American is a term synonymous with US citizen. I have done a fair amount of traveling and I’ve never heard another country’s citizen refer to themselves, read another country’s articles, or heard another country’s news refer to anyone other than the USA as “America” or calling its citizens “American”. I’ve heard “the Americas” though when referring to places in North or South America.

Caveat is that I am a US citizen so it’s possible that it’s said but I’ve never heard it used in any other way.

Ah! Thank you for the context.

I think it’s based on where Lemmy.world is hosted and there is a law that they can’t spread violence advocation or something so there was a lot of comments that were removed during the Luigi stuff.

I think it’s about this?

Tell me whyyyyyy!

Actually that might make me a double terrorist.

A double negative is a positive!

So they defined themselves?

I dunno, man. My mind goes to positive reinforcement for doing the right thing. Disney is a maaaaaaaaaassive fucking corporation with a platform that can reach many many people. If we reward them for fixing their mistakes and punish them for going against societal contracts and moral values, then perhaps they will put out content that reinforces the societal contacts and moral values which helps fight authoritarianism.

Money is what they care about, not values, but even if they are spreading the values we want just because of money then they are still spreading the values we want. We need platforms that can at least even pretend supporting our narratives in the sea of right wing propaganda.

Not to my knowledge, but that fucker, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, and Tooth Fairy all support/practice breaking and entering!

I canceled my stuff over this and I don’t even watch him. I let them know it was because they are free speech abolitionists and capitulating to Trump. I’m also a huge Star Wars and Marvel fan, so this was a big deal to me to cancel.

Sorry, but income disparity might now be the second greatest problem in America only being overshot by the willful unchecked support of fascism taking root in everything. Even if we dissolved the income disparity, there’s a real fucking problem with hate and that hate and power will ultimately make income disparity happen again (if solved), or become even worse!

They have very American sounding names.

I would’ve guessed “zippy”, but someone else said the news is saying the letter names.

Nice! Good on you! Don’t worry about not saying why, if everyone is canceling today then they probably know why. Hulu didn’t have a spot to leave a why but Disney did. 🤷‍♂️

Canceled my D+ and Hulu subscriptions and wrote in other:

“Capitulating to Trump’s version of fascist America and knee jerk reaction to Kimmel made me rethink why I should give you my money. I don’t even like or watch Kimmel, but you are allowing free speech to be violated. I don’t support free speech abolitionists.“

Because they are institutions that are trying to provide comprehensive discussion since the world is grey. We don’t have to like it, but that’s probably why they allow it. Plus, yes, they make money.

You’re correct. I’m not sure what “2024 voters” means though. Maybe I didn’t search hard enough. Are they just voters polled back in 2024? Is All voters they polled this year? Is All 2024 and 2025 combined?

A Vox podcast (Today Explained) speculated that that Dems won’t put the gov into shutdown because they are afraid that the GOP would retaliate by eliminating the filibuster, and then strong arming literally everything and anything they want without opposition.

I am, admittedly, not super up on how politics works at this kind of a political level but that’s what was discussed. Another person said they doubted the GOP would do it because they like it as an option if an opposing party has control, but it’s an option. However, Dems don’t want to gamble and want to be sure of the best outcome.

I have no idea, but I want a show with Charlie Kelly and Langston Fleury teaming up to solve bird crimes.

Are you implying that a ton of fascists in charge are not on that list? We can have both options.

GOP projecting again. Sounds like the party has a porn addiction!