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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 month ago “President of the Free World” Side note: as a non-American member of the ‘free world’, I’ve always fucking hated that expression.
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoI’m a USian living outside the US. I’m a lot freer than I ever was Stateside.
minus-squarebearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoYeah, me too, I used the phrase ironically. A nation without universal healthcare has no business calling itself free to begin with, not to mention the entire prison industrial complex, abortion bans, and so on
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI got that, but historically, it’s been used anything but ironically by the news media, and it’s always irked me.
Side note: as a non-American member of the ‘free world’, I’ve always fucking hated that expression.
As an American, me too.
I’m a USian living outside the US. I’m a lot freer than I ever was Stateside.
Yeah, me too, I used the phrase ironically. A nation without universal healthcare has no business calling itself free to begin with, not to mention the entire prison industrial complex, abortion bans, and so on
I got that, but historically, it’s been used anything but ironically by the news media, and it’s always irked me.