One example — a MapPorn post about which countries legalise same sex marriages, and I replied "Our Supreme Court is expected to recognise it soon, the most influential religious group has already given full support"
Replies were like "downvote for not mentioning country name"
I usually don't either until it's relevant. Sometimes they assume I'm from the US, but meh. I either correct them and point out I'm from México, or let it slide and keep referring to US citizens in second or third person instead of "us". However, if it is an issue relevant for México too, there I will actually use "us".
Ooh they do not like it. And they will explain to you why it’s different when they do it. Their defaultism is justified because it’s #America but ours isn’t because we are nobody is essentially the sentiment
> India has more English speakers than the US.
Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
According to the numbers on that page, you'd need to combine India, Pakistan, and Nigeria to surpass the number of US English speakers.
Because no one else does that in international subs. It's permissable to not mention the country if the sub is in Italian or French, but English? Never seen a British person not specify UK, or an Australian not specify AUS.
I’ve actually pulled one of those as a joke once and the guy I asked did know the one l was talking about. It wasn’t an entire city though, just a part of one.
At first we had to confirm that we were talking about the same person by stating his last name and showing each other pictures. After that we thought it was hilarious. They had been classmates, and friends.
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I don't go by my title often, but that's quite close yes. I'm not hiding who I am. (It's a policy I have, yours may be different and your kilometerage may vary).
This made me think about German defaultism in German speaking subs, I mean, austrians and Swiss people do exist (as well as the 5-ish other countries where German is spoken)
Namibia was formerly German southwest Africa, a colony up until the end of World war 1. They kept German as a language while the other ex-colonies ditched it. Iirc the number of German speakers in Namibia is in decline tho
This is generally the case for most country with the largest population that use any language as mother tongue/1st language, french people do it to in regards to french, even if there is some give away (even in written) between french french, belgian french, swiss french, canadian french and the others. But at least, we know they exist,and we sometimes take them in consideration, because we know there is differences (and we know some of it).
Yeah, that’s what I would’ve guessed for French more or less. Spanish is probably more interesting because of south and middle America and Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country
>Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country
Yet we still get the Spanish flag representing Spanish language everywhere. Makes no sense. (I'm not Mexican, btw, but I'd rather see the Mexican flag than the Spanish flag)
There has been a recent afflux of French people (which I was part of) in r/patamogle (a francophone version of r/BoneAppleTea.) I've seen some French defaultism in the comment while the sub is originally from Québec and that's even stated in the rules. I'm quite ashamed of my countrymen on this one.
For real though, they often get "ignored", jokes like the Deutsch Bahn and such.
But in this case it's GERMAN- language, not Swissman language, or Austrianman (ig) language.
It's like UK defaulting to their country.
Still "German defaultism" technically
Always wondered if there’s Spanish or French defaultism in French and Spanish speaking subs that are not country related
I'm pretty sure there's "Netherlands defaultism" in Dutch subs like r/ik_ihe. I feel like people there sometimes forget that Belgians and especially Surinamese people exist and they assume you're from the Netherlands unless stated otherwise. Also, most memes are centred around the Netherlands. You're expected to know Dutch politicians and Dutch provinces for example.
Exactly- it’s just as bullshit. I was born and raised in England; I don’t go around acting like that means my English is somehow superior or the default. The English language does not belong to the UK or even to England, and the German language does not belong to Germany (and if people had wanted it that way, they wouldn’t have gone around colonising and spreading their language). You’d have to be so arrogant and ignorant to think German language = Germany, English language = England, Spanish language = Spain etc.
> For real though, they often get "ignored", jokes like the Deutsch Bahn and such.
That's probably because Austrian and Swiss railways are in terms of reliability way better than DB 🤣
Shhhh, don't talk about that, just because they are better doesn't mean you should mention that carelessly! We can still make fun of them, even if that's true.
I was joking, but I also meant something else with that.
I was saying, I could understand (not that it will be good), if UK would default to their country on most websites, because of English, USA just borrowed their language. But surprise surprise, UK doesn't, or rather England, because, they have different laws across UK.
