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    21 hours ago

    “I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦

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        16 hours ago

        Those leaders are far right bootlickers.

        Including the president elect of Chile (oh god please nonono… bah he doesn’t have the congress.)

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    17 hours ago

    I knew it lol I was waiting for it. I give it 6 months until the national language has been renamed to “American” through a illegal executive order

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    21 hours ago

    They should then switch to spanish as their lingua franca for that meeting (brazillians could pull if off).
    Or switch to esperanto.

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      No shit, it would be so damn funny if the whole world just switched over to Esperanto as second language, even if only to spite US and UK. Haah, one can dream the wildest things.

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    24 hours ago

    What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?

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    19 hours ago

    There is a difference.
    American is English but limited to a child’s vocabulary. The language of simpletons

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    This is a nationalistic move. To remove the washington regime away from other english speaking countries and brand itself as something larger. It makes the washington regime seem entitled to landgrabs. It makes washingtonlings feel superior to other english speakers.

    It is as stupid as nationalism is stupid, but nationalism is great for ruling people.

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    USA is special kind of stupid that this probably gets a huge cheering back home.

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        17 hours ago

        We gotta take our licks on this one. Look what we elected. It’s like a “not all men” thing. Sure it’s not actually all of us, but it’s enough of us to be a problem.

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          I’m sorry, I don’t agree with you. I’m from California and we are sitting over here just as aghast as any European nation you could name and larger than some.

          We sent 54 electoral votes for Harris to Washington. You want to show me a European nation that did more than that to stop Trump?

          I understand Americans as a whole have a responsibility. But this guy was trying to make a specific play-by-play call about how Americans are reacting to this back home and I see no logic in sitting quietly and agreeing with that.

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      USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children, so Hegseth isn’t too popular on the home front either.

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        22 hours ago

        a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children

        Yeah, I see, that’s why that majority stopped a pedophile president from having the control of the country, or stopped his clique of rarely sober religious nationalists from starting said war.

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          lmao you’re living in a fantasy if you think Americans have the capability to stop the government through instant, direct action

          The only power we have is withholding our labor, and convincing people of the necessity of that when they’re brainwashed by capitalism is not an overnight or even over-4-years affair

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            Hadn’t said you need to necessarily do it instantly and directly, you invented it yourself just so you have something to be snippy about. Deliberate work over time is also good.
            Doesn’t matter though, you’re not doing either. Or you’re so ineffective it’s indistinguishable from not doing anything.

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        It’s doesn’t worth much since the majority just keep his ass tight seat waiting for a “miracle” or a “magic savior” for their situation.

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        Sounds to me like both of you are correct: most Americans don’t like him but there are still millions of them who cheer him and his kind of populist actions and words.

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      Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

      It gives the rest of us a heads up that we should use small words so they can understand.

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        Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

        I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn’t make senses on its own, it shouldn’t be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.

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          looks like a punctuation error to me. I would have written it this way:

          Honestly—the way they’re speaking—I’m fine with them calling it ‘“american.”

          You could separate the interjection with commas or parentheses too. the em dashes give some extra emphasis, while commas make it blend in a bit better.

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          It’s supposed to be a comma, an Oxford comma to be precise. But punctuation and comma are right next to eachother on my phone so, mistakes happen.

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        Or use big words when we don’t want them to understand.

        Not sure if this is common knowledge among English speaking countries, but we in non English speaking countries use English when we don’t want our small kids to understand what we’re saying. 🫣

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            I think we’ll be able to tell when they do. Guess that’s a good time to start learning sign language lol.

            Joking aside, I’ve come to understand that speaking a language in front of your kids that they can’t understand isn’t really a nice thing to do. Makes them feel excluded, and isn’t really cool to do to an adult so shouldn’t be cool to do to a child either.

            Better to talk openly or just wait until you’re alone. 👍 For all the parents out there.

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      It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now… the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.

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        It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now

        Don’t sell us short, it’s also an accurate snapshot of the legislative and judicial branches, as well as about 30% of the general population!

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          When he starts getting in his feelings about not being able to take over Ukraine I bet how bad he’s managed to fuck up our government is salve for his wounds.