If I hear this phrase one more time I think I’m going to shit on a post.

Who give a rats ass if you’re American.

Nobody, that’s who.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    meanwhile about time anyone actually followed your complaint, many more would be saying “omg you Americans are so self centered, you aren’t the only ones in the world you know”

    Personally think that the more context the better, helps shape what the conversation is running off.

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      What kind of American, is my question. For larger sub-types, we have the great state of Canadia up north, Texas in the south, Mexico in the south-south, then and then the Panama canal, that splits us from Antarctica. (The rest is just volcanoes and rain forest; Not even worth mentioning, really.)

      In the Murica, we have about 50 states, each with their own ideology, culture, food, language, road system, religion, insurance policies and vehicle preferences. By far, the biggest ideological differences spawn from if you fight for Carl’s Jr. or Hardee’s. We kinda have Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, but I need to check the books on that.

      Texas is by far the most independent. Unless there is a hurricane, measles outbreak, electricity shortage or need for other commodities from the other bastard states… They will temporarily join the Union followed by absolute denial that they need the rest of the states for anything. So completely independent and we should be scheduling our next civil war shortly, but the forms for that got lost by the USPS which is yet another service they have never needed.

      But yeah, we have a million different sub-cultures here is my point. It might be easier to call us out by car type, TBH. The differences between a Ford/Chevy-American and say, a Honda or Tesla-American are very telling. The Tesla-Americans are going through a transition now, so we can put them off to the side.

      So, with all of that, bunching us all up as “THE muricans” is really silly. Most of us can’t afford the trip through the Rockies to mix and mingle with rumored the California and the Washington anyway. (Those “states” don’t even exist to me.)

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    In the sterile text fields that compose the internet, you can’t hear the slide rack sound that precedes every American utterance.