When someone says American, they mean a USA resident. I don’t know anyone who would assume they mean a Canadian and/or Mexican, since you use those terms for them.
And if you are you’re just being obtuse or argumentative.
In English, the correct demonym for a citizen of the United States of America is “American”. There have been others that somewhat are accepted but are not universal like “Yankee” which half the population would take great offense to.
It isn’t centering the world on us to call ourselves Americans, it’s the only thing that works in the language and is accepted by everyone it applies to. Call a Canadian an “american” and watch how quickly they correct you.
I’ve seen people propose “United statesian” but there 2 problems with that, first it does not flow well in English, second that doesn’t actually fix the problem since there’s still be ambiguity with people living in the United Mexican States.
The whole world uses that term, since the other countries are covered by other terms, or other encompassing terms like I explained already.
When someone says American, what country do you think they come from? You just said you know what North Americans are, so you wouldn’t include Canada or single out Canada there.
American has never meant an all encompassing term for north/central/south America, where the hell did you get this idea from?
but technically you could be talk about a Canadian or……
No… that would be a North American or Canadian. You already covered this yourself.
Give your head a shake and get lost. I’m not even going to ask how you think it’s harmful lmfao, trying to dilute an established word is harmful, which is what YOU are doing. Fucking hell dude.
What countries have the word “America” in them? How many countries in the Americas are “united States”?
What do you call a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
For the record, The United States of America is the only country with the word America in it’s name. Our immediate neighbor, The United Mexican States, is another country you could, but no one would, plausibly call the United States.
The British isles contains two countries, Ireland and the UK. One of these is the home of the British, and the other would be much happier if you didn’t call them that.
Insisting that you not refer to the people of a country by the most unique name in the countries name, because the geographic region has that word in common is … Odd.
“Central America” is in North America. Racists just pretend it’s not so they don’t have to mentally grapple with brown people natively being on the same continent as themselves.
Your point being you are making up a new definition and calling everyone else wrong? I also didn’t even notice your username, you’re just being bloody obtuse.
America, where there is an actively sitting known pedophile president protecting a group of elite pedophiles
Well, we’re not trying that hard. Seriously, it takes one person to put an end to all this misery and yet we don’t. Until there’s real progress in the US, it’s safe to say that each and every American supports our presidents actions if nothing else through refusal to stop him.
Gonna take a lot more than one person to end it. The president is just the cream of the crap. It’ll take dismantling the power of his cronies, their wealth/businesses, and their supporters. From the billionaires to the paycheck-to-paycheckaires that scream bloody murder when you suggest taxing their heroes to fund the welfare they think they’re entitled to but is a theft when someone else receives it, the problem isn’t just in high offices. It’s living next door to you and will vote this hate in again even if the current regime is removed.
Then it would take one more at that point. Solve enough problems and eventually people will realize they need to stop creating them. Or solve your neighbors. As long as someone is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING against the biggest problem, the rest of them can wait until someone is ready to solve them. When the biggest issue is dealt with, then we can start solving the smaller ones.
Define biggest problem. Is it the figurehead that has been empowered or the culture of hate that empowered it? Removing the head might lessen the impact short term, but not addressing the real issue that is the culture of hate will just send it to ground, breed a sense of victimhood and lost cause, and pass it on until it surfaces again. On the flipside, start killing your MAGA neighbors (which are more easily accessible than the office holders) and you’re just an unhinged lone wolf that won’t get very far before you’re killed or arrested, plus you’re just adding to the narrative that “these are dangerous people that must be eliminated”. It risks everything, gains little, and strengthens them. Scale that up to thousands of people the ing on their neighbors and you’ve moved on to genocide, which even if you win isn’t going to impress the global community. Great, America’s no longer a Christo-fascist oligarchy, all it took was half of them liquidating the other half… And what do you do with the kids? Kill them along with the parents? Send them off to be reindoctrinated? I have a hard time believing someone who watched their parents get murdered over political beliefs is going to have an easy time growing up compliant in the system where their parent’s killers won.
It’s going to be a mix of fighting, lives and livelihoods getting lost, and consequences like being stripped of the rights to hold offices, own businesses, and vote- things that should have happened to those who participated in the Confederacy- to win. A lot more than one person is going to have to get their hands dirty with the knowledge they might not live to see it through, and it even then what they’ve done will be on their conscience for the remainder of their lives. You ever killed anyone? Ever beaten someone so savagely they had to go to the ER? Even if you can live comfortably with having done it because you feel morally justified, still weighs on you when you consider “goddamn, I beat the ever loving fuck out of that person and don’t feel bad”.
I’ve found most people aren’t as comfortable with committing violence as they are talking about it or empowering others to do it for them, so I’m not at all surprised we don’t have a lot of lone wolves murdering their MAGA neighbors, just packs of state sanctioned thugs called cops doing it on behalf of their handlers.
Whatever we do, however we fight back, not one of us alive today is going to get to live in a decent world. We’re here to duke it out for the foundation of what kind of society our grandkids and great grandkids get to live in, and even then they’re going to have to work to preserve their version of it because hate, intolerance, greed, and entitlement always reinvent themselves.
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When someone says American, they mean a USA resident. I don’t know anyone who would assume they mean a Canadian and/or Mexican, since you use those terms for them.
And if you are you’re just being obtuse or argumentative.
Thank you.
Dude feels like a flat earther about this.
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Why? You have North Americans and South Americans to cover the others?
What else would you need to include in the term Americans?
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Just casually ignoring Mexico as part of North America says everything I need to know about how intelligent you are.
