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>Make a post on lemmy
>It gets 300 updoots
>Banned for rules 1,2
90% chance it's lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net or mabye even lemmy.dbzer0.net (i s that their domain?)
Why tf would lemmy.dbzer0 ban something?
99% it is blahaj.zone
I didn't know blahaj.zone banned many
Blahaj is peak Liberalism. Anything slightly to the left (or right) of it gets banned.
Lemmy calls anything left of Communism liberal.
Do you mean right of Communism?
The duality of Lemmy
Fake: Annon has popular ideas
G*y: Annon was on Reddit
Just say
GAY
Is that a new USAian law? Just say gay?
Void, I wish
I've heard them called "Americans" before.
That's cool. They are USAians, yanks, or seppos to me.
"American" can refer to anyone in the western hemisphere
Yet it is virtually never used that way in modern times, and if someone said "American" you'd know exactly what they meant.
i have seen american being used to refer to someone living in either South or Nord America enough to need to figure out if someone is talking about the 2 continents or about a single country when they are using the term
Maybe in the US. But that's "USian defaultism."
Also, in the US I find people who identify as "American" are laden with connotations of jingo-nationalism.
I'm a US citizen, but I don't identify as an "american." My loyalty is to the constitution, not some pseudo-patriotic flag fascism.
US? US what? United States of Mexico? United States of Matsya? If we're being difficult and aloof just to be difficult and aloof, lets really lean into it. When you say "US" it could be a number of places.
The United States in almost all contexts refers to the United States of America, and is understood as such. That's why the official designation for the United States Government is USG, not USAG.
And before you say "HA! United States of America! Gotcha!" No shit. "United States of America" species that it's referring to the United States, which are located in the Americas. As opposed to simply "America" which could also refer to North America, South America, Meso America, and doesn't automatically mean "the United States of America."
In case you still don't get it, you wouldn't say "California" refers to the "University of California" simply because it's the "University of what? Oh that's right, California!" That would be a braindead take.
If you're in California however and you say "The University," people know you mean "The University of California," and would only be asking "Which campus?"
When there's another nation called the "United States of [something]" then we can talk about "the US" being difficult and aloof terminology.
When thereβs another nation called the βUnited States of [something]β then we can talk about βthe USβ being difficult and aloof terminology.
I named two examples, a country and a state. But I'll leave you to pick and choose and be super smart and progressive.
You mean the "United Mexican States" and the "Matsya States Union"?
Yeah, that's a stretch. Neither of those are ever abbreviated "US." It's not ambiguous.
That's the case in the English language, where "Usian" is usually interpreted as a derogative adjective, but how else would you translate "[IT] statunitense" as opposed to "[IT] americano"?
I'm pretty sure the Spanish language has something similar to the Italian word, and I suspect that's true for some other romance languages.
I myself use "American" instead of "Usian", because the latter feels... artificial, but at the same time insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
I suppose I wouldn't know because I'm not American, I'm American.
EDIT: I mean honestly, no one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English. This whole thing ironically smacks of a first world problem a (perhaps self-hating) American (or at very least Westerner) came up with. All the rest of us surrounding their country know our identities.
Iβm not American, Iβm American
Assuming you meant "specifically not from the USA" instead of the second "American", with that being a typo (feel free to clarify)...
[N]o one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English.
... I loosely mentioned US exceptionalism, but I didn't know American Continent exceptionalism was even a thing - with the benefit of the doubt, I still don't.
"Statiunitense" is an Italian word that I first learned in a formal setting as an adult (18+) from a Fineco [finecobank.com] employee, which loosely implies that it's an appropriate way to refer to something from / belonging_to the USA in a small fraction of the geopolitical landscape...
insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
... hence my previous comment. It is possible to perform grievous acts of TheLandOfTheFree Exceptionalism without living in the Land Of The Free *, mind you.
"Usian" (USian, wgaf about capitalization) is as valid of a word as "Japan" is, refering to ζ₯ζ¬ (pronounced "Nippon" - [source]):
some languages have words that semantically refer to YOUR interpretation of "American", WHILE having different single-word equivalents to what you would say when refering to either the North American continent or the South American Continent.
... with the latter two occasionally known as, y'know, "America".
Why bother differentiating between "American but not outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America" and "Either South American or North American, regardless of affiliation to the United States Of America", when you can just either say "American" OR "Usian"?
* 60 seconds later edit:
For many non-adult, probably autisticly coded years I looked up to the USA as a cool nation. I am no exception to Super Earth exceptionalism.
This is the problem with these greentext communities, the people in them have never actually posted on 4chan and lack the ability to comment without filtering themselves.
I mean, if Iβm being perfectly honest, Iβd prefer not to associate with people who frequent any of the toxic chans. A middle ground where people are capable of reading or writing something peculiar without going slack-jawed would be nice, though. The line where the community suddenly turns homophobic is incredibly thin.
but this word is not present in the bible!
/s duh
Anon just posted porn, that's all
His mom is pretty popular.
I feel bad when Reddit mods get the brunt for stuff like this; in my opinion, it's usually not their fault. It's the fault of Reddit which relies on unpaid labor to make its entire website work literally at all. Maybe that was "fine" back in the early days when Reddit was smaller, but Reddit nowadays is one of the largest websites on Earth and represents the lowest common denominator of Internet users.
I mod a couple communities here and don't mind because this whole sphere is non-profit, the people on average are pretty cool, and vastly fewer people makes it so I can usually recognize people and resolve problems by talking. But the idea of working pro bono pseudononymously for a corporation with a market cap of 26.5 billion USD to keep their millions of (on average) stupid fucking users in line is one of the most soul-crushing things I can imagine. You really do have to take actions like this because, without stern moderation, communities will inevitably go to shit. They'll return to the LCD, and your community will just melt into the rest of the front page with tenuously related, zero-effort posts.
All things considered, I think most of Reddit's mods are doing a good job (and well more than what they owe Reddit or even the random end user, which is fucking nothing and next to fucking nothing, respectively). Yeah, the mods could quit at any time, and they probably should at least on ethical grounds, but I also understand sunk cost and wanting to continue fostering a community about a subject you like that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy.
All things considered, I think most of Redditβs mods are doing a good job
You have the best jokes
Mod strike could be amusing.
Completely ineffectual, though. There are too many people who cannot tolerate the absence of Reddit. The last Reddit mod strikes proved as much, as people simply let the admins dictate how, when, and why the strikes finished
Also the reddit admins removed or threatened to remove moderators who tried to strike.
Isn't that kinda the point? Go ahead and remove them, now find someone else to do it.
Bonus if anyone that takes their place is in on it and intentionally does a really bad job.
Yeah, it was fair to complain about power tripping reddit mods 4 years ago. Now I just feel bad for them. But I also haven't used reddit in years.
nooooo not his karma
Karm*
My last reddit account was locked due to a potential password leak, so they said. Odd that I had 2FA enabled from day one, and the password was 64 characters generated from noise. It's almost as if they lied to me to just ban my account.
Just wait till they come to Lemmy, reddit will look like a paradise
:3c