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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You cant help but spout fallacies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Trump has never cared about hiring people who are efficient. He hires them if they pay him. His administration was filled with industry representatives, who were in positions where they decided regulation of their own businesses. Corruption all the way down.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

The World Wide Web is not an American invention. Who invented what is completely irrelevant in this context anyway though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

When non-native English speakers are navigating in a non-national internet setting we use English. I have gathered from the many American comments in this thread, that that fact is apparently incredibly difficult for Americans to gauge. Nevertheless, it is a fact.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Again, the numbers you linked shows that you are more likely to speak to a non-American on reddit than an American. Your entire premise is flawed from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I am saying is that of all Internet users that use English, Americans are by far the largest group

No, they didn't misunderstand. It is you who are massively misunderstanding. You are suffering from the erronous assumption that people who speak English on the internet are native English speakers when that it is not so at all. People speak English on the internet because it is the largest commonly understood language. So people from non-English speaking countries are using it as well. And there are a heck of a lot more non-native English speakers in the world than native English speakers.

So you are most likely at any time on the internet to be speaking to a non-native English speaker, and thus definitely not an American.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Again, you are completely missing the point of the internet and English usage on it. People are using English as a lingua franca. There are a lot more non-native English speakers on the internet than native English speakers.

So no, odds are not that it is an American you are speaking to, just because that person speaks English. You are literally regurgitating the fallacy that OP is about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The thing is we are not talking about visiting countries. We are talking about the virtual World Wide Web.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What on Earth are you on about? "denigrate Americans". They are pointing out facts. That you apparently are so fragile that you consider that denigration is entirely on yourself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Your comment is very typical of that (fallacious) US centrism. People write in English on the internet because that is the universal language. There are far more secondary English speakers on the internet than primary English speakers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"A google home" just seems like the opposite of wholesome to me

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

Please stop using twitter.

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