ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 1 个月前A Lot of Americans Are Googling 'What Is Oligarchy?' After Biden's Farewell Speechgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1199cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.onlinenews@lemmy.world
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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 个月前In America, it’s a descriptor that is applied to other countries … but not their own.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-21 个月前Didn’t the president just use that descriptor to refer to America? It’s all over american political discourse, too. What you are on about.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 个月前Thats a pretty recent development, and as such is why people had to look it up, which was the point of the comment.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 个月前But they don’t need to look it up when describing other countries… I see…
In America, it’s a descriptor that is applied to other countries … but not their own.
Didn’t the president just use that descriptor to refer to America? It’s all over american political discourse, too. What you are on about.
Thats a pretty recent development, and as such is why people had to look it up, which was the point of the comment.
But they don’t need to look it up when describing other countries… I see…
There are other countries?