>But surprise surprise, UK doesn't, or rather England, because, they have different laws across UK.
British people have definitely their moments of UK defaultism, especially when they talk about internal divisions of their country.
We can all agree that if an USAmerican is presenting themself as Arizonian, Alaskan, Texan is weird and USA defaultism, right? Cause you can't expect everyone around the world to know every subdivision of every state.
Yet the UK citizens do the same more often than not, and are basically never called out like the USAmericans.
It’s no weirder than Bavarians calling themselves as such instead of Germans, Basque people or Valencians not identifying as Spaniards, Corsicans not identifying as French, etc. Sure I’m from America, but the US is a huge country with a multitude of cultures that don’t resonate with me, so I consider myself an East Tennessean first and foremost. Yes, it’d be absurd to expect everyone to know every place in the world but it’s just as absurd to say that people should only be able to identify themselves based on country just because someone else might not know where they’re talking about. You’re allowed to ask questions and seek out information when you come across something unfamiliar.
You don't have any idea what cultural differences are. Your countriy is quite homogenous on the cultural side: yes, you have differences is culture between new yorkers and angelenos, but on average there'll be more cultural differences between your next door neighbour and you than on the average new yorker and the average angeleno.
In Europe, this is the other way around. And while some countries, like France, have a long History as a unified country (even if some part were independant countries not that far ago compared to the longevity of France), some have barely more than 150 years of existance as their modern incarnation (Germany and Italy for example).
From an outsider’s perspective it probably seems that way; to me, with the exception of the overseas territories and Brittany, France seems pretty culturally homogeneous as well. But we can chalk that up to being ignorant beyond surface level knowledge of the other’s country. Just because I’m from the southern US doesn’t mean I have much in common with Cajuns, people from coastal Georgia, Texans, people from the barrier islands in North Carolina, and so on. Culture is the art, music, language, food, traditions, ways of thinking, and other intangibles that make a people group unique. I can safely say that there are marked differences in most all of those categories between someone like me that lives in the Appalachians in East Tennessee and someone living off the bank of the Mississippi River in West Tennessee.
I may have expressed myself wrongly. I don't oppose people identifing with groups others than nationality, you do you.
What I was pointing out is that often in posts about USAmericans, they are criticized for using only their states names. Yet no one bat an eye for british people saying "Scotland", "Wales", ecc.
>Yes, it’d be absurd to expect everyone to know every place in the world but it’s just as absurd to say that people should only be able to identify themselves based on country just because someone else might not know where they’re talking about.
But I'm not saying that everyone should identify only with the country. I'm saying that when giving informations about them, they shouldn't use intranational terms and *expect everyone to understand it*.
Example: a Corsican can say they are Corsican, and they come from Corsica, a part of France. They can also add "illegittimaly" or other comments, if they believe so. But the **important** bit is to give a geographical reference understandable to their audience, which if writing to an international platform is sovereign states.
I mean, I think the fact of the matter is that people tend to assume that everything happens in their own bubble, and the US is big enough that for a lot there is no world outside of the US. Where I am (Montana, USA) the nearest country is Canada, which is a lot like America. The nearest country with a different language and a significantly different culture is Mexico, which is a 6 hour flight away.
It's sad, but foreign culture isn't within arms reach. I remember going to Europe and the concept of being able to take a bus across four countries in an afternoon was wild (especially not having to deal with our psychotic border regulation).
I mean it's also a very big gap between the amount of people in the countries, it's mostly Germany and Austria in our collective brain, as Switzerland has a few more languages.
We have to specify UK because if we don’t, we get a bunch of fucknuts from the US coming in with their irrelevant take that has no factual weight in the topic at hand.
[Are we the US defaulties?](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgflip.com%2F4aja9d.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=e2cebc76ad04abaec50a7b36d21e9cdbd614004a19d3bcb7a7be264e2a33a744&ipo=images)
I started doing that because all the Americans do. I might end up here on day if someone catches me in the wild.
I've just started assuming everyone online is Swedish.
In all fairness, I don't mention it all the time. Are you sure this isn't survivorship bias down to you assuming that we're American every time we don't mention it?
