Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!
[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit
Submitted 2 years ago by Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Hey well seems that most of EU is working on it sadly
MBM@lemmings.world 2 years ago
Between Meloni, Órban, PiS, the True Finns, etc. I think there are plenty of dumpster fires
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
the True Finns
I didn’t know the Samis were in charge of finland now
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Let’s open nomination for “Florida Man”, EU
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There’s an active war in Europe. Mediterranean countries are struggling with illegal immigrants and straight up sinking their boats. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Is there like a framerate shortage going around right now?
Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Yeah this is bring-your-own-frame day, you didn’t get the memo ?
3laws@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fuck yes, 240hz gang UNITE!
Odo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Even with the low framerate it’s still highly inefficient and comes to 23MB. This is why you don’t use gif for video.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A lot of frame rate is currently being shipped to Ukraine
GitProphet@lemmy.sdfeu.org 2 years ago
Like anyone’s g9nna give out free frame - HA, not in this economy!
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 2 years ago
I love how most of the Lemmy instances are hosted on European servers, yet Europeans still don't have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
US politics does not belong in World News, yet the upvote counts say otherwise. Europeans need to step up the game and encourage more other Europeans to join Kbin/Lemmy. This will never be fixed without the numbers.
hibsen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Google tells me there’s like 332 million people in the US and like 750 million in Europe. I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
Are there posts Europeans make that I’m just not seeing (beyond complaints like this one), or is there something else that keeps them from posting and upvoting the content they apparently want to see in places like world news?
Damage@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Europeans tend to prefer discussing local matters in their own language
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 years ago
Different states are not like literally different countries.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Europeans still don’t have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
English is the issue. There are only about 80M people who speak English as a first language in Europe, out of 0.8 billion or so. Yeah, plenty of people who are relatively fluent in English participate in English social media, but many also spend a lot of time in social media in their own language, something English-speakers never see.
The Fediverse has a pretty big German-speaking population, but not as much French, Italian, Spanish, etc. I don’t know where they are – probably Facebook / Instagram.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Google News is the worst. If you use it to get a quick snapshot of what’s going on in the world you won’t find anything outside America. You have to change your region to Germany or Britain to get actual results.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
I can only inagine how sick of hearing his name europeans are, I’ve been sick of it since 2015 and I’m American. Honestly at this point I just want to go one whole day without hearing his fucking name. I can’t think of one other person that applies to in politics, celebrities, anything.
wieli99@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Honestly I’m more sick of hearing of Musk by now. At least with Trump there’s a sadistic part of me that keeps wondering how low reps can go, but with Musk, I’m just sick of him. I don’t care about his little tantrums at all and every little shit gets hundreds of upvotes.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Un the same timeframe, we had Brexit which was our own local annoying piece of never ending shitshow
ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
See this is my biggest gripe on people complaining about Trump.
During brexit my feed was full of Boris memes and news. It was really fucking weird watching two different countries get fucked by a fat old man with fake blonde hair
MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Chriskmee@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I could have sworn the original had better than 240p quality…
MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Oh it totally can be, this is the result of a 5 seconds search, haha.
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GreenMario@lemm.ee 2 years ago
America is part of the world.
Checkmate, earthists.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 years ago
They sure as hell don’t act like it though
DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Not a shitpost, it’s a FACT. Lol
mayo@lemmy.today 2 years ago
!notuspolitics@lemmy.word
(I don’t know which of these you’re supposed to share, but it’s a good community).
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Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Thanks!
AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 2 years ago
Facts
Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I’ve been trying to upload it for 1 hour, sorry for the peoples whi saw it 3 times already 😬
drem@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nice gif
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
This is so accurate you could use it as a scope to shoot a fly from a rat ass all the way from the next town.
Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Th…thanks ?
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Welcome buddy.
WrittenWeird@lemmy.world 2 years ago
American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.
American national news is just one outrage after another.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.
And virtually never international, unless there’s a strong US angle.
Soundhole@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Gif is too small. Needs at least another 100 megs of weight
ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
ITT Europeans once again acting like American politics don’t affect them in any way.
Anyone else think it’s funny that Britain got Boris around the same time America got trump?
zaphod@feddit.de 2 years ago
It’s not like news is just politics. Today a helicopter (yeah yeah, it was an Osprey, not a regular helicopter, whatever) with a bunch of US soldiers crashed in Australia and I can read about it in German and French news, this most certainly doesn’t affect me at all.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Just because we have a huge cultural effect doesn’t mean europeans want to be drowned out by our issues, some relatable and some unique.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 years ago
The reason you see a right shift in many countries is because more people are feeling left behind. Also, people build conservative echo chambers online that reinforce certain arguments regardless of your nationality. So it is no surprise that right wing rhetoric is on the rise in many places.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
How does more people feeling left behind lead to conservatism though? This is a genuine question.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 2 years ago
OC for the one of the most oft repeated memes is like kissing your sister
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…that’s right, it goes in the square hole.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Gods, this is so accurate. A part of me wish we could just isolate the U.S. for a bit, because I’d be curious to see how that’d affect the discourse in the rest of the world. The rise of the far right and Trump legitimately being voted in as president legitimised the far-right movements in my country as well. Last election people were literally pushing for the stop-and-frisk BS to become a thing here.
I hate that I know what stop-and-frisk even is.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We need a new internet, without shootings and two party politics!
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
But with blackjack and hookers!
Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Yup, they’re bringing the whole world down with them
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 years ago
You’re just jealous it’s not Europe’s job anymore.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Like the rest of the worlds shit is any better. Right wing facists are on the rise everywhere. Ours are just fucking stupider.
Italy facists, brexit, climate, etc fucking whole world is a dumpster.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 2 years ago
He wasn’t legitimately voted in, though.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
In 2016? I would’ve loved to see Hillary be President but that’s not what we got.
NecessaryWeevil@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Trump was important for the rest of the world when he was… you know… the president of the US… now it’s just a little mediocre guy and I understand that all the little advances in bringing him to justice are pretty important to you guys, but I couldn’t care less.
If he ever gets elected again for some reason, then we will see the potential impact, but for now he is pretty irrelevant im afraid.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The USA has wanted to be isolationist for centuries but just like the Godfather film they keep getting sucked back into international geopolitics.
20% of Americans wanted to make a peace deal with Hitler. This is how little they care about what’s happening outside America.
nuxetcrux@lemmy.world 2 years ago
By the gods, were it to be so!
I would too so enjoy if, as if from some casement unseen, a pair of disembodied, godly hands were to reach down shoo away those br-r-rown masses from Albion and her sisters, to keep them pure!
It is a crime against Balthūre that they invented fascism in 2016!
In the meantime, I will be feasting for this day!
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If that happened, the rest of the world would still find a way to talk about the US the whole time.