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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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Boycott US
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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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If you'd like to be pedantic, then you'd have to use USMians or U.S. Mexicans to refer to Mexicans as they are also a collection of united States.
Mexico (and many other countries) has an official name and a unique coloquial one.
The US only has an official name and they appropriated the coloquial one which already meant the whole continent.
It wasn't an accident in language. It was deliberate.
I tend to call the USA the United States, but either you can accept the common demonym and adjective of "American" which is an entirely separate thing than the name of the country or you can not. Same for Mexico.
You can choose how you want to address people of the USA, but it's up to them to choose how they react to it. "Yankee" is another alternative that's a lot easier to say, even if they don't tend to like it.