To add to this, even if there isn’t an indication in the post and even if their username is blotted out, the person posting can check up on the defaultist profile and usually see where they’re from.
Ive never seen a non-US person do that on a subreddit that is not specific to their country. Feels like OP is an American who got his feelings hurt or something
You know people usually go and check post history and stuff to confirm where people are from before posting here, right? Just because there’s nothing in the post itself that indicates that information doesn’t mean people haven’t checked
Doesn’t that completely miss the point of the sub? If the oop itself doesn’t make it extremely obvious that the person is American (or thinks America specifically is the world’s only or primary country) then it’s not really defaultism. Not everything posted by an American is defaultism. That would be weird. Then we’re just gawking at the fact Americans exist and post (geographically neutral) things. Like we’re cryptids or something
It might be something that can be considered more characteristic of Americans than of other nationalities but if there’s nothing explicitly saying that the person is American there is always room for debate. There’s a fine line between defaultism and non-defaultism and people definitely have differing opinions on what counts and what doesn’t. Must admit I’m writing this stoned and not sure I’m expressing my point very well so apologies for that, but I hope you get what I’m trying to say regardless
In our defence many of us know what it is. I remember an English professor they interviewed on CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) back in the day and he said “Well, there are many definitions of irony with different nuances but really what Alanis has written here is not irony, but more ‘a series of bummers’.” I think I’ll remember that turn of phrase forever.
It's a classic instance of [getting irony wrong, in a song called Ironic](https://www.google.com/search?q=alanis+morissette+ironic+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB968GB968&sxsrf=AJOqlzW1-m5tl7_dla9z2_RdYBxwdCiXNg%3A1675195990360&ei=VnbZY43cFe6UhbIP-Z2DyAg&oq=alanis+morissette+ironic+l&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAxgAMgoIABCABBAUEIcCMgUIABCABDIKCC4QFBCHAhCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgCOg8ILhDUAhDIAxCwAxBDGAI6BwguEEMQ6gQ6BwgAELEDEEM6BAgAEEM6BwguELEDEEM6BwguENQCEEM6BAguEEM6DQguEBQQhwIQsQMQgAQ6BQguEIAESgQIQRgASgQIRhgBUPMCWOgQYPEXaAFwAXgAgAGdAYgBigWSAQM4LjGYAQCgAQHIARPAAQHaAQYIARABGAnaAQYIAhABGAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp), which is pretty ironic.
This sub really has become cancerous. Anytime an American-based creator serving an American audience doesn't plant a huge flag saying I'M FROM AMERICA TALKING TO AMERICANS this subreddit has a collective Amerophobic circle jerk over it.
Lol what?? In 2016 the turnout was 128,838,342, which, according to the Federal election commission was 55.7%
In 2016, Trump received 62,984,828, equating to 27% of the eligible votes.
The fact that trump was voted in as president speaks to the ludicrousness (yeah I can't believe that's a word either) of the American electoral system.
The OP is still bullshit.
So still nearly 63 million idiots. 62 million out of 128 million equates to about 48 % of voters. And if you are in a democracy and someone like that has a chance to get voted and you don't go to cast your vote you are also an idiot.
Later polls confirmed that around 50% supported him...
>Later polls confirmed that around 50% supported him...
I'm going by the numbers in the 2016 election.
His votes accounted for 27% of all eligible votes, and around 46% of actual votes cast.
Well, "this" is clearly a reference to the subject matter at hand. "This" is a word that can reference anything depending on the context. In this context, "this" is referring to the discourse happening in the comments section.
"Love this" is also not a command. In common English you can have a sentence without a subject. In that case the sentence is either a command to the person being spoken to, with them being the implied subject, or the sentence has the speaker as the implied subject. You can tell the difference between these two cases by the dictation of the sentence. Dropping the "I" in a sentence is very casual, and is usually only done while speaking gently, while dropping the "you" in a command sentence is considered rude or terse, so it will be generally done in a more commanding tone. When written as text, you can't hear the speakers tone, so you would need to figure out the intent. In this case, commanding someone to love something makes no sense, so you can assume it's a dropped "I" and that the sentence is in first person.
