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This meme is not that good, but can we take a moment to discuss how USA has taken America as it's name? Being from the continent is weird, one country has gaslighted the rest of the world into thinking they are the owner of America's name.
Imagine South Africa calling themselves just Africa and everyone just agrees, wtf?
The one that bothers me is calling the natives Indians.
I think they prefer to be called Native United States of Americans.
(This is a bad joke, playing on the original topic, don't hate me)
Always has felt totally wrong. They have their own name, our ancestors forced another.
Yes! It's so annoying! Saying "USians" sounds weird, but it's the USians own fault for having a stupidly named country on stolen land.
Call them Union Members, it’s what their founding fathers called them
I think amerikkkians works well.
Not saying it isn't somewhat strange, but the continent is North America, so it's not actually the same.
Call it super-continent if it illustates better what I mean. There is a clear intention on referring to your country with the name of the totality of the continent. You know the history