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  • If you zoom out a little and look at the phrasing more than the ant problem, it is classic us defaultism. You can read it all the time here. Maybe you haven’t noticed it, if you’re from the US yourself.

    But sentences like “don’t replace your grass lawn with cloverleaf, it’s invasive” can be expected like clockwork.
    The european honey bee is also quite often given this title.

    Not talking globally

    Everyone is constantly talking globally, except US Americans. If I mention something local to me, I always preface that. As do all other participants of the internet. Except for … you know










  • wieson@feddit.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's a Tankie?
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    This term goes back to the 1968 Prague spring.

    It was an uprising, an attempt by the Czechoslovak communist party at reformation towards more democracy and freedom of the press. Then troops from other members of the Warsaw pact marched in and subdued it.

    From then on, communists who supported more democracy and freedom called the pro-quelling communists “tankies” as they marched in with tanks.