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Gods, this is so accurate. A part of me wish we could just isolate the U.S. for a bit, because I’d be curious to see how that’d affect the discourse in the rest of the world. The rise of the far right and Trump legitimately being voted in as president legitimised the far-right movements in my country as well. Last election people were literally pushing for the stop-and-frisk BS to become a thing here.
I hate that I know what stop-and-frisk even is.
We need a new internet, without shootings and two party politics!
But with blackjack and hookers!
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
Yup, they’re bringing the whole world down with them
You’re just jealous it’s not Europe’s job anymore.
Ahah yes, we’re taking turns
On the bright side, if civilization doesn’t collapse we’ll eventually all get to complain about why the news is Chinese politics 24/7
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Like the rest of the worlds shit is any better. Right wing facists are on the rise everywhere. Ours are just fucking stupider.
Italy facists, brexit, climate, etc fucking whole world is a dumpster.
I’m not saying European politicians are fundamentally better, I’m just saying it’s been a while since one of them got their mugshot taken for going to jail under election fraud charges 🤷
Some of them would deserve that treatment too, I’m sure.
None of them was president though
Yeah, they tend to be prime ministers instead, looking at you Orban.
Russia and Belarus are a part of Europe too…
I think we’re happening in Poland and Hungary is worse then the US
Oh I agree, hence the “ours are stupider” comment :D
Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.
Trump was important for the rest of the world when he was… you know… the president of the US… now it’s just a little mediocre guy and I understand that all the little advances in bringing him to justice are pretty important to you guys, but I couldn’t care less.
If he ever gets elected again for some reason, then we will see the potential impact, but for now he is pretty irrelevant im afraid.
By the gods, were it to be so!
I would too so enjoy if, as if from some casement unseen, a pair of disembodied, godly hands were to reach down shoo away those br-r-rown masses from Albion and her sisters, to keep them pure!
It is a crime against Balthūre that they invented fascism in 2016!
In the meantime, I will be feasting for this day!
He wasn’t legitimately voted in, though.
In 2016? I would’ve loved to see Hillary be President but that’s not what we got.
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If that happened, the rest of the world would still find a way to talk about the US the whole time.
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Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!
Hey well seems that most of EU is working on it sadly
Between Meloni, Órban, PiS, the True Finns, etc. I think there are plenty of dumpster fires
the True Finns
I didn’t know the Samis were in charge of finland now
Let’s open nomination for “Florida Man”, EU
There’s an active war in Europe. Mediterranean countries are struggling with illegal immigrants and straight up sinking their boats. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
Is there like a framerate shortage going around right now?
Yeah this is bring-your-own-frame day, you didn’t get the memo ?
Fuck yes, 240hz gang UNITE!
Even with the low framerate it’s still highly inefficient and comes to 23MB. This is why you don’t use gif for video.
A lot of frame rate is currently being shipped to Ukraine
Like anyone’s gonna give out free frame - HA, not in this economy!
I can only inagine how sick of hearing his name europeans are, I’ve been sick of it since 2015 and I’m American. Honestly at this point I just want to go one whole day without hearing his fucking name. I can’t think of one other person that applies to in politics, celebrities, anything.
Honestly I’m more sick of hearing of Musk by now. At least with Trump there’s a sadistic part to me that keeps wondering how low reps can go, but with Musk, I’m just sick of him. I don’t care about his little tantrums at all and every little shit gets hundreds of upvotes.
In the same timeframe, we had Brexit which was our own local annoying piece of never ending shitshow
See this is my biggest gripe on people complaining about Trump.
During brexit my feed was full of Boris memes and news. It was really fucking weird watching two different countries get fucked by a fat old man with fake blonde hair
Extreme incompetence is news worthy.
I could have sworn the original had better than 240p quality…
Oh it totally can be, this is the result of a 5 seconds search, haha.
That’s just the internet mold eating at the tubes.
Where are the cleaner dudes, supposed to be spraying at them molds
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I love how most of the Lemmy instances are hosted on European servers, yet Europeans still don’t have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
US politics does not belong in World News, yet the upvote counts say otherwise. Europeans need to step up the game and encourage more other Europeans to join Kbin/Lemmy. This will never be fixed without the numbers.
Europeans still don’t have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
English is the issue. There are only about 80M people who speak English as a first language in Europe, out of 0.8 billion or so. Yeah, plenty of people who are relatively fluent in English participate in English social media, but many also spend a lot of time in social media in their own language, something English-speakers never see.
The Fediverse has a pretty big German-speaking population, but not as much French, Italian, Spanish, etc. I don’t know where they are – probably Facebook / Instagram.
Google tells me there’s like 332 million people in the US and like 750 million in Europe. I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
Are there posts Europeans make that I’m just not seeing (beyond complaints like this one), or is there something else that keeps them from posting and upvoting the content they apparently want to see in places like world news?
Europeans tend to prefer discussing local matters in their own language
Possible I missed something, but nothing I see in the world news rules about posting in languages that aren’t English. My (admittedly small) point is that nothing prevents Europeans dominating these spaces apart apparent apathy and disinterest.
but nothing I see in the world news rules about posting in languages that aren’t English
Isn’t it pretty obvious? If literally any European posted news in their native language, outside of the Brits and the Irish, it would be literally incomprehensible to 80-90% of the continent.
