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  • My intention is to present an argument for the logical incorrectness of using the term “Americans” for citizens of USA.

    And I already agreed with you on that point, but I also showed you that that is NOT how the English language works. So fucking stop beating a dead horse.
    You are being annoying and stupid.
    No you don’t sound aggressive or rude. You sound stubborn and annoying unable to accept facts that are presented to you very clearly.



  • Now you simply have to piss off and stop being stupid. I have shown you 3 sources documenting that you are wrong, and explained how and why.
    And no it has nothing to do with simple logic, because that is not how language is defined. Language is defined by how it is used, and everybody uses it the way I described to you.
    If you persist being stubbornly ignorant, I will just have to block you. I tried to give you a thorough explanation, responding with this bullshit afterwards is simply not worth my time.
    You cannot define languages no matter how stupid or illogical you think it is.






  • In the workplace you hopefully had help from your union. Americans rarely have that luxury.
    Also it’s only in USA that France might be considered communist, because that’s completely moronic extreme right propaganda, since France has a free market economy like the rest of EU.
    At least in EU insurance is under better regulation than in USA, but it still sucks to have to make insurance claims, that the insurance company has every interest in rejecting.


  • No USA has hijacked that. What you are talking about is the Americas plural with an S, which include north, south and central America.

    I absolutely agree with you that it is stupid and arrogant of USA to call itself America. But it is shorthand for United States of America.

    In my own language Danish “Amerika” is indeed the 3 Americas combined, but in English “America” is used interchangeably with USA.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

    The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America,

    https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika

    Amerika er den samlede landmasse indeholdende Nordamerika (inklusive Mellemamerika) og Sydamerika

    Translation: “Amerika” is the combined landmass containing North America (including Central America) and South America.

    It depends on the language, and here we use English. And yes I agree with you it is stupid. But people from USA are called Americans, hence it is sometimes more logical to use America than USA.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American

    American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the “United States” or “America”

    I don’t know what your native language is, but you are probably transferring norms from your own language to English, that in this context makes you simply wrong.





  • China is coming from extreme poverty and a feudal society until not that long ago, and is a different culture. USA is coming mostly from European culture, but is doing worse in this field than any European country, despite being far richer than most European countries.
    China has made a lot of progress the past 50 years, conditions in China are now without comparison better now than they were 50 years ago. In USA conditions are in many ways worse for the average worker than they were 50 years ago.

    honestly don’t know what the “free healthcare in China” stuff came from

    I have no idea what you mean. AFAIK China does not have healthcare for all, or free healthcare. But apart from that IDK how healthcare actually works in China.