please! What problems can you possibly have in Australia, which kangaroo to vote for to be king of hippity-hop? /s
Personally I think the “Nothing ever changes so don’t even try” demographic is more annoying.
1000 times this.
“Umm agchallee, the US is an oligarchy like china so best to just shit talk anyone calling for change 🤡”
Am (immigrant) American and i def understand the frustration others feel seeing our dirty laundry aired in all the public spaces. On a selfish note, however, if thats what it takes for people to take action or at the very least vote either here or literally any other country, then so be it.
Also this meme is funny. Cant help it, great format.
I live outside the anglosphere so I don’t even understand the text lol
Buongiorno
Gleichfalls!
i think us politics being posted everywhere is what’s annoying. do you even notice how they are everywhere? i dont see thousands of memes about australian elections.
if you want to post about your local politics on international platforms, you got to handle ppl telling you they dont know anything about that. you can always go to dedicated us politics spaces, if it bothers you so much.
please! by all means i encourage non-us users to post about their local politics in international spaces (where community rules allow it of course).
i promise i won’t give a shit or troll in your comments section because i fully recognize the value of such activity! :)
edit: and genuinely if you need to block me or other us-centric accounts, do it. just stop fReaking harrasing me and calling people names it’s not the solution.
Nah i think the solution is not, everybody spamming communities with their local politics that have no international value.
The solution is, to post things that matter to everyone in shared communities and to either not post the rest or create communities for those topics.
that’s a fair position to have as well.
I think it just depends, for example its good to get attention to things like the abortion situation in the US, or the recent semi legalization of cannabis in Germany. These are things that either directly or indirectly affect lots of people outside of the respective country.
But yeah, its just impossible to “objectively” decide what is important / relevant to many people and whats not.
i mean, politics in the united states are most of the time a beautifully intricate deadly trainwreck…
anyhow, sub-communities should be the answer, if you had to live in the country to grock it, then you better post it in there instead of on the broadest possible channel… not implying that op did use the broadest channel possible or by choice, im just walking by and seeing all this from a-far, i surely do hope you all finally get out of there though… good luck with that from the depth of my heart. but yeah probably just in the community-of-choice, the place-to-be, most people know where and what the us is, so why not? …
i mean, i dont mind it, but i wouldnt mind moving it into the intricate deadly or trainwreck communities either, your choice really. :P
again, i hope a miracle happens and karl marx himself reassembles himself, one last time to punch all fascists in the face… or something, idk, i havent got a clue and i dont really care how the us gets out of its messes but good luck. and sure it might affect me eventually, but what am i gonna do about it except tell you mundane things like: how about you accept more than one party into the government like germany for example?
perhaps in germany everything takes longer, but at least they (refering to the bundesrepublik here) didnt have to start any wars or do any coups… i think, i hope… i am kinda living under a rock, pls be kind but do educate, cuz either would be nuts
I like and appreciate your style. thank you!
Do you have any idea how many news articles we have to read about your insane election system that has campaigning for 3/4 years instead of normal countries that campaign for 2 months? Like the entire campaign seasons of Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, and Spain, take up combined less time every 4 years than the US’s primaries do.
i’m so sorry you have to deal with that. im simply asking not to he harrased and trolled in response to that situation.
Fair fucks to you, but I don’t think the following-with-a-trumpet meme is the right medium for that kind of nuanced message.
really valid, thanks
Fair, harassment / trolling in a harassing way is never an ok response, but people are allowed to be critical of too much American content overwhelming a community. Americans may think everything that happens in those 3 campaigning years matter but the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily.
You can block the communities/instances that such content is posted to often, or you can try a content filter to filter out posts you don’t want to see.
