uienia @ uienia @lemmy.world

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Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.

Trump has never cared about hiring people who are efficient. He hires them if they pay him. His administration was filled with industry representatives, who were in positions where they decided regulation of their own businesses. Corruption all the way down.

The World Wide Web is not an American invention. Who invented what is completely irrelevant in this context anyway though.

When non-native English speakers are navigating in a non-national internet setting we use English. I have gathered from the many American comments in this thread, that that fact is apparently incredibly difficult for Americans to gauge. Nevertheless, it is a fact.

Again, the numbers you linked shows that you are more likely to speak to a non-American on reddit than an American. Your entire premise is flawed from the beginning.

What I am saying is that of all Internet users that use English, Americans are by far the largest group

No, they didn't misunderstand. It is you who are massively misunderstanding. You are suffering from the erronous assumption that people who speak English on the internet are native English speakers when that it is not so at all. People speak English on the internet because it is the largest commonly understood language. So people from non-English speaking countries are using it as well. And there are a heck of a lot more non-native English speakers in the world than native English speakers.

So you are most likely at any time on the internet to be speaking to a non-native English speaker, and thus definitely not an American.

Again, you are completely missing the point of the internet and English usage on it. People are using English as a lingua franca. There are a lot more non-native English speakers on the internet than native English speakers.

So no, odds are not that it is an American you are speaking to, just because that person speaks English. You are literally regurgitating the fallacy that OP is about.

The thing is we are not talking about visiting countries. We are talking about the virtual World Wide Web.

What on Earth are you on about? "denigrate Americans". They are pointing out facts. That you apparently are so fragile that you consider that denigration is entirely on yourself.

Your comment is very typical of that (fallacious) US centrism. People write in English on the internet because that is the universal language. There are far more secondary English speakers on the internet than primary English speakers.

Sounds like a hell of a lot of projection of your own bigotry.

Beans are native to Europe.

You are in luck then, because the majority of the world's population is clueless about root beer.

And more relevant to lemmy .ml

The soldiers who mass bombed civilian targets and dropped more bombs on North Vietnamese cities than where dropped during the entirety of WWII? Nah, fuck them.

Why not?

Fuck of with that stupid generationism. This is narcissism, a mental illness which exists in people of all ages.

Generationism is something that is made up to make people forget about the actual structural problems in society.

She did support Norrh Vietnam in their self defence against US colonialism, and US right wingers are still furious at her for doing that. And that just makes her cooler.

In a fact based discussion sure, but bullshitting has other purposes: muddying the waters, creating distrust of media, simply drowning out non-bullshit.