#i'm a real usamerican

[janhetjoch]

Me pretending to be an American: Oh yeehaw I'll never forger 9/11 when the flew that plane into the twin towers. Pew pew hamburger

[witheredgardenparty]

I will never forgive a single one of you

[the-lark-ascending69]

maya's first crush was on her girl best friend so i'm sure she has experience with being a gay teenager and coming out

Wait maya is queer?? 😭😭 i thought she was straight aaaa

[grkuvus]

when a usamerican says that people should "simply immigrate" out of countries like russia or israel there is so much i want to say (oh, SIMPLY leave. SIMPLY get citizenship elsewhere. the morally correct response to your dictator committing human rights abuses is to SIMPLY have the means to uproot your life and be accepted by another country) but at the end of the day the only thing i can say is okay. you first

[lord-squiggletits]

Between TF and my other fandoms like BG3 and TES, I keep finding myself making OCs that have some element of "battle hardened hero who is actually good and righteous, but so traumatized by the toll of war that even after the war ends they feel empty/wrecked and can't enjoy the fruits of victory" and I'm not sure if it's bc I gravitate to a certain type of media where such OCs fit in best, or bc I have a specific character archetype I like and gravitate towards media that contains those things.

[bitseventimes]

I'm routinely jump scared by the American to anything else ratio on this website

[girlincubus]

sometimes people's remarks about usamerican entitlement and privilege give off the vibe of the age-old "well you might be poor but there are starving children in africa!" type of guilt trip. like. is someone actually being obnoxious and lacking perspective and claiming their problems are the worst in the whole world, or are you simply moving the goalpost because you don't want to acknowledge that various forms of systemic oppression and poverty are so pervasive in the world that even people in the richest and most privileged countries suffer.

[ghostclangen]

a few voice claims (for when this is adapted into a film /s):

charredtail - jt woodruff; marshlily - naomi watts; fireflash - Michael Cera or something??; quailwhisper - caitlin fitzgerald; crageagle - brendon urie (unfortunate but true)

[knxfesck]

For the Inbox ask meme: what is your comic about? I've seen you mention in posts a couple times, and I was thinking about it..

It's a cyberpunk comic about a bunch of 20 somethings being stupid about eachother lmao. They all live in this protected mega city in new mexico because in their timeline western europe got hit by an asteroid in 1979 so the world is Very different and theres a megacorporation that partners with different governments to make cities that are safe from outside harm. The story is mostly just about their lives and fun cyberpunk stuff but the corruption in the government keeps somehow getting involved in their interpersonal issues 💀

[stonebutchery]

i'm glad the unauthorized saw musical parody did a livestream show tonight because, watching it right now, i know that if i had waited to see it vip style in chicago this summer i would either have allowed my fight or flight to kick in and left mid-show or i would've dropped dead in the theater due to the demon core levels of cringe radiating off of the stage

[cosmicheromp3]

usamericans are a living meme it's like they WANT to be made fun of for burger

[silvermoxon]

@st4r-f3ll-qu33rs

whenever someone calls USAmerican English the 'movie accent' I remember how somewhere last year I was on a train when suddenly the silence was broken by an american voice behind me somewhere and I immediately thought "Oh no, someones playing their tiktoks out loud again" and automatically turned around to put a face to my annoyance like you do when someones driving bad, and turns out a few rows down were just some actual in the flesh USAmericans having a nice conversation amongst themselves. I am sorry Americans I'm glad they let you out of the phone

[konakoro]

I know it's not primarily animated, in fact my biggest complaint is that I wish there was MORE stop motion animation then what we got, but I still feel a subtle joy seeing a recent release be categorized as Animation/Horror, and I still hold out a hopeless hope that we will see both more animation hybrid and animation horror in the future

[glassfullofsass]

It's election season in the US so...

USAmericans are you:

Eligible to vote?

Are you registered to vote?

Is your registration current? (that is, have you moved since you last voted and did you update your voter registration)

Do you know where your polling place is and deadlines for early and absentee voting? (Your polling place may have changed due to redistricting or space availability! Early voting locations are often not the same as election day polling locations!)

Do you know what's on your ballot?

If you can't answer all of these questions, there are tons of good (read: accurate and truthful) resources for you!

Try iwillvote.org or ballotopedia for registration and ballot information respectively.

Usually your local board of elections/department of elections will have a good website too. Look up '(your county/state) board of elections' and use the official government website to look up your polling location/times and even sample ballots.

