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  • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksIf only...
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    12 hours ago

    My point is that you immediately went “Not all countries had the economy of America” but this isn’t about America and I find that both funny and sad.

    Everyone instantly goes to pointing fingers and saying “AMERICAN” and in doing so effectively treat Canada like it doesn’t exist. Either Americans are too bought into (whether they realize it or not) American Exceptionalism or foreigners are too focused on them because they’re loud as hell.


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    Okay, I agree with your sentiment but that level of harshness isn’t needed.

    Americans do seriously have a problem with putting their own country as the center of the world in a thousand different ways. American Exceptionalism is pretty severe online, and in ways most Americans aren’t even aware they’re doing, but that ain’t the way to handle it bro. I’m out here being kinda dickish about it and even that I’m second guessing myself. But that’s just a bit too harsh.