There is. The [email protected] is about US news, AFAIK.
Is the US not a part of the world? And why would US News not belong in News? I’m confused.
Actually USA is a pocket dimension
Do US doesn’t think it’s part of the world, it thinks it’s its own different world that only contains the US.
Because of the sheer amount of US-Americans, we curated seperate places for them, only containing US-American news, where they don’t mess up the rest.
There are people who are stupid enough to pretend the goings on of the world’s only superpower isn’t relevant to their lives, as they scroll Facebook on their iPhones within the combat radius of an F-35.
Those iPhones made in China you mean?
America is not the only superpower and well on its way to no longer being the biggest one. Trump complains a lot about providing defense capability for Europe and other places but in return for that America got influence which is what made it a superpower.
Now that people are no longer trusting the US that influence will be reduced. Europe won’t be the next superpower but probably China will be. I’m not very happy with that but as a European I don’t really want us to be a superpower either.
China, the nation that is good at doing what western nations tell them how to do.
I’m also within range of a North Korean nuclear missile, what’s your point?
The difference is, F-35s work.
That’s right, ignore any inconvenient truths. If you don’t like it, then it mustn’t work.
Is your entire world view centred on the idea that the rest of the planet is essentially in the stone age and then the US air force is just a flying above it all? I remind you that the US hasn’t won a single war in 80 years.
Must be why North Korea has the best selling fighter jet in the world.
…oh wait.
So you don’t believe that North Korea has the potential to be a threat to the United States? If so then what about China, are they a threat, Russia is certainly a threat l, there’s a whole period of history of America considering Russia to be a threat.
If they’re threats to you then they must also be superpowers, stands to reason. So there are a lot of super powers, and yet all I ever hear about is the US. Odd that.
No I don’t believe that North Korea has the potential to be a threat to the United States. I’ve seen North Korea help Russia threaten Ukraine. How’s that going for them. Europe is currently pissing themselves wondering what they can do against Russia without America’s help, that’s been kinda funny to watch.
We took the Soviet Union seriously. There’s a difference: The Soviet Union had Ukraine in it. Turns out they were the brains of the operation.
As for China…I think I’m gonna live long enough to see that fight.
It could be worse. You could live here and have everything in that news keep you in a constant state of distress and anxiety.
Such places do exist though? e.g. [email protected] says:
Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it’ll be 99% US stuff, but that’s not a rule.
And there’s [email protected]:
Welcome to [email protected], where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
And [email protected]:
News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.
There also used to be [email protected] and [email protected], although both were on instances that no longer exist.
Also, “World” communities outside of Lemmy.World do a MUCH better job of allowing USA news but not letting it dominate the feeds - e.g. [email protected].
You may want to broaden your horizons beyond only those large communities on Lemmy.World - especially since those subscriber stats are fake (the Users / month are likely better but the Subscriber counts in particular include accounts of people who tried Lemmy for a brief time before noping back to Reddit, never to return). An analogy: leave the toxic sheeple to argue over how to fix their Windows machines, while you embrace the beauty of learning to use Linux - it takes some slightest of effort on your part, but you will be glad that you did.
Its so strange. Like let’s be real here: Even if Americans weren’t the plurality of Lemmy users (we are), America is also literally at the top of the modern global hegemony. I don’t like it, I most certainly don’t like what we do with it, but it’s still true. Emanuel Macron does some dumb shit, it rocks the EU markets, maybe drops some forecasts for the sociopolitical climates of some EU nations and the nations they still squat on (again, not defending, just stating the reality that there are still African nations paying France for their independence). If a senator here so much as gets out of bed wrong, an entire chunk of the current global order could be thrown into upheaval. Orban praises Putin, sucks for Hungary. Trump praises Putin, it sucks for literally the entire planet.
You can be mad that we’re in that position; I most certainly am. I truly believe the world would have a better chance at improving if we weren’t. But until we aren’t, yeah, our news is global news. You can be sick of hearing about it, you can even predict it, but that doesn’t make it any less impactful or worth knowing.
It’s interesting that the US claims to be the top of the heap economically and yet much of the cutting edge science being done at the moment in fusion is coming out of Europe and China. I don’t believe the US’s contributed anything to that sector of science. It’s the same across the board, the largest particle accelerator in the world, in Europe, the largest telescope in the world, in China, the second largest been Arecibo and that was in Puerto Rico, and was so unappreciated it was allowed to rot, not exactly a glowing endorsement for US science.
Every time this is brought up somebody always goes yeah but we’ve landed on the moon, and that’s the point really, US’s last great contribution to the world was over a generation ago and the organisation that did it is being defunded. America was one great.
Same bro, same! I have blocked 10+ communities and keywords through Voyager app.
I do enjoy my home page, but I do like to scroll through /all, and that’s where I scroll going through USA news.Edit: USA users are also aggressive when you complain, like you are wrong, not letting other people know what’s going on.
please share those words.
If its an international news sub I think one post form each country perday is fair. I don’t need to have a minute by minute update about drumps bowel movements and how awful they are.
If a post is against the community rules, you should report it, not just downvote it.
If I report every post I see not fit, I will get banned most likely.
And they will say that we support Trump and that we don’t let people know about Trump for the 100th time.If moderators ban users for reporting posts which break community rules that the moderators wrote, those are some pretty incompetent moderators.
