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.
Well sure. But that’s also because everyone else learned how to use English to communicate. So it FEELS like we’re all American. It’s a common thing in online spaces.
Maar als we allemaal terug zouden gaan naar onze eigen taal, voelt het hier een stuk minder Amerikaans.
I’ve literally had lengthy English conversations with other Dutch people online where we only figured out we were both Dutch twenty comments later :D
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.
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.
US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined
Don’t ever look into Indian politics. It will fry your brain.
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
The recent ECI scandal only hammers this point harder.
and this will become a meme soon enough and everyone will forget about it. Indian politics is dirty
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.
I think in north india, we seem to bind our identity with a politician or a party and start justifying everything they do. Plus the lack of awareness in the masses is never a good thing.
The country is groups of giant flocks of sheeps.
As an Indian, very much agreed.
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?
I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.
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?
“worldnews”: American local news
It ain’t even local news. What we have now, is anybody’s guess.
Corporate shitheel news.
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
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.
“worldnews”: only in Ohio
It’s not even “news” - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.
Ahhhh…I get you…like the World Series.
>US News — Midwest.social
>look inside
>it’s Russians
Was just permabanned from Ask Lemmy for explaining Russian and Chinese bots (bots are slaves). FYI did you know it’s totally okay for Russia and China to have slaves and engage in expansionism and election interference? Slaves are TOTALLY COOL and fine if they are Russian or Chinese, even if that means Russia or China expands into new territories and enslaves new people👍 Disliking slavery and war makes me a US propaganda shill somehow, even though the US is also explicitly pro-slavery (13th amendment) and pro-warfare and is operated by a Russian asset so all US propaganda these days IS Russian propaganda
Oh they actually specified “US”? Usually they just ramble on about the generic West.
Yup
why is it decapitated
Just a haircut.
Meme template.
Trump will probably give Alaska to Putin tomorrow.
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
all this US
garbagerubbish!bollocks.mpeg
makes a post complaining about US posts and ignores everything else going on in Europe
am we doing this right?
Splendid!
Jolly good!
Mint
Bueno!
Bratwurst!
Kielbasa!
Dobre!
There’s a beautiful sweet spot between the Americans going to bed and the Germans waking up where Its not US politics but I can still understand whats being said.
Anyone else outside US and Europe: do we exist?
Only if you’re israel
Apparent we do not
Ye we do.
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people from the country with the most english speakers
India?
!ich_iel@feddit.org disagrees.
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LW is hosted in germany, and it’s admin/owner is based in the neatherlands.
I mean, it’s called .world, it’s not crazy to assume people from around the world would interact there
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You might be on to something 🤔
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
Someone made a mistake? Outrageous.
There is a nice exhibition on the Moomans at the Brooklyn Library right now, if anyone is interested! https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/celebrate-tove-jansson’s-central-library-dweck-20250809-0100pm
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.
.world is pure zionist slop. And so many communities have gathered there that i can’t just instance block it.
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
What is the utility of this, beyond maintaining cognitive dissonance?
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”?
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Aww, did I anger you so?
How does this video of an orc blowing up make you feel?
Ahh I can’t upload a video directly. I’ll just give you the before and after, yeah?
Before
After… or rather During
You can see bits of him flying if you look close
Jesus… There are kids here…
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If you guys went to school you’d know how shit your propaganda is. You got pissed that I’m mocking Russia for the third world autocracy it is, with some lame “whatabout Gaza”
We are against Gazan genocide. Like we’re against pathetic Putlerites committing warcrimes on Ukrainians. If you’re Russian and you’re not protesting you’re pathetic as fuck
But you won’t be against displacement of Ukrainian kids, because you like to suck Putler cock
Sort by new and you’ll find it’s a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.
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.
Why zero chance?
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.
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.
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.
Maybe the problem is that in Europe our news are mostly in local languages. So, if I post something I would need to translate. Or one would need to share something from France24 (English), BBC, Euronews (English), etc. But, the content is not as comprehensive as the national newspapers…
These are my current muted words, got more on my mastodon account
