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Mastodon is my primary social media, and there’s a lot I dig about it. But if there’s one thing I’d like to change, it’s the way people say THIS IS A CRISIS RIGHT NOW AND IT’S THE MAIN CRISIS AND IF YOU DON’T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW YOU’RE BAD AND WRONG!!!

Know what? It’s *your* crisis. Do what you think is right. Stop judging others for having different priorities, political or otherwise. Quit putting everything in black and white, absolute terms. It’s exhausting, and nobody can live like that.

@adhdeanasl Totally, totally. And a lot of times it's skewed towards what Americans think is a crisis. The rest of the world have other priorities and we just want to be left alone.

@liztai @adhdeanasl

Just to air my related pet peeve: US people think they're the world to the extend they don't even bother to put their location on their profile. And if there's something that can be read as location, it's a place that's so "other" that they don't even think it's an even theoretical alternative.

Just the day before yesterday I made an error by thinking someone was Syrian..

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

@iju TBH, I don't think it's a habit everyone would do, especially if you belong to a less than popular country. I only placed the flag in my profile because people kept talking to me about US-related stuff that I frankly don't get and want to stay away from lol. Even then, some assume I should still have the same values lol.

@adhdeanasl

@liztai @adhdeanasl

Well, you've right to your opinion, ofc.

Personally I feel that almost any conversation that touches either personal life or politics (in the wider sense of the word) has to do with either your upbringing or current place of location.

There's a reason that anecdotically most people in smaller areas tell or imply where they're from, either directly or by listing a rare language, with domain ending, etc.

Meanwhile people from stateside just list hobbies, or profession.

@liztai @adhdeanasl

I'll add that surprisingly many DO list their pronouns*, which generally speaking affect less our way of contextualising the other person's words than the place they live.

The above mentioned conversation with the Syrian-that-wasn't finally went off-rails due to statement about hating anarcho-communists for their being pro-Trump, and then being unwilling to reformat to a wider theoretical or global view.

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* Which is a good thing, don't get me wrong.

@iju @liztai @adhdeanasl A telling example of your point is USAian university email addresses' domain indicator. They're all .edu -- as if the only educational institutions *on the planet* are in the USA.
The default myopia, combined with hegemonic imperialism is exhausting.