We know, realizing it isn’t the issue, it’s (oversimplified) the greed of the ones who stand in the way of making it happen.

Fair enough, yeah, I don’t wanna be confused with tankies lol

I love the US, and I want to help it be better too.

I’m not anti-america.

This is the same thing as when people get upset about saying ‘chai tea’ or ‘hound dog’

It was originally something else, people from a certain place used it differently, and now it’s its own word. I was being snarky, I myself use ‘American,’ at the end of the day, who cares?

Like I said, English speakers. English isn’t the only language, and in most other languages it’s closer to Statesman.

As I stated in a comment below, it’s like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself ‘the Bossman guy’ and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we’ll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you’re a violent bully and we don’t want to fight you on your identity issues.

And yes, language is always evolving, that’s how it works.

That’s exactly right in my opinion too, I gotcha

No it’s not, it’s “Estadounidense.”

“Estados Unidos” is United States, and “-ense” is a suffix referring to origin or belonging.

I never said enforcing, it’s more like Americans are the one friend who bought themselves a leather jacket, burst into the room, pulled down their sunglasses and said “you can now call me… The Bossman Guy” and everyone else rolled their eyes and said sure

So now everyone calls them The Bossman Guy even though he’s not even the boss

I mean, if you looked at my post history to see I was born in South America you’d have seen that I refer to myself as an American, like from the US.

That being said, using words incorrectly like “nationalist,” especially “nationalist South American,” which according to your fee-fees is a continent, not a nation, just goes to prove the point I made.

Also “colonial.” You’re just throwing buzzwords without understanding them, or rather, you’re just throwing words without understanding them.

I was clearly being snarky about it, language is ever flowing, changing, and contradicting itself with words such as ‘napron’ into ‘apron,’ ‘metaphorically’ into ‘literally,’ or the thousands of borrowed words that mean what they are like ‘hound dog’ and ‘chai tea.’

How about you stop being so blindly sensitive to someone making a sensible point about the only language you know and maybe laugh at yourself a little.

When someone says it’s stupid that in Spanish cars are male and clouds are female I don’t clutch my pearls, I laugh and agree that it’s stupid.

According to English speakers who didn’t understand the proper meaning of words like “continent,” it’s “Americans.” It’s stuck around now though.

According to most other languages and nations who use more accurate descriptors, it’s closer to “Statesman.” You know, people from the ‘United States’

I don’t like onions, but I could pick around them.

It’s hard to value a face when you’re so used to having two of them.

1. Trusting YouTube and TikTok over… Hmmm, I don’t know, the US census, US department of Labor, dozens of scholarly studies, hundreds of reputable modern American sociologists, anthropologists, and other educated people who’ve come to a general consensus, seems like a bad start to form an educated opinion.

2. The average human is sorrowfully terrible at understanding scale. “It’s not just a few people, it’s many” is a vague statement. What is many? Compared to what? “Almost 500 THOUSAND cases of cholera were reported last year!! Half a million people!! It’s going to kill us all!!” Yeah, but that’s 0.0000625% of humans. More than twice that many people die from accidents while playing sports for recreation. It doesn’t mean we don’t help people with cholera, and it doesn’t mean we ban sports globally; to use that as an example of a greater issue is just disingenuous or ignorant.

“Many” doesn’t mean most, it doesn’t even mean a considerable percentage. Many could just as easily be an insignificant percentage.

Lemmy has reminded me that many, MANY people stopped paying attention in class after 5th grade and considered “Animal Farm” a long and confusing read.

90% of IT and software jobs are “I have common sense, know how to look up information, and my boss is intimidated by my work so they don’t question it.”