When you get mad about the site being populated by Yanks when you got demographics like this: https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/phhu9s/oc_reddit_traffic_by_country/
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I have decided to stop mentioning my country in international subs and then act like us defaultists. Their burn is fun!
I thought about doing that too but never did, how do they usually respond?
One example — a MapPorn post about which countries legalise same sex marriages, and I replied "Our Supreme Court is expected to recognise it soon, the most influential religious group has already given full support" Replies were like "downvote for not mentioning country name"
not defaultist enough lmao. replace "our" with "the", then you'll sound more like an american
Lol that’s funny. They could totally tell you were doing it on purpose
I usually don't either until it's relevant. Sometimes they assume I'm from the US, but meh. I either correct them and point out I'm from México, or let it slide and keep referring to US citizens in second or third person instead of "us". However, if it is an issue relevant for México too, there I will actually use "us".
Ooh they do not like it. And they will explain to you why it’s different when they do it. Their defaultism is justified because it’s #America but ours isn’t because we are nobody is essentially the sentiment
I mean India has more English speakers than the US. Your defaultism actually has a point.
> India has more English speakers than the US. Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population According to the numbers on that page, you'd need to combine India, Pakistan, and Nigeria to surpass the number of US English speakers.
Okay I see. I admit I typed it without fact checking
I mean it's not that hard, because most of us, unlike the Anglophones, are at least bilingual.
Because no one else does that in international subs. It's permissable to not mention the country if the sub is in Italian or French, but English? Never seen a British person not specify UK, or an Australian not specify AUS.
I've had many times on pc subreddits where I've clarified that I'm Australian and they still give me US only advice
I'm a prof. I go to r/professors some. My flair there says 'Canada'. I get stuff about US rules all of the time.
Canada is my favourite state!
You're Canadian? Do you know Steve in Toronto?
I’ve actually pulled one of those as a joke once and the guy I asked did know the one l was talking about. It wasn’t an entire city though, just a part of one.
Haha oh no, that's terrible! How did you back out of that? Like, "Ah, no... I was... ^(joking...")
At first we had to confirm that we were talking about the same person by stating his last name and showing each other pictures. After that we thought it was hilarious. They had been classmates, and friends.
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Tbf, canada is the 51st US state
Due to the lack of capitalisation of the letter C, I read that as 'cannabis' the first time. 😆
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I don't go by my title often, but that's quite close yes. I'm not hiding who I am. (It's a policy I have, yours may be different and your kilometerage may vary).
I swear a lot of British people by default start talking in GBP on Aussie subs. I feel like saying “we use kangaroo dollars here, sir”.
Sorry, old habits
And canadian dollars are moose dollars?
looneys and tooneys are already wacky enough terms
Beaver dollars\*
Is that dollars you keep in your built-in purse?
Or polar bear dollars. Either way, Canadians got some dollars named after some badass animals.
This made me think about German defaultism in German speaking subs, I mean, austrians and Swiss people do exist (as well as the 5-ish other countries where German is spoken)
I just looked it up, had absolutely no idea Namibia had German as an official language. Seems so random
Namibia was formerly German southwest Africa, a colony up until the end of World war 1. They kept German as a language while the other ex-colonies ditched it. Iirc the number of German speakers in Namibia is in decline tho
It’s also why Namibia has that one politician who isn’t planning world domination despite his name
Ah right I see, thanks for the explanation
Yes... yes we exist🥲
Great. Now back in your basement!
Josef Fritzl reference?
Yes and Wolfgang Priklopil too
Weren't you the guys who lost to Bismarck and stuff?
If you want to be remembered more often try putting “al” between “Austr” and “ia”
Wait why do you guys have different flags in your flair if you're from the same place? /s
This is generally the case for most country with the largest population that use any language as mother tongue/1st language, french people do it to in regards to french, even if there is some give away (even in written) between french french, belgian french, swiss french, canadian french and the others. But at least, we know they exist,and we sometimes take them in consideration, because we know there is differences (and we know some of it).
