• Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        185·
        9 months ago

        We do, it is just that Americans flood even country-specific subs to make it about them.

        We know your country sucks, you don’t have to remind us every time we open the internet.

        • jsomae@lemmy.ml
          3·
          9 months ago

          That you say “your country” immediately reveals your own bias to assume that everything you see is American.

          You probably think everyone posting is male as well.

          Even I think this despite being a canadian woman.

  • Dæmon S.@calckey.world
    731·
    9 months ago

    @[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!

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    672·
    9 months ago

    It’s also nice when they come into our country-specific subs to tell us how things are in the US, as we get so little news about the US.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
      28·
      9 months ago

      I hear more news from the US than my own country. Granted, my own country’s politics are people respectfully discussing policy matters while US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined, with unimaginably high stakes.

        • bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 months ago

          we only have dirty corrupt diddlers on each level of hierarchy. The prime minister is a “gyaan raat bhar, kaam jhaant bhar” kinda guy. The media is sold. The opposition lacks strength. Politicians get way too much power for doing Literally nothing.

          I believe India is in “USA but 50 years ago if smart phones were present” kind of situation

              • Stewbs@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                Andhbhakts are already at it. Whataboutism at its finest when you look at their “arguments” and “points”. Seriously, I wonder why so many people are so deluded? Is the Cult of Personality really so strong with BJP? Seems like it.

        • Barracuda@lemmy.zip
          2·
          9 months ago

          À ce rythme là, ce serait préférable que le cirque nucléaire au sud.

          At this rate, it would be preferable to the nuclear circus South of the border. Where can I read more?

    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
      5·
      9 months ago

      I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.

        Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer

        • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          9 months ago

          If anyone is allowed too much power, like billionaires, or any anti-democratic institution likefor-profit corporations get too big, you do not have a democracy-federated or not. It’s like trying to judge the flavor of a sandwich after dipping it in human shit-it mightve been a good or bad sandwich before, but no sandwich is good like this.

          As the technologies of control get more sophisticated, you’ll find more and more that any attempt to have democracy without metaohorically decapitating those problems just means more resources are turned to those technologies, more of society and its mechanisms seem convoluted and inscrutable.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      It’s not even “news” - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.

  • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
    578·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    39·
    9 months ago

    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)

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    321·
    9 months ago

    be eurotrash

    bored and want to see what the Internet is up to since I last looked 30 seconds ago

    login to lemmy from my eurotrash instance

    check lemmy.world for news

    surprisedeurochu.eu

    all this US garbage rubbish!

    bollocks.mpeg

    makes a post complaining about US posts and ignores everything else going on in Europe

    am we doing this right?

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    303·
    9 months ago

    Go to english-speaking social media

    See people from the country with the most english speakers

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    305·
    9 months ago

    Some twat of a mod removed a news article, a very popular post which I linked, because “it’s internal US news”. It was literally from the national broadcasting company of Finland, talking about our national Moomin characters. But no.

    Lemmy is filled with Russian pretending to be Americans/Canadians/whatever

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        And they removed Stinky. That’s what the news was about. Since it happened in the US the mod removed it as “doesn’t belong to world news, purely US internal news”, despite it being reported on Yle.fi and being about most known Finnish characters.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        87·
        9 months ago

        Ah, always catch a few self admitting Putlerites by tossing that hook out.

        So nice of you to let us know so we can tag you

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            33·
            9 months ago

            I think you’re using words a tad too large for your vocabulary.

            What would acknowledging how pathetic, tiny and pitiful cowards anyone supporting Russia or Putler be contradictory with?

            Like I said, it’s so nice of you to step forward and admit what that you’re a coward who’s perpetuating the things he knows to be false.

            It’s honestly like 95% of the time that every single thing you pretend others have, you yourself have. So you’re as struggling with dissonance because you know what garbage all Russian propaganda is, but you’re too scared to even admit it to yourself (even when you know it to be true), because you’re afraid of “falling out of a window”?

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can’t speak German, and there’s zero chance I’m learning German at 37.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          The complexity, probably. I am decent in French, rudimentary Spanish. I think I’d go about getting a better handle on those before German. And then, if I choose to step away from the romantic languages, it’s probably for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. So I shouldn’t say zero, zero isn’t real, but it’s close to zero.

          So it’s not some anti-german thing. Ich habe einen Bruder, I’ve got a little German, my girlfriend in high school took it, but I just don’t see it in my future. In fact, besides working and taking care of my family until I die, I don’t see much else.

        • Potatar@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          It’s a weird ass language. When you start, it feels easy because rules are rigid. Then you try to build longer sentences PROPERLY and you feel that it is cumbersome. Finally you try to talk to native speakers, and you see that native speakers also think it is cumbersome and they omit 50% of rules in dailyspeak. Then, your brain turns into a mush which cannot decide if past is ok here or do I do perfekt to not look like a posh journalist. Do I use genitive like a properboi or dativ like a correct streetboi? Oh wait, they call it Cola (female) in Germany but Cola (male) in Austria? Wait what? it’s not country specific but much more local than that and you can be wrong while in a car?

          It’s a mess.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Mika@sopuli.xyzOP
      21·
      9 months ago

      Oh don’t worry it will affect us alright, it’s just that we don’t have any say in whatever happens there.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        9 months ago

        Like any of us do? I’m just waiting for lines to be drawn where I know where I can stand.

        • Mika@sopuli.xyzOP
          62·
          9 months ago

          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).

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            9 months ago

            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.