In American slang we often refer to money as “benjamins” this is a subtle reference to Benjamin Netanyahu, an American folk figure who takes all of our money
@kawanuu_anims@JustMyOpinion_2@suchnerve Because you're being hypocritical.
Elon Musk is one of AI's biggest advocates. You enjoy X's features due to AI translation. Grok is being trained off of all our posts.
If you want to be a moral purist and swear off of AI, the only logical next step is to boycott X.
@vivovinco@sanson_ganbaru 1. Yes.
2. Popular sovereignty in the U.S. was a political compromise that referred to individual states choosing whether to own Black slaves or not.
3. An agrarian nation powered by slaves. That's what made it 'distinct' from the North.
Here's a video with primary sources:
@sanson_ganbaru@vivovinco The Japanese town is "America-coded" because it looks like it could be part of any city in America.
The post is a combination of self-deprecation at our own modern day franchising culture, and the fact that it just looks familiar. The post below went viral for the same reason.
@sanson_ganbaru@vivovinco The person you're talking to isn't making sense.
For one thing, we didn't have a Civil War over "whether to industrialize or enjoy nature forever". We had a war about whether Black people should be slaves or not.
Secondly, a Civil War 160 years ago has nothing to do with this.
it’s so funny that people understand all of the other countries named ‘republic of’ or ‘united states of’ or ‘united kingdom of’ perfectly fine but for the ‘united states of america’ they pretend like ‘america’ isn’t an integral part of the name