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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I think it's just annoyance at the idiomatic use of "America" when the discussion is about the Americas.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Huh, never considered that.

    It's hard to get into the minds of a sea of semi-anonymous voters to determine their motivations. I'm sure they all had their own reasons, and yours may be one of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    The minds of the sea of semi-anonymous lemmings is likely hard to understand due to endemic parochialism in the USA.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think that's part of why I can't read anyone's mind, but okay.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well it's a fairly common discussion on Lemmy, Reddit, microblogging, etc., that "America" as the USA doesn't float well outside of the USA.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Some corners of Lemmy that I haven't seen maybe, but over my decade+ of Reddit I've never seen anyone present that as an issue.

    I acknowledge it's a bit lame that only a specific part of North America calls themselves "American," but I doubt inaccurate and exclusionary endonyms are a phenomenon unique to the US.

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