I Should Be Able to Mute America
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As the US elections draw near, I must once again bitch about being subjected to US cultural hegemony.

It’s so fucking exhausting folks. Please, God, somebody invent the “Mute America” button. I would genuinely get one of those brain chips implanted in my head if it would allow me to smoothly silence any content about US politics.

As a weakling who only speaks two languages, I am cursed to either suffer my home country’s discourse (which, trust me, is just as brainrotten as the US’s if not more), or to stay in the anglophone media space where America reigns supreme. Nowhere is safe. There is no dark corner where I can hide from Trump’s dementia-ridden quotes, or Gamers4Harris, or whichever way Musk is embarrassing himself this time, or the general attitude of people regularly forgetting that the world - and more specifically their online audience - does not all live in the US.

The world should institute a reverse Great Firewall to contain American discourse within the physical boundaries of the 50 states, like the dangerous infohazard that it is.

Please. I beg for mercy. We have suffered enough.

  • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    28 days ago

    inshallah first thing on the agenda once the US stops being a superpower is to wall it off, turn it into a giant biodome or outdoor museum. they will not be able to affect the world again, their brainworms opinions don’t need to be heard by citizens of the earth, but we can still study them in their natural habitat and visit them to see curious things like people driving “trucks” to the “store” to by a “gallon” of malk

    • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      Agreed, we need to wall it off. And then move the wall inwards, a sort of “reverse Manifest Destiny” (literally undoing the Manifest Destiny mentality) with intensive deradicalization/de-Nazification re-education/etc before people get out. Those who still wish to dwell in their colonial mindset can go make a commune in some fenced off uninhabited region, or in a bunch of floaties in the Pacific garbage patch maybe. And we need to do that where I live (another Anglo settler country) please timmy-pray