I think it’s the “3rd term” bit specifically that is anti-USian, directly going against the two term limit written in the… constitution (?)

Still use my 5MX a couple of times a year… one of the most amazing pieces of technology I’ve ever owned.

You’re not wrong…

Coolio.

So you can understand up or down but struggle with left and right?

I was trying to be analogous to help you understand… either you don’t want to understand or you’re not willing to understand or… there’s something else going on here.

-7 and -9 are both numbers… but none of them are at zero or above. They are both negative, just by varying degrees.

Are you referring to yourself as “drag” or is that a typo?

Yeah - but when future generations (if there are any) appraise this time frame at least these folk will be seen as being outside and opposed to the oligarch-fascist take over.

But on the WORLD wide web nobody should default to one country’s erroneous understanding of a word.

“I swear, this site is full of people who have no fucking clue how US politics works in the real world.”

My take away is that non-USians seem to understand politics better; generally. I know that’s a gross generalisation but the amount of US people who think “team blue” is both liberal and left wing is just sad…

Well, right is a term relative to centre which is relative to left.

Political literacy classes are available online… the idea of anybody thinking Lemmy is right wing (whether it’s code or the majority of its user base) is hilarious and a bit sad at the same time.

I’m sure for some (sad and backwards) people it is a racially motivated position - but for many others I think it has more to do with cultural and geographical proximity.

But then our elected representatives go and fuck up the Middle East… I don’t know.

As an aside, do you know my favourite rugby chant? I’ve heard it at Wales v England rugby games:

“I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose.”

I have a Russian friend who lives in (south) Wales and when he first arrived (10-15 years ago) he couldn’t understand non-white people being Welsh. Years later he realised that a green person born in Newport is already more Welsh than he’ll ever be.

The UK is a very contradictory bastard union that has - so far - somehow managed to stay in one piece.

“Basically, you’re white so yes you can count on us!“

Russia?

He believes in a god, but unfortunately he thinks he is it.

Perhaps, in that moment, he was more preoccupied with the threat to (US) democracy than the threat to his own self?

In answer to your last question it is an unfortunate, but incontrovertible, truth that the only single qualification for becoming an adult is staying alive long enough. That’s it.

I’ve been adulting for almost three decades. No fucker has ever made me sit an exam. It’s crazy. I wouldn’t trust me to adult, but here I am…

“… assumed to be… looks like… could be construed as… according to a source…”are all weasel words and phrases to avoid litigation, to give a little leeway if it got to court.

Reporting - with a nod and a wink; and a little protection.

My favourite euphemism for “drunk/drugged and aggressive” celebrities in newspaper stories is “tired and emotional”.

Sometimes it’s best to say something without actually saying it if you want to stay in business. Granted, it’s not ideal.

Hello again,

I’ve just been talking to my friend who is an editor of a US paper and she says (and I don’t doubt) that “lede” is the only correct spelling of the word in the US - but the rest of the English speaking world has the choice of spelling both ways with no hard and fast rule.

Guess we were both right - and both wrong - at the same time.

Angry? Not sure where you get that from but it ain’t no thing…

To finish quoting the op: “Someone at the Board on Geographic Names bent over faster than a dippy bird.”

I see that as a real concern that a previously well respected institution just blindly accepted a change that runs contrary to accepted local, national and international norms - thus surrendering any impartiality and no longer reporting the facts as they are on the ground.

Presumably you read this part differently to me.

I’m not gonna lose any sleep over that…