but there are tags that tag us politics as 'usian politics' and I'm like. Usian?????

I just saw a couple in passing and I just figure probly they are not from the US and don't know how it would be written but gosh it made me do a double take

usian...

i wonder if it's US-asian politics

(V)( ò,,,,ó)(V) -!!semi related another post going around with good shit the current admin has done and pointing out that media is purposely only talking about the 'BIDEN IS TOO OLD' stuff as a tactic lol

karlsefni: ooooh maybe thats it

wait. google shows me it's just US politics.

USian.

oh yeah I've seen that

I've never seen it before. wack.

USian...

It's an alternative to American that differentiates it from the rest of the Americas and i respect that but also no one says it just say uspol

USian isn't just Tumblr, it was a thing in the early 2000s that people did as a response to the earth shattering realization that not only does calling US residents "Americans" kinda erase indigenous Americans but also ignores that there's fully two fucking continents full of other countries labeled "America"

It communicates the same info

But yeah it's been around for a while just never in very popular usage in English speaking places anyway

but obviously as a thing intended to convey more precise and relevant information that was less US centric and sounded less catchy it was doomed not to catch on

ofdiomedes: rivalcharacter: H U H

Yeah just looking at it it doesn't feel like, Right written if that makes sense

ohhhh that makes sense

so am unsurprised it didn't really catch on

but an attempt at a better catch all term makes sense

the more you know!!

yeah the thing it was intended to do was very logical and well founded but it was never ever actually going to happen

among other things it just sounds dweebier and usians are well known to not tolerate sounding subtly dweeby

How do you even pronounce it aloud

dklfjadkf not wrong

you-shin or uh-shin?

Yea it simply does not sound right

I say Yew Ess Ee Anz when I say it aloud which has not been a thing I've really done much,

ldkfjaa yea that is not instinctive in the least

yeah in my head it's US-ians

it's one of those inclusivity ideas that's like "everything about this is right and when I see people doing it I have no problem joining in to signal that I'm down with the ideas behind it, but I do think we all recognize that this is the kind of move that gets our movement shoved into lockers a little bit"

fuck. accurate

that's said without judgment, just some moves are like putting steak out at the doggy daycare and that's just the facts of the matter

to be fair when i say 'americans' to refer to people who live in the USA. i do pronounce it, exclusively, aMURRRRIC'Ns

which i feel like is sufficient to distinguish from American in general

See that's a perfectly serviceable way to distinguish it,

the murrr is important thats true

We all understand that one,

expressing mild contempt in this way is deserved and right to do

you gotta growl it like you're trying to fuck a ford truck

yeah an f150 specifically

yeah

a merkins...

Call us staters or something. It sounds like taters and I think that’s funny.

Like, it doesn’t have to end in “an” so you’re really limiting the options that way.

nah ive seen usian i think it’s like weird and jokey version of american

as someone who does in fact write/say it as "USian", what ofdiomedes said, lol

I have learned new things gosh

it's absolutely shocking that more people in the US didn't adopt the term that's less obliviously US-centric to the point of being extremely misleading and inaccurate to anyone looking at a map with "North America," "South America," and "United States" on it

everyone is really surprised

but yeah I personally prefer the term to Americans mechanically because it's more precise and well thought out. it DOES sound stupid and make less dialed in people you talk to irl either not know what you're talking about or mock you though so that's a downside

Yea had I not seen it in the context of other uspol tags I would have not known what it meant

but now I do!!

sometimes to be more neutral i do say 'US Americans'

I usually say "people who live in the US" or "US residents" out loud to get around the issue of now being aware that "Americans" is kind of stupid but wanting to be clear in conversation, but it's clunky, alas

I don't generally have to specifiy outloud since most company is in the same boat, but it IS good to keep in mind for online circles 8|a

tho i just use uspol as my gen tag and that also works

I like Staters lol. we should adopt that

yeah what other folks said re: more specificity and inclusion

while also looking and sounding a bit silly

nodnod

in my head it sounds like someone is trying to say russian but got confused

i also see it a lot (though less nowadays) and have used it in the past

and from people who do not live in the US/are US citizens it is absolutely both for inclusion and contempt

you have no idea how many times i've seen people argue about whether calling the country "america" is right or not, and this will shock you

but americans will always double down on WE ARE AMERICANS BECAUSE OUR COUNTRY IS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the rest of latam will just:

and so bc americans hate being called USians, we'll only do it more

personally as an american I think ppl should do things that will piss off americans more lmao

oh that's a really good side benefit of the name being a little silly I hadn't considered

yeah absolutely piss off Americans more

like hell these days being american doesn’t even feel like something to be proud of nfjakkfkg

rainpuddles: lmao i can absolutely see that. why so many have so much pride in that will always baffle me

yeah it's less "we're trying to be inclusive" and more "shut up let me call you a thing you will hate bc you can't accept that america is the whole continent, not just your country"

time to start calling yall freedomians

Continents. But yeah, we deserve it for having waaaaaay too many people on TV calling every not-Canada/not-US American country Mexico.

calling amurricans "feedomians" would just encourage them

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freeaboos ....

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FREEABOOS

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FREEABOOS

USians made sense to me since it conveys very precisely that the person saying it is referring to people living in the United States in a somewhat concise way (compared to like, "people who live in the US")

saying something like "Staters" is imprecise because there are other countries that have states, too

(I live in one of them)