Ye there’s some of that no doubt. I’ll see random comments just dunking on the US completely off-topic, or almost entirely off-topic. I saw one a few days ago that was like “This only matters for people in the US, go post it somewhere local.” and like, that’s cool and all but I don’t see anyone saying that stuff on UK specific topics or any other country’s posts to this community.
Honestly, it’s just annoying more than anything. The US isn’t some uniquely evil place. A lot of the bad shit happening here is cropping up across the world, and y’all need to learn where we failed, or else be doomed just like us. Anyway, I think if your only contribution to the topic is “US bad.” then maybe you should make a US hate community or something tbh.
I get where you’re coming from but keep in mind that it is exhausting that it seems like everything you see online is somehow about the US. I know it’s not literally “everything” but it feels like no other country takes up anywhere near this much attention, even in our own local spaces*.
This is of course a consequence of the huge impact that US politics and economy (unfortunately) have on the world in general. Which means that, whether we like it or not, we have to pay SOME attention to what the US is doing because it probably WILL affect us in some way sooner or later (potentially taking away attention from more pressing, immediate matters in our own countries). No individual person is to blame for this but the frustration we feel sometimes needs to be vented.
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btw, this overexposure of US content is one reason why over on /c/ich_iel we make it a game to avoid any English words by translating any English terms in the most inane way. Other non-English communities do similar things, afaik.
I guess I don’t understand where this frustration comes from because to me, it’s just obvious. We’re speaking English, on a primarily English-speaking website, and one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world is the US. It just makes sense probability wise that there would be more posts about the US on average. Personally I’d love to see news (especially uplifting, because life is BLEAK, and I’d like to have hope again) from other countries, but I don’t speak other languages, so I only see what people translate and post tbh.
Anyway, I’m not saying you can’t vent, or that saying “fuck the us” is wrong, I just wish people would keep it on topic, instead of looking for the thinnest reason to throw in some shade. It really reminds me of the cheap “gotcha” karma farming comments that infest reddit and make the site so unenjoyable to browse.
Ye there’s some of that no doubt. I’ll see random comments just dunking on the US completely off-topic, or almost entirely off-topic. I saw one a few days ago that was like “This only matters for people in the US, go post it somewhere local.” and like, that’s cool and all but I don’t see anyone saying that stuff on UK specific topics or any other country’s posts to this community.
Honestly, it’s just annoying more than anything. The US isn’t some uniquely evil place. A lot of the bad shit happening here is cropping up across the world, and y’all need to learn where we failed, or else be doomed just like us. Anyway, I think if your only contribution to the topic is “US bad.” then maybe you should make a US hate community or something tbh.
I get where you’re coming from but keep in mind that it is exhausting that it seems like everything you see online is somehow about the US. I know it’s not literally “everything” but it feels like no other country takes up anywhere near this much attention, even in our own local spaces*.
This is of course a consequence of the huge impact that US politics and economy (unfortunately) have on the world in general. Which means that, whether we like it or not, we have to pay SOME attention to what the US is doing because it probably WILL affect us in some way sooner or later (potentially taking away attention from more pressing, immediate matters in our own countries). No individual person is to blame for this but the frustration we feel sometimes needs to be vented.
*
btw, this overexposure of US content is one reason why over on /c/ich_iel we make it a game to avoid any English words by translating any English terms in the most inane way. Other non-English communities do similar things, afaik.
I guess I don’t understand where this frustration comes from because to me, it’s just obvious. We’re speaking English, on a primarily English-speaking website, and one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world is the US. It just makes sense probability wise that there would be more posts about the US on average. Personally I’d love to see news (especially uplifting, because life is BLEAK, and I’d like to have hope again) from other countries, but I don’t speak other languages, so I only see what people translate and post tbh.
Anyway, I’m not saying you can’t vent, or that saying “fuck the us” is wrong, I just wish people would keep it on topic, instead of looking for the thinnest reason to throw in some shade. It really reminds me of the cheap “gotcha” karma farming comments that infest reddit and make the site so unenjoyable to browse.