#us defaultism

[mopeing]

More and more I see jokes online at the expense of British people, and it really rubs me the wrong way.

It seems to me, like a great many other behaviours people exhibit online, they want to be mean and desperately want to find socially acceptable targets.

The UK is a former empire and is responsible for a lot of historic repression of cultures so it's seen as "punching up" and acceptable to mock.

But the thing is... the things people mock about British culture are categorically not things associated with the ruling class (i.e. the people who performed and benefitted from colonialism the most).

It's always working class accents ("bri'ish"), bland foodstuffs that only became a staple because of food scarcity (beans on toast), or just general cultural differences (word usages in British English for example).

None of these are sticking it to the man. None of it is anti-imperial or anti-colonial. It's just mean-spirited.

For the accents thing, it's classist. They never make fun of RP accents, it's always cockney or something similar. It just seems so discordant that "the British are responsible for inequality in the world" as their justification for their mockery but their mockery targets the portion of British people least involved with that and are more likely to be disadvantaged.

As for the mocking cultural differences, that's even more ironic because in doing so they're demonstrating the same contemptuous attitude towards other cultures that imperialists did. I always like to think of how in Japanese the word "chigau" means both "different" and "wrong". People who belong to a dominant culture (in this instance I am assuming the people doing this are Americans) see differences as laughable, as if the way they themselves do things are the correct way and everything else is a deviation from that.

When Xenoblade is dubbed with mostly British voice actors it's notable and many jokes are made about it. But where are the jokes about Persona being dubbed with American accents? It is just as noticeable to British people when American English is used in translations as it is when it happens the other way around. But there's no fuss made about that because it's considered the default way of things.

[vogelmeister]

“release date thanksgiving 2023” “coming to you, fall 2022” can we normalise saying the months?

[rowanyourlocalarsonist]

This law doesn't apply to me, because I live in Germany

never stop collecting little things that make you happy! rocks! buttons! feathers! flowers! sticks! bugs! bones! never stop!

[ct-hardcase]

bro screw g**gle's predictive search when I write 'antonym' I fucking mean 'antonym' and am not secretly searching for the word synonym, nor do I want to be provided synonyms. if I wanted synonyms I'd look for them. jfc.

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

According to this article, California is likely to have its lowest primary turnout in the state’s history — 29%—"in part because more than 4 in 10 voters are not enthusiastic about voting for president or Congress, according to a Public Policy Institute of California survey." Further: "So far, Republican voters have turned in 32% of the ballots, according to Political Data, Mitchell’s analytics firm that monitors turnout across the state. . . .While there are roughly equal numbers of voters older than 65 and younger than 35 in California, so far 57% of the ballots turned in have been from seniors and only 2% from younger voters." (emphasis added) It's not just California.

You don't have to be "enthusiastic" about the candidate you vote for, but you must vote against the candidate you oppose.

Not voting is not a statement of dissatisfaction with the system; it says you are wiling to accept whatever other people decide, even if it's bad for you.

VOTE. Do not let the other side win because you couldn't be bothered to fill out a ballot.

[queermarzipan]

exploding things with my mind like matilda. as an irish person who speaks english only BARELY removed from british english, and who uses the euro (WHICH THE UK DOES NOT, BY THE WAY,,),

you are not funny for forcing us culture on britain. britain sucks. i agree. the us sucks more in this case

Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning

[kirby-the-gorb]

[roe-oo]

ethogirl?

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[right to left]

finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[rowanyourlocalarsonist]

This is an interesting post, but it's also full of unmarked US defaultism. The problem of accidentaly being conservative surely exists in other countries, but y'all...

Stuff like "Reagan Era kidnapping panics", "The non-existing influence of Fox News" or "Acting like a republican despite not voting the party" won't explain similar phenomenons in Germany, because the influence of this man isn't that big here as you think, I'd honestly be more worried about the influence of Die Bild and no one is voting Die Republikaner anyways.

If you want to explain something from an US perspective, you should say it from the start!

here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

[tshortik]

THE DARK URGE

[time-woods]

little part 2 to the previous one

[valeriapryanikova]

eye hands

[suspicious-of-simple-answers]

As an Italian (technically half Italian but still an Italian citizen): Americans are so weird!

Wtf even is that first one? That's... a pizza flavored pie? Who even came up with that? Is there something under the cheese or is it really just a bread bowl full of cheese and tomato? How do you eat it? Do you need a spoon?

Also the second one is so burnt?? Like that is pizza al trancio and it's a great snack on the go but c'mon don't burn it!

The third one looks like your basic cheap takeaway pizza you'd get from the place next door when you can't be bothered to go to the better pizzeria that's like 500m further away. It's not that great, probably made with an electric oven, possibly even with grated "mozzarella" from a bag, but it's fairly okay so you eat it.

Anyway I know nothing about American pizza culture but I'd say you're all fighting for no reason: these aren't just otherwise equal pizzas that you subjectively choose a favorite from, these are clearly pizzas that are meant for different occasions! New York style is meant to be takeaway: you take it home, share it with friends and have a great time. Detroit style is for when you only have 20 minutes to buy and eat lunch so you get a piece of that and eat it in a park. And Chicago style is what you serve at a dinner party to truly find out who is the best at deciphering what utensils they're meant to use and how they are supposed to operate them in order to eat whatever that is.

Alright fuckers which one

Chicago

Detroit

New York

Reblog to assess who is a friend and who is an enemy

There is no secret fourth. If you like all of them, pick one. If you like none of them, pick one. If you dont know what pizza is look at the pictures. No none of the above. Fight. Kill

[mi-spark]

what’s up, party girl!!! 🪩🌈✨

[lieu-rey]

thinking about javier after the gang fell apart...

uhhh some thoughts below⬇️

what javier did between the events of rdr2 and rdr1 has always been in my mind. I just think he was an absolute mess. he wasn't coping with the fact that he not only lost the family he tried so desperately to hold onto, he also realized that he fucked up horrendously, and there's no going back to fix it and the guilt and regret eats at him like nothing else.

he really just. stops taking care of himself, I don't think he cuts his hair short yet but he lets it grow and doesn't care for it like he used to. he doesn't sleep, he never bathes, he drinks and cries when he's alone, he just wanders between cantinas in nuevo paraiso, hoping he stays under the radar of the government.

i like to think something happens that makes him snap out of it, whatever it might be. when he does, his hair is so matted he just ends up cutting it all off with his knife

like those 12 years are something I want to elaborate on bc it's still wild to me that rdr2 javier and rdr1 javier are the same person