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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I question if you're American. No American I've ever met says "USA". It's always "US" or "Americans". USA is only said as a chant of pride.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I swear I'm American (and it doesn't matter to me because hopefully the debate > my identity), but what would you clock me to be? Am I European or Canadian or something?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I had an American tell me that I couldn't be from the UK because I said I was British and "Nobody says that"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, why would you ever say you were br*tish?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you forget replacing the first I with a star in Br*tish, or maybe either of the emojis 🤢🤮?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I love the irony that they laugh at the way we ourselves pronounce "Briddish" 😂

[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

what would you clock me to be?

Deceptive? I've never once in my life heard an American use clock in a personal manner like that. Clocks are for telling time and counting seconds in a race.

I liked the bit about poll watching. Is this a checklist for things that will be infiltrated for the next election?

Am I a useful idiot for calling out the obvious and furthering the division?

I hate US election season in the Internet era.

For good measure so I know you're an American, post a picture of Sims - 3, with a sticky note and your username.

Edit: Just so this post gets seen... Stuxnet assassination in Minecraft, with nuclear capabilities. Thanks 🫡

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm petty sure this whole comment is satire but

I liked the bit about poll watching. Is this a checklist for things that will be infiltrated for the next election?

I'm pretty much pulling from the stuff that right-wingers have talked about infiltrating from the lowest levels and saying we should do it first. Moms for Liberty is a fascist group with actual pull. Steve Bannon wants the fashies to join local boards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I’ve never once in my life heard an American use clock in a personal manner like that

this comment is in poe's law territory but just in case, fyi: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clock#Verb