[hussyknee]

Can USAmericans please stop believing they aren't a Global North country profiting from colonial exploitation of half the world? You're worse off compared to OTHER GLOBAL NORTH COUNTRIES. You cannot fathom what the poverty line looks like in Africa and Asia, how widespread it is, or our sheer lack of access to basic goods and services* through the colonial capitalism that YOU perpetuate. The vast majority of you have more privileges, security and democratic power than even our upper classes can dream of. Your alt right would need to work for decades for most of you to feel a fraction of the repression, exploitation and violence inflicted on us for generations by your political establishments that you refuse to challenge. And the difference will still be that you got to be the architect of your own misery.

USAmerican exceptionalism is also believing that you are the most oppressed uwu babies in the whole world and as much a victim of the gummint you keep electing as the people it massacres and starves abroad. Because your government is the most super special evil and exceptionally fascist in all the world, the absolute worst place to live, and nobody can possibly understand how hard it is—JESUS GET A GRIP.

*I think it's about on par with the poorest in colonized territories and reservations, communities of undocumented immigrants, and extremely rural communities within the First World.

Those "statistics" accounts where all the maps look like this

[teaboot]

How do Canadian schools teach about indigenous Canadian history and culture? -a curious USAmerican

In my experience we learned about colonization at the same time as we learned about the formation of Canada. At first it was "European settlers came and pushed out the indigenous population", then in the higher grades we learned more about the how and the why.

For example, how carts full of men with rifles would ride around shooting Buffalo, then leaving the meat on the ground to rot, because "a dead Buffalo is a dead indian", which was so fanatical it almost wiped out wild Buffalo entirely

Also how Canadian settlers were lured in with beautiful hand-painted advertisements for cheap, beautiful, fertile land that was unpopulated and perfect, if only you'd sail over with your entire family and a pocket full of seeds- only to be met with scared, confused, and angry lawful inhabitants already run out of ten other places, and frigid winters, and rocky, forested, undeveloped dirt.

also, smallpox blankets, where "gifts" of blankets infected with smallpox were intentionally given out

And treaty violations- Either ignoring written agreements entirely, or buying them out at insanely low prices and lying about the value, or trading for farming equipment that they couldn't use because they weren't farmers.

Then in the first world war, where they told indigenous peoples here that they'd be granted Canadian citizenship if they enlisted

To Residential schools, which was straight up stealing kids for slavery, indoctrination, and medical experiments

But we also covered the building of the Canadian Railway in which Chinese immigrants were lowered into ravines with dynamite to blow out paths through the mountain for pennies on the dollar

And the Alberta Sterilization Act, where it was lawful and routine procedure to sterilize women of colour and neurodivergent people without their awareness or consent after giving birth or undergoing unrelated surgeries

But I'm rambling.

We kind of learned Aboriginal history at the same time as everything else? Like. This is when Canada was made, and this is how it was done. Now we'll read a book about someone who lived through it, and we'll write a book report. And now a documentary, and now a paper about the documentary. Onto the next unit.

And starting I think in grade 10 our English track was split between English and Aboriginals English, where you could choose to do the standard curriculum or do the same basic knowledge stuff with a focus on Aboriginal perspectives and literature. (I did that one, we read Three Day's Road and Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, and a few other titles I don't remember.)

There was also a lunch room for the Aboriginal Culture Studies where Aboriginal kids could hang out at lunch time if they wanted, full of art and projects and stuff. They'd play music or videos sometimes, that was cool

And one elective I took (not mandatory cirriculum) was a Kwakiutl course for basic Kwakwakaʼwakw language. Greetings, counting to a hundred, learning the modified alphabet, animals, etc. Still comes in handy sometimes at large gatherings cause they usually start with a land recognition thanking whoever's land we're on, with a few thanks and welcomes in their language.

And like- when I was in the US it was so weird, cause here we have Totem poles and longhouses and murals all over and yall... don't? Like there is a very distinct lack of Aboriginal art in your public spaces, at least in the areas I've been

My ex-stepfather, who was American, brought his son out once, and he was so excited to "see real indians" and was legitimately shocked to learn that there weren't many teepees to be found on the northwest coast, and was even *more* shocked when we told him that you have Aboriginal people back home too, bud. Your Aboriginal people are also named "Mike" snd "Vicky" and work as assistant manager at best buy.

If you'd ask me, I'd say that the primary difference is that USAmerica (from what I've seen, and ALSO in entirely too much of Canada) treats our European and Aboriginal conflicts as history, something that's tragic but over, like the extinction of the mammoths, instead of like. An ongoing thing involving people who are alive and numerous and right fucking here

But at the end of the day, I'm white, and there are plenty of actual Aboriginal people who are speaking out and saying much more meaningful things than I can

So I'm just gonna pass on a quote from my Stepmum, who's Cree, that's stuck with me since she said it:

"You see how they treat Mexicans in America? That's how they treat us here. Indians are the Mexicans of Canada."