I must say I had a pleasant conversation on workers’ rights in the US recently on c/technology (lemmy.world). By pleasant I mean "not being insulted because I live in France and workers do have rights so I’m a red commie" pleasant.

[–] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For the majority of Americans, as long as you are a pleasant person, you will have pleasant conversations, even if it’s about a disagreement.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A. This leads to politeness fetishists and tone policing. If someone says something offensive like "we should remove LGBT+ books from schools," I'd rather shoot myself than speak nicely to that person.

B. This has not been my experience with my fellow Americans at all. I even saw a mod from lemmy.world post mod-flaired horseshit in their politics community about how "The US is not a racist country." Fuck that.

[–] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

🤷‍♂️ then you’re talking to different people than me idk what to tell ya

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Your instance is literally swarming with liberal transplants from reddit, so now you're just being disingenuous.

I live in the midwest, and I'm surrounded by polite fascists. Fuck politeness, and fuck this racist nation.

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[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi from the autistic guy that is physically unable to understand the rules of „politeness“ and burns out while pathetically trying to mimic them just to look like a creep anyway.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

hello!

[–] DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry friend that sounds stressful :(

I’ll give you a politeness pass and if anyone complains tell em to direct all complaints to DillonBrooksEnjoyer

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks friend! I liked your other comment as well btw.

[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

How can we have a pleasant conversation about the murders the American soldiers are committing in the Middle East? How does one be pleasant about murder?

[–] chattan00000ga@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's weird considering America's favourite pass time is to bitch about how shitty our government is

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah, I'm confused by this. Our government is a fucking mess right now!

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