Web of science is constantly sending me wrong notices of my work being cited. Quite likely using crappy ai

Yeah it seems oddly defensive, like a nerve is being touched and the conversation must be headed off at the pass with a reflexive straw-manning

I think that last bit is the issue, coupled with how the USA treats people (often inhabitants native to the Americas) it considers not-american within its borders and without. If you check out the reposts of the OP Faine reposts, you'll find the derogatories are mostly in Spanish, for a reason

*yeah

Yrha we shouldn't do it though. Rewarding the threats and bullying with damaging subservience makes it more likely that MM and pals will not be gone

jfc no it isn't similar to how children learn

couple of Keller's papers in this vein
proceedings.mlr.press/v202/keller2...
arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08045

Not really, cos if you don't have a house to sell then you just can't afford to live anywhere

Oops. Not deporting, trafficking

Calling yourselves Americans is fine - you are! It's the exclusivity, calling other inhabitants of the Americas not-Americans that is hegemonic (esp when deporting them to Angola or whatever). And that's a big thing right now.

Wtf are Bugsnax?! Is that Monster Munch type junkjoy or like snacks made out of crickets?

Snax, please

Oh wait, read that wrong. Yes, the very point is to annoy and by this provocation question US citizens' notions of what American means

I mean, so what? Do I need to condition my use of terms on what some other internet randos get uppity about?

But yeah, it's intended as a bit of a dig at the national (not personal) level and if people experience it that way then yeah that's the point. So I'm not gonna get the shits about people being annoyed by it

Well there are plenty of knob-ends online. For me, it's not offensive at all, just a bit hegemonic to the extent it's exclusive and that other inhabitants of the Americas are denied being Americans. Especially if they're simultaneously being denigrated and kidnapped and sent to Congo and wotnot

No for sure, that's kinda part of the point. Although shocked and appalled might be un peu too much

I don't think using the term is the same as demanding everyone use it or everyone stop using "American". And ok, historical usage, but historical contingency is legitimately questioned all the time and I think that's ok

Spose this does include an element of deliberately infuriating tbf