• Almacca@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    “President of the Free World”

    Side note: as a non-American member of the ‘free world’, I’ve always fucking hated that expression.

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      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

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        I got that, but historically, it’s been used anything but ironically by the news media, and it’s always irked me.

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      I’m a USian living outside the US. I’m a lot freer than I ever was Stateside.