All news happens somewhere
Or US news in “pics” or “memes” 😡
If only keyword filters would’ve work for pictures as well. Also, lemmy 1.0 will support keywords platform-wide.
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.
Hurblurblurb threaten bombing. uSA! uSA!
That’s what you sound like.
Oh, yes, the only superpower of like 4. Europe, Russia, China, USA.
Is Russia still considered a superpower? Lately it feels like more of China’s sockpuppet.
Absolutely they are, but they’re in fall.
Also, I find lemmy wild. One person here said china is doing the wests (which includes europe) bidding, you now said russia is chinas puppet. Since Russia is fighting europe, which is “the west”, are the europeans fighting themselves? There can be a capitalist argument made here, but otherwise there is severe misinformation here, possibly just based on the lack of nuance. We should fix that collectively.
Well, they supposedly still have enough functional nukes to cause another mass extinction, so I wouldn’t bank on a bluff, but you’re not wrong either.
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.
There is. The !news@lemmy.world is about US news, AFAIK.
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.
USA users are also aggressive when you complain
It’s another effect of the last few generations being raised on authoritarian teat. They’re always right, and all dissenting opinions aren’t just wrong, they’re personal attacks.
I saw this shit in adults when I was growing up, in the US in the 90s. People here are straight-up brainwashed. I became a skeptic by age 12, and boy oh boy, did my teachers have a problem with it. I’d debunk myths and “old wives tales,” especially when teachers spread them. I’d research and bring in evidence to support my points. Sounds like a great teaching opportunity, right? Not when the teachers lean authoritarian.
Even the best science teacher in my middle school couldn’t admit to the class that he lied about swallowed gum staying in your stomach for seven years. He told me I was right in private, after I brought in two books and a magazine explaining that it was a myth. But the other kids? They didn’t believe me, because teacher said it’s true, so it must be true. As to the teacher, I guess it’s just easier to control kids with a lie than to have a little humility, stand up for truth and science, and accept whatever happens after. It spoke volumes to me about where the adults around me stood. I already knew the kids were swallowing the propaganda, but seeing the adults have so little backbone angered me.
So yeah, we’re pretty fucked as a culture. Needless to say, I stopped being surprised by the acceptance of fascism long ago. Too many people here like the idea of just being told things by someone speaking with confidence. To question that is to be a shit-stirrer and there will be consequences for it. This also explains why we accept terrible bosses and working conditions - it’s all part of the same big picture.
please share those words.
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.
Don’t worry, we hate this country too :)
Though, we are part of the world last I checked, so while I understand an eye roll level of annoyance at US news being posted in a world news community, some of y’all need therapy with how angry you’re getting. It’s weird.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So, spamming.
Do you even know what spamming is or are you just mad and blaming other people for your lack of ability to curate your experience
I’m blaming Americans for their lack of ability to understand they’re not the centre of the world. Why does it bother you so much?
Here I’ll give you an example: The exact same comment you made was made a couple of hours before, yet you still felt the need to post it because you think you’re very important.
Explain how this is spamming
It’s a bunch of people filling up a community with something irrelevant. Explain how it isn’t.
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.
🙄🙄🙄
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.
How about someone start a community called outsideUSnews, nonUSApolitics etc.? Where every country other than USA’s news and politics are discussed.
!world@lemmy.world has a rule against United States internal news, which is a nice balance for me, but it can still be dominated by news about ways that the US is affecting things around the world
Unfortunately, that community is also moderated by an American (JordanLund) who has refused to acknowledge or accept terms from other countries outside of the United states, has banned Canadians for ‘misinformation’ when they were merely using Canadian political terms he didn’t understand, and has argued with the admins of lemmy.world that he did nothing wrong. The admins warned him about the situation and publicly he refuses to back down.
That community can’t be trusted. It’s not impartial and not remotely trustworthy. It is seen through an aggressively American lens.
This is a breakdown of some of the shit that he’s done. It’s a repost of something I made that got deleted when I left LW. This is that original post if you want to see the comments of him “defending” himself by making it a thousand times worse. This was the last straw for me and why I left Lemmy.world, deleting all my content and setting up on dbzer0 instead with new communities to boot.
I am fucking done accepting an American being the be-all and end-all of reality when they’re not even plugged into it themselves.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20024446
And here’s PJ slandering you because he knows you can’t read him.
Pug is shouting into a void at us, still making shit up and pretending to be on the left as he hates anarchists, communists, and anyone vaguely against the status quo. Gotta love how he’s just so normal.
I also cannot see him because I had his LW account blocked on LW. I literally could not care less about him. He doesn’t matter. Would like to stay oblivious about him, thanks. I don’t need his whiny updates being hand delivered. I appreciate the heads up but I just really don’t care about the dude.