Being annoyed at US-centric posts on a US-based social media website is a little silly, I think. I do get it, though
thank u! and i will never deny anyone the opportunity to be critical of US content 💪🤪 (i edited the post a little bit to hopefully reflect my sentiment a bit better)
Yes, but also the reverse: please preface some things with your geography to add context and be mindfull about foreigners. This is not an American subreddit. Some things are handles differently around the earth and some people don’t want to be presumed to be from your neck of the woods.
this is fair and definitely something i sort of have tried to ensure in the past and can double down on in the future
that being said resorting to insults seems to be the number one way people combat this annoyance which i really don’t approve of
… are you bitching about that guy who said ‘you should do ranked ballots?’
Or just the fact an Australian used G-rated rude words when making their point?
no
Dude, we can see your post history. Exactly one Australian said “imagine not having some form of preferential voting, catch up idiots” and you called it “disgusting and disturbing.” And now you’re labeling image macros with alternating-caps mockery of that wholly desirable improvement for democracy.
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not bitching, asking to be considerate, as the title says
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using australia was more of an example/placeholder which i do recognize could be wrongly interpreted so thanks for calling that out i have edited the post to be more inclusive thank u
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OP is a child who is crying out after one australian called them out . Maybe try keeping US politics to one of the many US politics only sub OP ?
ms gurl i see comments that do stuff like in the post every day on here, thanks for the personal attack tho 🧚💖✨
Your welcome
Americans don’t even know where <country> is or whether it’s a city or not…/s
erm pretty sure it’s in <continent> 🤓☝️
Lol “context of their political system” == warmongering
And what do you propose we, as citizens, do about this?
Revolt for starters. But the problem is you’ve been systematically dumbed down, so most your citizens do not even acknowledge your country’s main business is war. That’s one of the reasons why everyone on the internet makes fun of the US.
good job you are the trumpet kid in the pic lol
Good job you are:
What bothers me is that they never mention context. They just start talking about laws or whatever in a random sub and never even bother to mention that they are from america. The rest of the world just doesn’t exist for americans.
And when you mention how other countries are doing better and USA should copy them (like having ranked choice voting to rid the two-party system), Americans will either pretend they didn’t hear that or will go “wE aRe tOo dIvErSE fOr tHaT sHeEiItT”. I was told by someone that Americans generally do not want adopt a system from outside unless they made it themselves. So I guess nationalism also plays a role, too.
Lol there is a subreddit where they only post public disturbances in public transport, and I said 100% of the videos are from america, this doesn’t show public transport is bad. It just shows how bad america is. Boy did they get mad.
Or, like this post, they lash out and tell you to mind your own business. And assume you know nothing about their system, just because Americans don’t care about anyone else’s.
It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion and you just can’t look away.
when you see this happen by all means please call it out. americans deserve to be knocked down a peg in their presumption that they are the only country represented online.
my only ask is once again not to do it by insult.
Oh I understand it alright.
I understand that you guys are FUCKED, and since my country is in the US’s sphere of influence, eventually so will we be fucked.
good so maybe this understanding of the situation will give a sense of empathy not to open conversations with personal attacks
I’ll dunk on Americans, but only and exclusively when they are ranting about how EVIL other international powers are.
It has little to do with your election cycle and lots to do with the fact that your CIA destroyed my country’s future twice, both in lived memory, one I was already an adult for. You could say I have a vendetta. :3
based and chad-maxxed
i get finding US politics in your feed annoying.
No mate, I don’t think you bloody well do get it. I loathe that I am from a country that speaks the same language. Your country’s backwards, hateful culture leeches it’s way into mine. You will never understand what it’s like dealing with that. It’s not annoying, it is emotionally and mentally exhausting. As a trans person it hurts so much to see my siblings there fearing for their lives. Hearing about children being massacred again, and again, and again while nothing is done to stop it. Worrying that my country will be dragged into another war in Asia by your government (only country that’s joined you on all your stupid expeditions since Korea). You won’t ever get it because you’re just a filthy seppo. Now could you stop acting like you’re special in my feed please?
try fucking living here.
