@mekkaokereke@rogerparkinson To add to this, you can be "nice" and still tacitly or lazily support white supremacist systems. If it seems normal, why would you think you're doing anything wrong?
@rogerparkinson@mekkaokereke Individually all the Americans I know are genuinely warm, lovely people. But culturally there's an identity that the country refuses to acknowledge and the result is what the rest of the world is seeing every day.
Windows: "Hey I need to update. Restart me" Me: "Ugh. Fine" Windows: "Hey I need to update some more. Restart me" Me: "Jesus! Fine!" Windows: "Ok thanks. Now I need to update some more. Restart me" Me: "JFC! No! Fuck off! I'm busy and can't be closing all my stuff every day! Christ, get your shit in order!" Windows: "Hey you didn't restart me so I closed everything at 2am last night and lost everything you were working on" Me: *deskflip*
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