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stormdelay 108 points 2 years ago

While you are probably correct that criticism of the USA (and of its citizens) pops up too often in unrelated topics, I think that you are basically just discovering what it is to not be the ultra dominant demographics on a platform. It doesn't mean it's right or anything, everyone should strive to make Lemmy a welcoming place, but it's certainly going to take work on both sides. That said, I would like you to re-read some of what you wrote:

and their obvious jealousy and insecurity regarding Americans

For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn't something I can say about many of you.

America controls the world, and Europeans are salty about it. I didn’t even realize how salty until I started using Lemmy

I swear to God I'ma start criticizing the metric system again

The amount of condescension dripping from your comments is frankly off the chart, and you should maybe take a minute to ponder whether you are actually behaving as you preach, rather than just being in your own American circlejerk, as you might have called it had the shoe been on the other foot.

In any way, being an admin/mod is a thankless task, so I for one appreciate you for doing that, and maybe everyone can learn a bit from sharing a community.

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stormdelay 54 points a year ago

I do not see how that's opposed to personal choice, one's liberty to smoke stops where another person's liberty to not deal with the smell and refuse begins

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stormdelay 51 points 6 months ago

Hopefully the time for negotiations is past

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stormdelay 46 points 2 years ago

(just fyi, it's "buried the lede")

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stormdelay 36 points a year ago

Being unable to comply (signal) and selectively refusing to comply while still having access to the data (telegram) is not equivalent

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stormdelay 32 points 9 months ago

Not to dismiss the general sentiment of the message, but do you think french people go across the country to protest? Do you think we don't have rent or mortgages to pay? Do you think our police isn't violent?

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stormdelay 31 points 2 years ago

Speaking English using French vocabulary is a real cheat code

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stormdelay 28 points 5 months ago path: 0 23498536 23499081 23499214 23501097 23501391 23504496 23504542, hotness: undefined, score: 28, children: 0
stormdelay 28 points 2 years ago

He's consistently been the president of the wealthy, he could have chosen to make wealthy pensioners take some of the financial burden but decided to put it all on the working population.

He also deleted a wealth tax, consistently slashed benefits for unemployment and social minimums.

On a personal level, he's had too many dealings with quite a few people implicated in criminal scandals (Sarkozy, notably) to be clean.

All that to say, I can appreciate his talks about Europe, but he's not been a good president for the french workers, and it's likely to lead to the far right being in control in a couple years, which could be a disaster for said European project.

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stormdelay 27 points 2 years ago

I'm sure your boss/manager would proactively increase your wage relatively to the extra work you asked for

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stormdelay 27 points 4 months ago

USA can complain about foreign interference when they stop being said foreign interference to everyone else

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stormdelay 24 points 2 years ago

That's fair, but somehow I never seem to see hatred directed towards any other nationality on Lemmy, aside from Americans.

You might just not hang out in the right places to see it, but anywhere there's a European political community, you will see plenty of shit talk and hate and blame being thrown around, especially towards the bigger euro countries like Germany, France and the UK (though not limited to).

I'm not saying there isn't a good explanation as to why you might have been condescending, or that you are a dumb proud maga American, or anything of the sort, but keep in mind that we can't guess what you might be thinking, all we have to go on is what you write and some of it that I highlighted does make you look a certain way.

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stormdelay 24 points 9 months ago

You are allowed proportional force in defending yourself, so if Timmy tries to hit you you are indeed allowed to hit him back insofar as it pertains to stopping harm being done to you or others.

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stormdelay 23 points 5 months ago

Net neutrality is more about the physical network, e.g. your ISP can't make google requests go fast and bing ones go slow, or not count google requests against your data cap (if you have one)

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stormdelay 20 points 2 years ago

You're of course correct in English, I just wanted to share that the currency sign goes after the value in many other languages, so it's an easy mistake for ESL people to make.

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stormdelay 19 points 4 months ago

Look up how many heatwaves happened in France during the 20th century, and how many happened in the last 10 years. Yes, weather on any single day is not climate, but we are quite past "oh heatwaves happened before".

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stormdelay 17 points 2 years ago

Correct, no comma before the last element if it is preceded by a conjunction (e.g. "et", that is "and" in English) in French

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stormdelay 17 points 9 months ago

Flying false flags is a valid reason for a country to board a ship, according to UNCLOS.

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stormdelay 17 points 8 months ago

I choose to believe you typed it from memory

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stormdelay 16 points 6 months ago

Nothing wrong with twinkmaxxing if you're queerpilled

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thanks for using Leebra!

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