Nah dude the world has just grown tired of American Exceptualism.
Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Post critical of the United States ✅
OP’s post history is generally anti-USA ✅
OP’s comment history = 0 ✅
Boy I sure wonder why you post on Lemmy… /s
Silar@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You shouldn’t be downvoted, this is yet another account that posts likely for sentiment shaping and immediately deletes their account. This sub is awash with it. I get that there’s a lot to dump on in regards to the US now more than ever but I’d really prefer it be organic posts from people who actually want to engage in the fediverse in good faith rather than whatever the fuck this manipulative bullshit is
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Should people… Not be critical? There’s always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s not that they’re being critical, it’s that someone is being shady with some sort of motive. I don’t want the fediverse to get ruined with narrative attack bs, I want to talk to real humans who aren’t trying to manipulate me. If I was cool with that I’d just go back to Reddit.
Scrollone@feddit.it 12 hours ago
I agree with you, but this is a link to a New York Times article, not some shady blog just made to push an agenda.
If people didn’t find this article interesting, they could just not upvote it.
architect@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
NYT isn’t exactly much better than a shady blog. Like most media now.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That’s cute but Lemmy has the same agenda pushing bots that Reddit has.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The poster’s account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Boost does as well, little chick popping out of an egg
paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Nice. I think it should be a standard feature. And the need is ever increasing, it seems.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.
qarbone@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Throughout history? Whose?
The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.
It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I’ve always found the other half of American exceptiolism to be equally stupid;the opinion that America is the worst country ever, ir, exceptionally evil or bad among history.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.
America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country’s “empire”.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
A lot of people in my country used to believe until very recently (and a lot others still believe) that the USA is the best country in the world (or second best because of nationalism) and that everyone wishes they could go there
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Lmao they deleted the entire account when called out. Sketchy af.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 hours ago
huh!
shalafi@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
And… deleted.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
You say all of those things as if it were specific to anti-USA posting. Lemmy is ripe and full of anti-China and anti-Russia AstroTurf-seeming accounts:
A post a week ago made a brief list of some accounts (not complete by any means)
Serinus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
anti-China and anti-Russia
Uh huh. Yeah okay.
We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
Is it not possible to portray anti-China or anti-Russian bias? Or is it that you don’t care about astroturfing when it’s done for such purpose?
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Good! These post are a good reminder that this isn’t reddit.
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
I don’t see the benefit of replacing US propaganda with anti-US propaganda.
3abas@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Is the argument presented the propaganda or the fact that it was negative?
It’s NYTimes propaganda, not exactly Russian or Chinese.
elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Sure, but does it make it less real?