I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.
Yank and Yankee feel completely gutless to me but Seppos stuck out as both crude (referring to septic tank which rhymes with yank) and appropriate (being full of excrement). The origin is supposedly Australian.
I’m mostly just checking it doesn’t have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn’t mention.
You’re thinking of yankee. In America, yankee has connotations relating to the Union (the opposite of the Confederate separatists!) in the Civil War. (It’s actually even older, probably deriving from Dutch settlers around what is now New York, but today’s Americans will understand it in terms of the Civil War.)
Outside America, yankee just means American.
Seppo is Australian rhyming slang meaning American, building on this definition of yankee. Yank -> tank -> septic tank -> septic -> seppo.