Name checks out, you’re obtuse.
In English, the correct demonym for a citizen of the United States of America is “American”. There have been others that somewhat are accepted but are not universal like “Yankee” which half the population would take great offense to.
It isn’t centering the world on us to call ourselves Americans, it’s the only thing that works in the language and is accepted by everyone it applies to. Call a Canadian an “american” and watch how quickly they correct you.
I’ve seen people propose “United statesian” but there 2 problems with that, first it does not flow well in English, second that doesn’t actually fix the problem since there’s still be ambiguity with people living in the United Mexican States.
The whole world uses that term, since the other countries are covered by other terms, or other encompassing terms like I explained already.
When someone says American, what country do you think they come from? You just said you know what North Americans are, so you wouldn’t include Canada or single out Canada there.
American has never meant an all encompassing term for north/central/south America, where the hell did you get this idea from?
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Is it an ambiguous term or the whole world uses it?
I’ve never seen that term before.
No one has. I live in Canada. If anyone called me ‘American’ I’d take compete offence to the word. If they called me North American, I’d nod.
OP is an idiot.
I’ve only ever seen it used on lemmy. I don’t like it. Mostly because I don’t know how to pronounce it.
No… that would be a North American or Canadian. You already covered this yourself.
Give your head a shake and get lost. I’m not even going to ask how you think it’s harmful lmfao, trying to dilute an established word is harmful, which is what YOU are doing. Fucking hell dude.
Asshole.
What countries have the word “America” in them? How many countries in the Americas are “united States”?
What do you call a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
For the record, The United States of America is the only country with the word America in it’s name. Our immediate neighbor, The United Mexican States, is another country you could, but no one would, plausibly call the United States.
The British isles contains two countries, Ireland and the UK. One of these is the home of the British, and the other would be much happier if you didn’t call them that.
Insisting that you not refer to the people of a country by the most unique name in the countries name, because the geographic region has that word in common is … Odd.
“Central America” is in North America. Racists just pretend it’s not so they don’t have to mentally grapple with brown people natively being on the same continent as themselves.
Your point being you are making up a new definition and calling everyone else wrong? I also didn’t even notice your username, you’re just being bloody obtuse.
Bold move cotton.
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American (read by the entire world as USA) culture is the problem.
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Wasn’t the CNN just conducting a poll about the Iran invasion and around 100% of maga was for it, and like 35% of democrats too?
Like insane numbers (am home w bad cold might write errors).
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Well, we’re not trying that hard. Seriously, it takes one person to put an end to all this misery and yet we don’t. Until there’s real progress in the US, it’s safe to say that each and every American supports our presidents actions if nothing else through refusal to stop him.
Gonna take a lot more than one person to end it. The president is just the cream of the crap. It’ll take dismantling the power of his cronies, their wealth/businesses, and their supporters. From the billionaires to the paycheck-to-paycheckaires that scream bloody murder when you suggest taxing their heroes to fund the welfare they think they’re entitled to but is a theft when someone else receives it, the problem isn’t just in high offices. It’s living next door to you and will vote this hate in again even if the current regime is removed.
Then it would take one more at that point. Solve enough problems and eventually people will realize they need to stop creating them. Or solve your neighbors. As long as someone is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING against the biggest problem, the rest of them can wait until someone is ready to solve them. When the biggest issue is dealt with, then we can start solving the smaller ones.
Define biggest problem. Is it the figurehead that has been empowered or the culture of hate that empowered it? Removing the head might lessen the impact short term, but not addressing the real issue that is the culture of hate will just send it to ground, breed a sense of victimhood and lost cause, and pass it on until it surfaces again. On the flipside, start killing your MAGA neighbors (which are more easily accessible than the office holders) and you’re just an unhinged lone wolf that won’t get very far before you’re killed or arrested, plus you’re just adding to the narrative that “these are dangerous people that must be eliminated”. It risks everything, gains little, and strengthens them. Scale that up to thousands of people the ing on their neighbors and you’ve moved on to genocide, which even if you win isn’t going to impress the global community. Great, America’s no longer a Christo-fascist oligarchy, all it took was half of them liquidating the other half… And what do you do with the kids? Kill them along with the parents? Send them off to be reindoctrinated? I have a hard time believing someone who watched their parents get murdered over political beliefs is going to have an easy time growing up compliant in the system where their parent’s killers won.
It’s going to be a mix of fighting, lives and livelihoods getting lost, and consequences like being stripped of the rights to hold offices, own businesses, and vote- things that should have happened to those who participated in the Confederacy- to win. A lot more than one person is going to have to get their hands dirty with the knowledge they might not live to see it through, and it even then what they’ve done will be on their conscience for the remainder of their lives. You ever killed anyone? Ever beaten someone so savagely they had to go to the ER? Even if you can live comfortably with having done it because you feel morally justified, still weighs on you when you consider “goddamn, I beat the ever loving fuck out of that person and don’t feel bad”.
I’ve found most people aren’t as comfortable with committing violence as they are talking about it or empowering others to do it for them, so I’m not at all surprised we don’t have a lot of lone wolves murdering their MAGA neighbors, just packs of state sanctioned thugs called cops doing it on behalf of their handlers.
Whatever we do, however we fight back, not one of us alive today is going to get to live in a decent world. We’re here to duke it out for the foundation of what kind of society our grandkids and great grandkids get to live in, and even then they’re going to have to work to preserve their version of it because hate, intolerance, greed, and entitlement always reinvent themselves.