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This isn't world news.
I feel like these comments would carry much more weight if this board was more popular.
It's not like we're missing anything by including these articles, yet.
Yeah I don't want to sound riled up or anything, but avoiding US local news is getting annoying. Even german newspapers and radio are full of it. It's just not something I expect to see in worldnews.
Not world news.
TIL the US isn't in the world.
I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn't it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between "the US" and "literally everyone else"?
Personally, I don't think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we're just letting the US be the center that "world news" revolves around.
Who says the only options are "world news" or "US news"? Just post in the relevant country's news community. If it doesn't exist, start it!
I always took "world news" to mean "news that affects the world", which this definitely doesn't.
The name of someone who died, while completely horrible, isn't actually of note to anyone outside the locality unless they were notable or specifically targeted for a relatable reason.
I'm so bored of hearing about their self inflicted problems, the same ones over and over again.
At this point I don't care anymore about how many of their own children they kill. It's like my dramatic cousin phoning me and for the 50th time whining about her problems, that she makes, but is incapable of fixing.
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Myself and a multitude of others grow more and more openly hostile and polarized to this typical loud American attitude every day. Contributions like this are one small reason why, and the momentum isn't slowing down. Your response isn't thoughtful reflection, it's just loud chewing.
The full list of reasons I comment on your trash is too complex to get into now so your request for me to not speak is denied and it would be a waste of time to try explain it to you.
Go ahead and prove me wrong with something other than venomous vitriol, anything beyond ad hominem?
It’s not news in the context of the US, this happens like every week there. Children get shot at school and have to be identified. Business as usual.
I mean there's more than these two categories. There's "Canadian news", "French news", "South Korean news", "USA news", and so on. It's not a privileged classification, it's national news, every country has them.
And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.
I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the "news" community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.
I just think it's just regrettable that the idea of "world news" is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the "not world news" crowd is completely absent in the comments.
I never thought of it this way, but you make a great argument. I agree with this.
Very little news actually concerns the whole world, but this is no different than hearing about a lot of other things posted in the sub. Besides, we aren't exactly knocking down the flood gates of posts here on lemmy.
Crazy and depressing that you can look at a headline like this and think "which school shooting? There have been so many!"
"USA school shooting identified"
is that all we did was identify a victim?
are we not going to change the country's gun laws or promote and fund mental health or do anything else or
just bag and tag and move on to the next horror show
starting to feel like any day now we are going to wake up to
"Yesterday's body count lottery rounded out to a solid 'n' sturdy thirty! Ten outta Heywood - thanks to the unabated gang wars! One officer down, so I guess you are all screwed. 'Cause the NCPD will not let that go. Got another blackout in Santo Domingo. Netrunners are at it again, pokin' holes in the power grid. While over in Westbrook, Trauma Team's scrapin' cyberpsycho victims off the pavement. And in Pacifica... Well... Pacifica is still Pacifica.
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