Fair enough, I’ll try to not do that for ya in the future. I felt if someone was going to slander a user they should be made aware of it. ❤️
100% I agree with that stance. However, as far as I’m concerned, he’s not even a user. He’s nothing. I would tell you what I think about him, but I don’t.
And here’s PJ slandering you because he knows you can’t read him.
I’m sorry that dbzer0 banned me for pointing out their tolerance and denial of genocide and sexual assault. Sorry that you think opposing genocide is ‘turbolib’ behavior, but I guess locking arms together when one of the community is downvoted - sorry, confronted with bad behavior - is
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Yeah, you left .world over a shitty mod, to go to an instance where the admins tolerate Holodomor denial and deny UN-verified sexual assault, lmao.
Fantastic choice.
Both Unruffled, dbzer0 admin, and Davel, .ml admin, denying UN verified sexual assault
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Give it a fucking break, dude. JL is not Satan and not nearly as bad as you make him out to be.
Yeah, he did some power tripping dumb shit and can’t handle being questioned. Yeah, the admins handled that late. If it continues, I do believe they’ll deal with it.
But he’s not racist, and he’s not half the other things you’ve accused him of. Just because you didn’t fully get your way doesn’t make it his fault.
You know the latest thing he’s been shit on for? Not allowing US news in !world. It’s incredibly stupid. And he’s been defeated and overrun.
You know he’s human, right?
But he’s not racist, and he’s not half the other things you’ve accused him of. Just because you didn’t fully get your way doesn’t make it his faul
Ask him if black lives matter. Ask him about Matt Walsh.
Yep, Jordan’s problem is that he is American. Definitely not that he’s a piece of shit.
I never said the problem was that he was an American now, did I? I repeatedly added caveats after the fact about how he’s a lunatic. The worst was “an aggressively American lens” which I also stand by given it’s a world news community.
moderated by an American who has refused to acknowledge or accept terms from other countries outside of the United States
Seen through an aggressively American lens
an American being the be-all and end-all of reality when they’re not even plugged into it themselves.
My issue is that it’s a world news community run by an apologetic American who is also an asshole. That perfect storm of stupid. Not because he is an American alone.
Edit: Jesus check this users modlog… They seem to only exist on lemmy to get into petty slapfights over their own failed reading comprehension. They have so many recent mod interactions that if you click on page 2 you’re still under “A Month Ago”.
You can’t expect Trick to read! He hates you for being right and his favorite power tripping bastard being proven wrong.
Edit: Because Trick is blocked due to being a troll:
- No I don’t have an alt you fucking weirdo.
- No I’m not a bot because I have a memory of active users. “Everyone I don’t like is a bot!” Is the argument of people with no point in life.
And a quick look at your comment history reveals that your favorite, maybe only, activity on Lemmy is to single out users and act like you know them to be, personally, bad people. Pretty odd. Example:
As a. FYI, Phillip lied when he said he never knew about PugJesus, when he’s had accounts interact with him on communities he’s modded and talked before. He’ll feign ignorance and being a smartass when everyone with an once of reality knows his bullshit.
You some kind of weird bot experiment?
It’s pretty obvious even if I were to ignore this other thing you said
… finally giving me a socially acceptable justification for hating that entire fucking shit stain of a country.
In a completely different comment, in a completely different comment chain (responding directly to OP) with a completely different context? Sure. Let’s add that back in so we’re not acting disingenuous as fuck, shall we?
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.
Do I hate the United States? Yes. Do I hate Americans? No. You seem to have a serious problem with reading comprehension or you’re just wanting to frame this like you’re a victim. You’re not. People are allowed to have opinions on countries that repeatedly meddle in the rest of the world, you’re not special and do not deserve special protection from criticism as a country. You also need to learn the difference between disliking a country and disliking its people. You know, unless you want to argue that you are completely aligned with the United States government which I seriously doubt.
I’m not continuing this with you. Your behavior is questionable at best and I’m not really interested in getting into a slapfight with someone who is going to redact everything that doesn’t align with their view of someone else. Starting to remember why I had you blocked on lemmy.world.
Any time someone gets called after accidentally revealing an uncomfortable truth about themselves, they always pull the “reading comprehension” card. I don’t need to argue or quote or anything else. Your comments here are dripping with disdain for an entire country. You say it targets no individuals but it certainly does and that’s what you were called for. It’s textbook bigotry. Now go ahead and call me a stupid American and get it over with. Everyone reading has no doubt you’re thinking it.
Edit: it’s weird you edited in the bit about blocking me. Don’t think I’ve interacted with you before. Also, you remember every username you block? You just really need to be right. That way, you don’t have to consider how it sounds when you write the things you wrote here.
Jesus check this users modlog…
Yes some people don’t delete their accounts to hide their “controversy”.
It’s pretty telling you get this offended and personal over one fair critique
And it’s pretty telling you hate someone documenting your favorite moderator’s actions.
But then what would the European’s whine about?