Not to mention (proceeds to mention) the problem that we don’t care about each other’s internal politics and don’t know enough about their context to follow them. People might follow the EU topics and the large-scale shitfests such as Brexit, French protests and of course the Russo-Ukrainian war. But that’s it.
E.g. I just realised that my country borders six other countries and I can’t name the current PM/president of two of them. (for somewhat excusable reasons, but regardless of that it’s not a good look)
As someone who lived in Europe for a bit, it seems like one reason for that is that, no matter who wins, the swings are smaller. No matter who wins in the elections, there don’t tend to be dramatic policy shifts. European politics often have multiple parties, with some parties containing complete nutters, but because those nutters are not in the main parties, the main parties are more similar.
In addition the US is the only remaining superpower, so US politics has a big impact on every European country, probably not as much as all their neighbors combined, but maybe more than any one of those neighbors on their own.
At the risk of digging myself an ever deeper hole, then…why complain? I wouldn’t ask, but I see this complaint like every few weeks or so. If it literally can’t be a thing because of how Europe is, why blame America?
We do enough like real stupid shit people can be mad at us about. This one doesn’t seem like it’s on us.
Good question, though this was my first comment in the chain, I personally wasn’t complaining (yet).
To be honest, I’ve just checked the “Top Day” sorting of /c/[email protected], and the news are all about non-USA topics. So in hindsight I guess OP was just doing the usual “lol self-centred Americans” dunking. It is a fact that American news have pushed out the other countries’ news from the default news sub on reddit and here (or more likely the system was just replicated on Lemmy by default during the migration), so it’s a sort of folklore reaction… :D
I’m probably just approaching this wrong overall. I think it’d be interesting to see more non-US posts in places like world news, and it’s not that hard for me to run non-English posts through a translator to get the gist of them.
This is probably a terrible place to express it, and I’m probably being obtuse, but I want to see that in addition to posts like this complaint. I would read that. I would upvote that.
To be honest, I’ve just checked the “Top Day” sorting of /c/[email protected], and the news are all about non-USA topics.
And now go on [email protected], there’s no indication that it’s US news only, yet it’s almost all US news.
Different states are not like literally different countries.
Exactly, different states still have their country as common ground. Most Europeans identify with their nationality first, and as a European second.
If I remember correctly, most Europeans identifiy first with their city, then with their country and third with the EU…
When asked where I’m from I say my state, I don’t say I’m American.
Yeah I don’t know any Americans that don’t do this. Like I get it, I don’t like us either, but going from Colorado to Texas is more jarring to me than going from France to Germany.
going from Colorado to Texas is more jarring to me than going from France to Germany.
Yes, going from “foreign place where I don’t speak the language” to “foreign place where I don’t speak the language” isn’t jarring because it’s all very foreign. But, the differences between France and Germany are objectively huge compared to the differences between Colorado and Texas.
…I do speak the language in one of the two, but thanks for the shitty assumption. That it’s more jarring for me between two states is my own subjective opinion. It’s almost like there’s more to culture than language.
This is ridiculous. This is why Europeans think we’re so stupid and insular, and they’re right.
People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time…
That’s not even remotely comparable to the situation in Europe.
The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.
Different states in the early 1800s might be like different European countries are today. But, today, states have a lot less power, and people generally think of themselves as American first.
In addition, European countries speak different languages. That severely limits the common ground you share with neighbouring countries.
They also have different cultures, traditions, history, etc.
Yeah, European countries have histories going back a thousand years or more. While there’s going to be some shared history in border regions (often they swapped back and forth between countries depending on who was strong and who was weak), there’s a lot of differences between them that are pretty deep seated.
If those countries shared a common language the cultures would tend to blend over time. When they speak different languages that process is a lot slower.
IMO the differences between major US cities are smaller than the differences between any given city and the rural areas surrounding that city.
Even then, different states in the early 1800s had more or less the same history/origins (colonists that arrived relatively recently)
I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
^ This guy Articles of Confederation.
(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)
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America is part of the world.
Checkmate, earthists.
They sure as hell don’t act like it though
Try being Canadian. We’ve lost all sense of self-identity here
I knew you guys were screwed when i read about Canadian screaming about “the 1st amendment” when getting arrested by the police.
We talk more about Trump here than our own politicians.
And our politicians are Trump supporters.
That must be really shitty. Force to you brother.
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Even the Newfie slang is less common
Not a shitpost, it’s a FACT. Lol
https://lemmy.world/c/notuspolitics
(I don’t know which of these you’re supposed to share, but it’s a good community).
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I’ve been trying to upload it for 1 hour, sorry for the peoples whi saw it 3 times already 😬
Nice gif
Facts
This is so accurate you could use it as a scope to shoot a fly from a rat ass all the way from across the next town.
Th…thanks ?
Welcome buddy.
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American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.
American national news is just one outrage after another.
American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.
And virtually never international, unless there’s a strong US angle.