Yeah. As a Canadian, I can’t say that I’m not fucking sick of it. This America-centric bullshit has gone on for far too fucking long, and if there is one thing that I will thank Donald Trump for, it is finally giving me a socially acceptable justification for hating that entire fucking shit stain of a country.
Whoa! I never knew you were a Canuck. Glad you’re better off.
But we should be used to this centric viewpoint. We have Toronto and our own country’s fixation on the toronto-niagra-montreal Triangle of Journalistic Relevance, outside of which no one and nothing matters.
I try not to hate the yanks just because the news fixates on them for the same reason our news fixates in its own way. And I’ve met so many smart and caring yanks that are just not being heard in their own country.
Newfie too. I’m the best of the best. So definitely aware of how centric the rest of Canada can be, trust me.
Isn’t this only a problem because many users are American? Then naturally many posts will be about America.
How is “world news” defined?
Shh, don’t be too logical; it ruins their fun.
Yes. It’s still a problem. What’s your point here?
The point is that the solution is to sub to various country-specific news subs instead of general news subs.
No, it’s for Americans to stop spamming the general news… ahm… subs? You need to go back.
They aren’t spamming. There are just more americans, who are posting at the same rate as other people from other nations.
It’s not their fault they’re taught that they are the centre of the whole world.
Considering a lot of OPs posts are about America and it’s politics, I’m wondering if they down vote their own posts.
American geography teacher preparing for class:
And yet we still can’t identify half our own states on a map. To be fair, there are a lot of rectangles.
Their behaviour is not their fault, but it’s still their responsibility.
It’s also their problem defining what is important and what not. Posting everything that Trump says, is not news, it’s a spam.
It’s not only that.
I have the feeling that US mainstream media style is replicated in the comments, aimed at maximizing polarized drama instead of having balanced and grounded discussions.
I can’t stand that type of talk.This. I was watching the BBC Archive the other day, where it interviewed people’s thoughts on the mutual disarm movement back in the 80s, and you had two people sitting down at a table expressing their views, but not getting more than a little riled up or resorting to character attacks.
https://youtu.be/6yfE9Ihr8F0?t=661
I wish TV was still like this. The most vocal guy in the room is putting forward the view that UK paid for the nukes, and so it should keep them, and ultimately make ourselves more independent of the US and not subservient to them. He’s also a chauvinist pig, but it is only one aspect of his personality and the others seem to understand that and keep the discussion grounded.
One thing I have noticed from watching these old videos is that people ultimately haven’t changed: the exact same gripes (cost of living, buying houses), and the exact same fears (russian interference, loss of jobs to china). They just smoke and drank more.
That last sentence might sound like a joke, but I do think there really is something to having a beer and sharing a cigarette with someone you’re violently in disagreement with. It normalizes the air somehow. Reminds me of the “slightly less than two drinks” rule from Mitchell&Web.
1983 , I was in the army then , almost WW III, Stanislav Petrov saved the world
Yes he did. Sometimes it just takes one adult in the room
So many resources are deployed with the aim of making Americans afraid of each other and the world. This polarizes people, who get very heated and expend huge amounts of energy spitting vitriol at each other to no effect, which has the very intentional side effect of making politics so uncomfortable (and seemingly unproductive) to think or talk about that many people who can afford to do so just tune it out, which allows politicians to get away with even more heinous shit because it’s what’s expected of politicians anyway. It’s a pretty elegant, if dismal, system :/
And that “we” (honestly don’t know if it applies to you specifically) are in their support of influence, so any big enough US news has significant impact on half of the globe.
With on one hand the polarization of discourse and on the other the decay of democratic standards in the US, it is normal to have higher levels of interest across communities that are not US centered but only US influenced.
i just block out these comms nowadays
One of the first things I realized I had to do after joining Lemmy, was blocking some “politics@…” communities (and some people active there)
Completely unbearable.
Rest of Lemmy then turned out to be totally fine and enjoyable folks!
there are alot keyboard politicians on lemmy. they al seem to have a master degree in politics.
doubt any of those keyboard politicians actually contribute to anything useful in their own local politics.
Alternate title: I don’t want to know what happened in Bumfuck, Nevada.
I had a brief scroll through your history and it looks like you like to post a fair bit about the USA. Some trump meme, something about Tesla in San Francisco, Taylor Swift meme, Trevor Noah cllip…
…be the change you want to see…? 🤷
Of the four examples listed, three are just up bullshit.
- Tesla flew off a bridge which happened to be in San Francisco. Would’ve posted a similar thing if it was in London or Kuala Lampur.
- Taylor Swift happens to be American. Her fanbase is global.
- Trevor Noah is a comedian born in South Africa, talking about comedy festival in Saudi, being attended by comedians from everywhere.
🙄🙄🙄
Wouldn’t make a difference for me, I speak spanish so I can’t post at all because every instance/community is english only.
Feels even worse when someone posts good news from my country but it’s just propaganda and manipulated numbers, but since every actual critic was kicked out of mainstream media long ago, the fediverse won’t accept whenever they post now and it wouldn’t matter because they speak spanish anyway.Yes, I know I could host my own.
No, I don’t have the means to do it.And blocking this annoying user.