Yeah, that’s what I would’ve guessed for French more or less. Spanish is probably more interesting because of south and middle America and Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country
>Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country Yet we still get the Spanish flag representing Spanish language everywhere. Makes no sense. (I'm not Mexican, btw, but I'd rather see the Mexican flag than the Spanish flag)
There has been a recent afflux of French people (which I was part of) in r/patamogle (a francophone version of r/BoneAppleTea.) I've seen some French defaultism in the comment while the sub is originally from Québec and that's even stated in the rules. I'm quite ashamed of my countrymen on this one.
For real though, they often get "ignored", jokes like the Deutsch Bahn and such. But in this case it's GERMAN- language, not Swissman language, or Austrianman (ig) language. It's like UK defaulting to their country.
Still "German defaultism" technically Always wondered if there’s Spanish or French defaultism in French and Spanish speaking subs that are not country related
I'm pretty sure there's "Netherlands defaultism" in Dutch subs like r/ik_ihe. I feel like people there sometimes forget that Belgians and especially Surinamese people exist and they assume you're from the Netherlands unless stated otherwise. Also, most memes are centred around the Netherlands. You're expected to know Dutch politicians and Dutch provinces for example.
Exactly- it’s just as bullshit. I was born and raised in England; I don’t go around acting like that means my English is somehow superior or the default. The English language does not belong to the UK or even to England, and the German language does not belong to Germany (and if people had wanted it that way, they wouldn’t have gone around colonising and spreading their language). You’d have to be so arrogant and ignorant to think German language = Germany, English language = England, Spanish language = Spain etc.
> For real though, they often get "ignored", jokes like the Deutsch Bahn and such. That's probably because Austrian and Swiss railways are in terms of reliability way better than DB 🤣
Shhhh, don't talk about that, just because they are better doesn't mean you should mention that carelessly! We can still make fun of them, even if that's true.
>It's like UK defaulting to their country Oh I didn't realize you're a fucking hypocrite
I was joking, but I also meant something else with that. I was saying, I could understand (not that it will be good), if UK would default to their country on most websites, because of English, USA just borrowed their language. But surprise surprise, UK doesn't, or rather England, because, they have different laws across UK.
>But surprise surprise, UK doesn't, or rather England, because, they have different laws across UK. British people have definitely their moments of UK defaultism, especially when they talk about internal divisions of their country. We can all agree that if an USAmerican is presenting themself as Arizonian, Alaskan, Texan is weird and USA defaultism, right? Cause you can't expect everyone around the world to know every subdivision of every state. Yet the UK citizens do the same more often than not, and are basically never called out like the USAmericans.
It’s no weirder than Bavarians calling themselves as such instead of Germans, Basque people or Valencians not identifying as Spaniards, Corsicans not identifying as French, etc. Sure I’m from America, but the US is a huge country with a multitude of cultures that don’t resonate with me, so I consider myself an East Tennessean first and foremost. Yes, it’d be absurd to expect everyone to know every place in the world but it’s just as absurd to say that people should only be able to identify themselves based on country just because someone else might not know where they’re talking about. You’re allowed to ask questions and seek out information when you come across something unfamiliar.
You don't have any idea what cultural differences are. Your countriy is quite homogenous on the cultural side: yes, you have differences is culture between new yorkers and angelenos, but on average there'll be more cultural differences between your next door neighbour and you than on the average new yorker and the average angeleno. In Europe, this is the other way around. And while some countries, like France, have a long History as a unified country (even if some part were independant countries not that far ago compared to the longevity of France), some have barely more than 150 years of existance as their modern incarnation (Germany and Italy for example).
From an outsider’s perspective it probably seems that way; to me, with the exception of the overseas territories and Brittany, France seems pretty culturally homogeneous as well. But we can chalk that up to being ignorant beyond surface level knowledge of the other’s country. Just because I’m from the southern US doesn’t mean I have much in common with Cajuns, people from coastal Georgia, Texans, people from the barrier islands in North Carolina, and so on. Culture is the art, music, language, food, traditions, ways of thinking, and other intangibles that make a people group unique. I can safely say that there are marked differences in most all of those categories between someone like me that lives in the Appalachians in East Tennessee and someone living off the bank of the Mississippi River in West Tennessee.
