If you’re just going to find any religious nutso to make your argument, I don’t think you’re really arguing in good faith.

Jerry Falwell was a significant Baptist pastor who had a large congregation. He founded a college and also was a significant conservative activist. You could say he was problematic, but he was a significant religious leader.

So you’re going to have to flag Teletubbies as blasphemous, since Jerry Falwell publicly condemned the show due to Tinky Winky.

The flip side to your argument is what would be decided as blasphemy. A Mormon blasphemy could be different than a Catholic blasphemy but under the same warning.

I can see that happening, people shifting their political leanings when accepting the new economic class they are in.

Yeah, it feels you’re giving others time when they won’t give it back. When you say you do so without causing a flight or conflict, maybe do so. Your time is valuable and also maybe they need to hear what they don’t want to hear.

Is there? Most electrical maps I’ve seen are that the poorer parts of the country are supporting Lula while the richer parts are supporting Bolsonaro.

What time and energy are spending?

Edit: I’m asking for examples because there are several things it can be. Right now, part of it may be that you’re setting yourself on fire to keep others warm, then you’re angry that your response isn’t reciprocal.

Regarding travel, it isn’t typical for US defaultism for Americans traveling abroad. However, not typical doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen in some forms.

Regarding currency, a lot of countries and regions will take American currency. Some smaller Caribbean countries peg their dollars to the American dollar 1:1. Some touristy regions around the world will also take American currency, usually at inflated prices. Or, you may have a tourist who has run out of the local currency and only has American cash on hand. It isn’t typical, but it likely happens and everyone remembers the few idiots who don’t know that France uses Euros.

Regarding language, it can be stressful for some to be in an area where people are speaking in a language you don’t understand, especially if you are used to people only speaking your language. Yelling “Speak English” could be someone having a panic attack or just expressing frustration that they can’t interact with society like they could at home. Sure, there is likely some racism and ignorance wrapped up in that. However, I’m providing an explanation, not an excuse.

Regarding your comment regarding the Internet, US defaultism generally happens as Americans are a plurality of English speaking people on several major platforms and a lot of news in non-English speaking countries is usually written in the local language and discussed in the local language. So, the assumption is generally that the person is American, especially if they are taking a point of view somewhat in line with American politics.

I’ve seen a lot of angry comments from too online leftists on Lemmy telling the person they are talking with that they hope the other person dies in a fire as America falls, with the response being “I’m not American”.

A lot of people understand American politics because it is written in the language in which the Internet was developed and so much is written. Without other context clues, people may not see that someone within the boundaries of American politics may be from another country.

What makes you feel like you’re putting in effort?

I’ve complained about this, but I don’t know if it is Bommers only. I’ve seen a lot of Gen Alpha with shy dicks as well.

You can be nice, but establish boundaries. You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Going for a walk is generally a good thing.

In-N-Out can only place restaurants in certain locations due to internal supply chain limitations. I haven’t confirmed it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if their food was sourced locally because of it.

Go down a hyperfocus rabbit hole.

Ever since the deployment of machine generated results for search engines, there has always been a competition between the search engines and various others using search engine optimization to get to the top of the results. It isn’t worth it for Alphabet or Microsoft to fix their search engines if they can push you to AI, so their non-AI results naturally degrade.

So I’ve been having to remove pictures of people posting anime style upskirt images of people in child expressing bodies with the text effectively “I will not be responding to comments because everyone is mean”. Most of the time, I only find out because other people reported it as CP or CP adjacent.

With my own choices of art that I used to post, I tried pieces which can generally be viewed in public given I’m on an instance where people can expect to view the content anywhere. I don’t care enough to go through the discussions to get buy in to show legitimate art, let alone what looks like AI CP.

Am I drawing a line further than what an art museum would show? Yeah. But an art museum is going to be more enclosed with walls, a greeter, and an expectation that most children won’t enter it unaccompanied to make it a point of discussion in the community. I’m also not willing to go through the effort for others who do not wish to be a part of the community other than posting.

If someone wants to create something more, all the tools to create their own instance are available.

I remember how other wildly successful people have made mistakes and try to remember I can’t do a near zero fault run in life.

Valve’s revenue stream requires defending the app store. I look at the Steam Deck as being the first time it made sense for a large company to invest in consumer Linux, since it defends access to the app store.

Alternate between going full retirement mode by turning the money into $200k a year and planning for a mass collapse by buying farmland tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains.