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Remember me comrades! (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 167 points 3 years ago (39 children)

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

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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