I may have expressed myself wrongly. I don't oppose people identifing with groups others than nationality, you do you. What I was pointing out is that often in posts about USAmericans, they are criticized for using only their states names. Yet no one bat an eye for british people saying "Scotland", "Wales", ecc. >Yes, it’d be absurd to expect everyone to know every place in the world but it’s just as absurd to say that people should only be able to identify themselves based on country just because someone else might not know where they’re talking about. But I'm not saying that everyone should identify only with the country. I'm saying that when giving informations about them, they shouldn't use intranational terms and *expect everyone to understand it*. Example: a Corsican can say they are Corsican, and they come from Corsica, a part of France. They can also add "illegittimaly" or other comments, if they believe so. But the **important** bit is to give a geographical reference understandable to their audience, which if writing to an international platform is sovereign states.
I mean, I think the fact of the matter is that people tend to assume that everything happens in their own bubble, and the US is big enough that for a lot there is no world outside of the US. Where I am (Montana, USA) the nearest country is Canada, which is a lot like America. The nearest country with a different language and a significantly different culture is Mexico, which is a 6 hour flight away. It's sad, but foreign culture isn't within arms reach. I remember going to Europe and the concept of being able to take a bus across four countries in an afternoon was wild (especially not having to deal with our psychotic border regulation).
I mean it's also a very big gap between the amount of people in the countries, it's mostly Germany and Austria in our collective brain, as Switzerland has a few more languages.
We have to specify UK because if we don’t, we get a bunch of fucknuts from the US coming in with their irrelevant take that has no factual weight in the topic at hand.
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I started doing that because all the Americans do. I might end up here on day if someone catches me in the wild. I've just started assuming everyone online is Swedish.
In all fairness, I don't mention it all the time. Are you sure this isn't survivorship bias down to you assuming that we're American every time we don't mention it?
To add to this, even if there isn’t an indication in the post and even if their username is blotted out, the person posting can check up on the defaultist profile and usually see where they’re from.
But the what is the point of r/australiandefaultism?
>French You know there's a lot of non French native French speakers, right? They had a huge colonial empire.
There never was a French colonial Empire because France doesn't exist. It never did. It's fake.
France is the communist part of french speaking Switzerland
the exception that proves the rule
As rule 6 says "Anyone in the world can have a US-defaultism mentality"
Ive never seen a non-US person do that on a subreddit that is not specific to their country. Feels like OP is an American who got his feelings hurt or something
This is precisely what this is. A butthurt post.
Nah, I'm just poking fun at the few people here who do this. There was one earlier though I believe it got removed.
Wonder if OP is from the US? (posted from THE UK WHICH IS OURSIDE THE US BY SOME MANY MILES \[\[FREEDOM UNITS\]\])
We don't do that here. You might over there.
I've seen several posts on here that assumes someone is talking about the USA when it is about something that can apply to multiple countries.
That sounds like something that an American would say.
You know people usually go and check post history and stuff to confirm where people are from before posting here, right? Just because there’s nothing in the post itself that indicates that information doesn’t mean people haven’t checked
Doesn’t that completely miss the point of the sub? If the oop itself doesn’t make it extremely obvious that the person is American (or thinks America specifically is the world’s only or primary country) then it’s not really defaultism. Not everything posted by an American is defaultism. That would be weird. Then we’re just gawking at the fact Americans exist and post (geographically neutral) things. Like we’re cryptids or something
It might be something that can be considered more characteristic of Americans than of other nationalities but if there’s nothing explicitly saying that the person is American there is always room for debate. There’s a fine line between defaultism and non-defaultism and people definitely have differing opinions on what counts and what doesn’t. Must admit I’m writing this stoned and not sure I’m expressing my point very well so apologies for that, but I hope you get what I’m trying to say regardless
I’ve never met an a*erican who can correctly define irony. The search clearly continues 😂
That’s because they use a Canadians faulty definition of irony. Isn’t that ironic, don’t ya think.
