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if Lemmy continues to display outright hostility and toxicity towards Americans at every turn, there is virtually no chance that this platform will ever develop beyond its current fringe status.
I’ve always had thick skin and an open mind, so if I’m getting annoyed by it, my assumption is that most other Americans will find it intolerable. And although we don’t need to be a majority American site by any means, the sheer numbers dictate that if Americans find this site intolerable, it will never achieve mainstream success.
And if I hear one more fucking person say that America only joined World War 2 after it was already over, or that we were cowards for not joining sooner, I swear to God I’ma start criticizing the metric system again
In the comments that led to this post:
I’m American, and the fact that people would accuse me of being a Russian troll is deliciously ironic to me 😂. For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn’t something I can say about many of you.
another example of circlejerking Europeans doing everything they can to ensure no American would ever want to use Lemmy by acting like morally superior douchebags.
America controls the world, and Europeans are salty about it. I didn’t even realize how salty until I started using Lemmy
a symptom of the relatively larger proportion of Europeans on this site, and their obvious jealousy and insecurity regarding Americans. I still believe that is the most likely explanation.
The number of times that I have seen people refer to the American contribution to WWII as cowardice, meaningless, etc, is too damn high. 400,000 Americans died in that war. Read a fucking history book you ignorant, insensitive fucks.
Some people are smarter and think more independently, while most tend to accept the dominant narrative, because thinking for yourself is emotionally and mentally draining. I would bet my left nut that the average lemming is smarter than the average redditor.
Ultimately, it’s up to the more intelligent people to determine what is true and false, and the best way to do that is through open, uncensored debate.
Damn homies, did you really have to chop me up like that? Couldn’t you have at least done me the justice of leaving my prose intact and judging me based on my carefully constructed comments and arguments? Everything is intentionally out of order, that’s such a lame and transparent tactic.
After all, we all know your reaction would have been identical regardless, because conclusions precede arguments when it comes to this server. For you, arguments are just the rubble you fill in to form a shaky foundation to the conclusions which you have already predetermined. Confirmation bias just hits different, am I right?
Tbh I just skimmed this thread, but the only halfway relevant counterpoint I saw was that Russia and China get plenty of hate on Lemmy too. Congratulations, at least one of you is not completely incapable of rational thought. The obvious response is that Russian and Chinese nationals don’t use Lemmy, so it doesn’t matter whether or not they get hate (within the context of my argument), because they’re not reading any of this anyway. They have no impact on the success of Lemmy, aside from their successful infiltration of hexbear, which is fairly transparent to the rest of us.
I also enjoyed that the only one of you with the gumption to grant the slightest point in my favor, although of course hedging with some strong condemnation in the very next sentence, received two lemmygrad downvotes for their trouble. Could it be that the American/European divide exists between hexbear/lemmygrad as well?
I really struck a nerve with that point, and it’s quite satisfying to see the massive reaction it provoked. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
But by far my favorite part of this post was the fact that OP mistakenly used the word prosecuted when they meant to say persecuted, and not a single one of you even realized or mentioned it. In fact, one of you replicated the mistake in your comment. Really not beating the allegations of being Russian/Chinese agents here 😂. Or for that matter, the allegations of being larping edgelord teenagers, or even just moderately unintelligent individuals who overcompensate for their abject confusion and insecurity by clinging to a black and white worldview based on a rudimentary conception of Marxism along with dubious claims of solidarity and empathy for the working class.
It’s actually the perfect scenario, because one of my most arrogant claims during that rant has been clearly demonstrated, accidentally, by my staunchest opponents. I claimed that my command of the English language ruled me out as a foreign agent, and the community many suspect to be riddled with foreign agents gave wind to my sails retrospectively by making an elementary definitional mistake in their attempt to mock me. God bless you hexbearians, never change.
Lol you really typed all that out huh
Yea and a couple other comments also, but it seems that hexbear purged the others before they even federated to lemm.ee. They were probably just too slow to purge this one, which is why you can see it.
Misanthrophic cowards living in a censored bubble and being violently hateful towards everyone else while immediately deleting any criticism that comes back their way. What a sad state of affairs.