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[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 164 points 1 year ago

I experience the opposite. Whenever I criticise US government, I get attacked by hordes of cringy Americans.

[-] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago

I must say I had a pleasant conversation on workers’ rights in the US recently on c/technology (lemmy.world). By pleasant I mean "not being insulted because I live in France and workers do have rights so I’m a red commie" pleasant.

[-] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the majority of Americans, as long as you are a pleasant person, you will have pleasant conversations, even if it’s about a disagreement.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

A. This leads to politeness fetishists and tone policing. If someone says something offensive like "we should remove LGBT+ books from schools," I'd rather shoot myself than speak nicely to that person.

B. This has not been my experience with my fellow Americans at all. I even saw a mod from lemmy.world post mod-flaired horseshit in their politics community about how "The US is not a racist country." Fuck that.

[-] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

🤷‍♂️ then you’re talking to different people than me idk what to tell ya

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Your instance is literally swarming with liberal transplants from reddit, so now you're just being disingenuous.

I live in the midwest, and I'm surrounded by polite fascists. Fuck politeness, and fuck this racist nation.

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[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Hi from the autistic guy that is physically unable to understand the rules of „politeness“ and burns out while pathetically trying to mimic them just to look like a creep anyway.

[-] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry friend that sounds stressful :(

I’ll give you a politeness pass and if anyone complains tell em to direct all complaints to DillonBrooksEnjoyer

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks friend! I liked your other comment as well btw.

[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

How can we have a pleasant conversation about the murders the American soldiers are committing in the Middle East? How does one be pleasant about murder?

[-] chattan00000ga@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

That's weird considering America's favourite pass time is to bitch about how shitty our government is

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah, I'm confused by this. Our government is a fucking mess right now!

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