In point of fact: a friend I have from Europe expressed amused appreciation when I first used that term with her, because “American” implies that people from the US are the only population that matters in The Americas (as in, North and South America), and that the default/accepted demonym has some implicit ownership/overlordship overtones, and I don’t disagree.

Ok, I’ll bite: realistically, what would you have me do, in addition to going to protests and generally not giving the fascists the rhetorical space to spew their insanity unopposed?

Unitedstatesian here: seriously, tell our regime to fuck off.

Wow you are making a whole shitload of assumptions about my beliefs - not to mention, you clearly do not understand strategic military and geoeconomic policy in the context of modern geopolitics.

Canada is in danger of invasion by a nationalistic US in the next decade or two, if the trajectory our current regime is on continues unabated. Having defense equipment and capabilities that are backed by literally anything other than US tech is a great idea in that context.

Because Russia (and, well, lots of other countries, including China and the US) commonly runs, amongst other things, foreign intelligence and influence operations out of consulates and embassies on a covert basis. Officially closing embassies/consulates tends to make it harder for hostile states that own those properties to execute hostile actions within the host country.

Ew 😐

Lmfao holy shit

As a city person:

It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.

It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.

Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.

Tbh I refuse to patronize dollar general, because they are an absolute cancer of a corporate entity (yes, I know how little that narrows it down, but their business model really is unbelievably caustic, in that it specifically preys upon socioeconomically depressed areas and actively makes them worse).

Congratulations, <megaCorpName>! You have completed the Regulatory Capture research tree, and have unlocked State Capture!

Well, when did your whole life start?

It would definitely subvert my expectations

Tangentially:

George RR Martin says he is three quarters of the way through The Winds of Winter

George RR Martin is asymptotically approaching the completion of the next book in the series, while simultaneously aging in linear time, which presents fairly obvious problems.

So cool that they’ve burnished their international image with that whole comedy festival thing 🙄

So uh… Israelis, just to be clear, this is how you make most of the rest of the world kinda hate you.

I’d even take some sabotage by enterprising Ukrainian agents that caused some sinkings

I mean… sure, but to say Russia is not involved in Belarus is akin to saying a hand is not involved in a sock puppet.

This is… not meaningful, compared to what Russia pulled with all the Boeing and Airbus airframes they just… appropriated when the sanctions sunk their teeth in.

I guess you’ve been missing the news. They’ve been going ham on that all summer and autumn.