(to be clear, you are the one who once again escalated this to name calling and personal attacks. so i apologize if this message comes across as strong but i feel it is warranted.)
i am so sorry you feel personally offended when i try to communicate potentially life saving political nuance and debate with people on what i understand to always have been a majority-US community* every once in a while. it must be a huge huge emotional burden to see that on your screen. i suppose you never considered that there are actual human beings living through this shit. actual human beings fucking dying because of this shit. that’s nothing, nothing compared to having to see it from your little meme and news website huh?
to be clear, i do not seek to minimize your experience. your emotional journey through this modern hellscape is valid. period. with no caveat.
but don’t use your negative emotional experience to justify hateful and dismissive of my lived fucking material reality.
i’m going to more or less clear out the post because a) i don’t think it’s very funny (my one true failing i am sorry 😓) but b) i don’t really like being continuously called names (shocker, i know). also c) im worried all of your personal attacks and shit is going to upset the mods, whom i hugely respect and don’t deserve to deal with such things.
good job, you bullied me into submission. once again, i reiterate the title of this post, which it’s utterly clear never sank in. be considerate. please.
*could be wrong on this, please correct me if so
Bite me? I’ve gone to my senator and talked to them about granting asylum to trans people from the states if Lord Cheese Puff gets re-elected. Not an email, in person. What the fuck have you ever done for anyone in my country?
I’m sorry, truly I am, that this post has caused you grief. But it was always going too. The rest of the world is just so, so, so exhausted from hearing about your politics.
Also, like, yeah it’s majority US because it’s an English-speaking community and y’all dominate the anglosphere population-wise. Did you know the admins of blahaj are actually Australian? So can we please not turn this into reddit where r/news is for american news and r/worldnews is for everyone else for fuck’s sake. What possible indicator did you get that 196 is just Seppos? That we’re speaking English? God that’s the exact kind of american essentialism that keeps me up at night.
Edit: I also commented on that other post and had the same opinion as you on it. So I particularly don’t enjoy this whingy rant about people from other countries not getting involved. If you don’t want that, create a space just for American stuff. Don’t complain when you post it in a general bloody group.
Oh no! You have.to read about it online??? You poor thing :(
i’m so fucking over this site. i ask people to be kinder to one another and what do i get. they double down. fuck me for caring, right.
I am backing up your main point buddy, time to take the foot off the gas and fucking chill.
/gen
what im so sorry did i say something offensive
You posted something clearly controversial, deleted it out of cowardice when the controversy came, and then got offended when someone tried to back up your point. Who I replied to gave you the long form of “lol idiot American”. Get real please.
ugh ugh im so sorry ! my fault. i appreciated your response and you must have misread my tone and that’s mostly on me. i have edited it to portray that thankfulness, but please don’t mistake my appreciation was always there.
(regarding the post i deleted it because it was a bad post and i made a better one. please do not attack me for cowardice.)
If you ever find a social media platform that doesn’t have stuff like this, please tell me. The larger a site gets the more representative of the human nature it gets, which leads to both really heartwarming stuff and things like this.
likewise 🫶
Lol you could not even deal with your own actions, nor stick to what you said. Good luck with US elections, if the avg. US citizen conviction can be guessed from yours, your country will continue to be a shit show for generations.
https://lemmy.cafe/post/3849946 don’t worry im doubling down 😌😌😌😌
I did not get that one. You think Americans are suffering?
What the fuck even is this post
cursed beyond repair
leaving it up because i think some of the discussion is valuable but if you are just coming in i suggest not worrying about it and moving on 😭
Dude, just remove the post. This is making you look worse, especially with these responses. I mean the comments already do NOT make you look good. The comments all make good points but no one knows what your original point was due to you removing it. Just makes them look way more rational.
eh i don’t really care what people think of me but i do appreciate your suggestion :)
Your own post disagrees with your statement that you don’t care but okay.
OP, don’t be too hard on yourself! You raised a good point…
I kinda feel for the non-US folks constantly getting bombarded by US politics and culture statements. I think it’s fair to be aware of the multinational and multicultural aspect of online communities. As this is a U.S. election year, good luck to us all lol
thank you 😭
