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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    Apart from my hobby of posting my-hero 's daily cringe, which I concede is because my old childhood awe and wonder for space exploration and future tech in general has been seized by that apartheid manchild’s cult of personality which has effectively steered the zeitgeist toward his version of the future at all levels of western society, I really don’t delve too much into daily red team vs blue team slapfights and I am glad this place doesn’t either.

    A few people have raged about my my-hero dunk posts, but the dunk/Drej tanks are comms that can be blocked, so by keeping such posts in such places, I’ve already done my part. im-doing-my-part