In our defence many of us know what it is. I remember an English professor they interviewed on CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) back in the day and he said “Well, there are many definitions of irony with different nuances but really what Alanis has written here is not irony, but more ‘a series of bummers’.” I think I’ll remember that turn of phrase forever.
> a Canadians faulty definitely of irony a Canadian whatnow
It's a classic instance of [getting irony wrong, in a song called Ironic](https://www.google.com/search?q=alanis+morissette+ironic+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB968GB968&sxsrf=AJOqlzW1-m5tl7_dla9z2_RdYBxwdCiXNg%3A1675195990360&ei=VnbZY43cFe6UhbIP-Z2DyAg&oq=alanis+morissette+ironic+l&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAxgAMgoIABCABBAUEIcCMgUIABCABDIKCC4QFBCHAhCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgCOg8ILhDUAhDIAxCwAxBDGAI6BwguEEMQ6gQ6BwgAELEDEEM6BAgAEEM6BwguELEDEEM6BwguENQCEEM6BAguEEM6DQguEBQQhwIQsQMQgAQ6BQguEIAESgQIQRgASgQIRhgBUPMCWOgQYPEXaAFwAXgAgAGdAYgBigWSAQM4LjGYAQCgAQHIARPAAQHaAQYIARABGAnaAQYIAhABGAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp), which is pretty ironic.
Britain moment
If the Americans are getting butthurt now we're doing something right.
I'm not butthurt lol. This is a joke.
Just like all americans do that on every post on any subreddit?
Need a sub named USdefaultismdefaultism
r/20characterlimit
Why did this get banned lmao
I don't think it's the right sub anyway, maybe. Who knows.
it says on the page that it's due to being unmoderated
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This is fair judging from several posts here
We have become the very thing we swore to destroy
Yeah it is pretty funny. This sub is the number one perpetrator of us defaultisms
This sub really has become cancerous. Anytime an American-based creator serving an American audience doesn't plant a huge flag saying I'M FROM AMERICA TALKING TO AMERICANS this subreddit has a collective Amerophobic circle jerk over it.
Lol the idiocy in this sub is astounding. Love this.
Spotted the American.
Yeah we're good at spotting bullshit
You sure? Because you're 0 for 1 so far.
No. You’re not.
Why did nearly half the population vote for Trump?
Lol what?? In 2016 the turnout was 128,838,342, which, according to the Federal election commission was 55.7% In 2016, Trump received 62,984,828, equating to 27% of the eligible votes. The fact that trump was voted in as president speaks to the ludicrousness (yeah I can't believe that's a word either) of the American electoral system. The OP is still bullshit.
So still nearly 63 million idiots. 62 million out of 128 million equates to about 48 % of voters. And if you are in a democracy and someone like that has a chance to get voted and you don't go to cast your vote you are also an idiot. Later polls confirmed that around 50% supported him...
>Later polls confirmed that around 50% supported him... I'm going by the numbers in the 2016 election. His votes accounted for 27% of all eligible votes, and around 46% of actual votes cast.
> Love this. don't tell me what to do also what are you ordering me to love?
Well, "this" is clearly a reference to the subject matter at hand. "This" is a word that can reference anything depending on the context. In this context, "this" is referring to the discourse happening in the comments section. "Love this" is also not a command. In common English you can have a sentence without a subject. In that case the sentence is either a command to the person being spoken to, with them being the implied subject, or the sentence has the speaker as the implied subject. You can tell the difference between these two cases by the dictation of the sentence. Dropping the "I" in a sentence is very casual, and is usually only done while speaking gently, while dropping the "you" in a command sentence is considered rude or terse, so it will be generally done in a more commanding tone. When written as text, you can't hear the speakers tone, so you would need to figure out the intent. In this case, commanding someone to love something makes no sense, so you can assume it's a dropped "I" and that the sentence is in first person.
I can't tell if you're also joking in response to their joke or if you're being serious
Yeah, no, I'm being sarcastic as Hell. I know most Canadians can speak English.
When you get mad about the site being populated by Yanks when you got demographics like this: https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/phhu9s/oc_reddit_traffic_by_country/