Aaand thats why americans only knowing english is a stereotype. The average person on earth speaks more than one language, its only in priviledged imperialist states like russia, usa, china and some poor monocultural countries that its normal to speak one language. Everywhere else you either learn em cause you need it, its prestige or because its good practice to be able to speak to others in their own language. There are many places in europe where knowing three or four languages are not unusual and lets not even talk about africa where there were entire trading tribes whos whole thing was knowing a bunch of languages.
China and Russia are both large diverse countries where different people speak different languages …… and the central government strongly encourages a common one. I wager you’re wrong about them
Yeah but theyre all marginalized and only people who grew up with it speak it. Theres a difference between learning a language youre not related to in any capacity just because its culturally relevant or something and learning a language because youre born with it. There are extremely few second language nganasan, ket, komi, erzya, etc speakers who arent also part of the ethnic group. Thats why people learning languages like cree, navajo, nuxalk, etc as second languages as white americans just because they can is such a beautiful thing. Youre ancestors have taken so much from them but youre trying to make it right. Point is, the vast majority of white, orthodox russians only speak russian and maybe english.
Ironically, America is also much more linguistically rich than that person who doesn’t live here is assuming.
omg I’m in a shitpost lemmy…
I would say that the vast majority of people speaks at least one language. Even americans usually speak a language. Now if you are talking about a secondary language, numbers are definitely lower.
According to the US census, there are 76 million multilingual people, 23% of the population. In March 2025 the White House released an executive order declaring, “…it is in America’s best interest for the Federal Government to designate one — and only one — official language” (The White House). In 2021 there were 5.3 million students receiving English Language Learner services.[104] Additionally, Net immigration rates have drastically increased since 2021 from 247,000 to 2.8 million in 2024 (US census).
Trump wants to keep Americans unilingual.
So if you have 10 people and just 1 of them speaks two languages and everyone else only speaks one lets do some math.
11 tongues/10 persons = 1.1 average languages per person
1.1 > 1
“The average person on earth speaks more than one language” is absolutely true purely mathematically
Its the polical equivalent of “look! Over there!” while he poisons your wine.
It’s one of the classic blunders.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how Republicans get votes.
Choose freedom? Like the freedom to be charged for criticising data centres? That sort of freedom? How about the freedom to be executed in the street by law enforcement? I’ll pass, I don’t really want their freedom.
I’m more European than he is because all of my ancestors were traveling whores, apparently.
That said, I’ve no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can’t, that must make you one of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid, or racist.
Any one of these should disqualify somebody whose job is to work for the people.
That said, I’ve no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can’t, that must make you
oneall of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid,orand racist.Damn, I guess people with speech impediments are illiterate, lazy, stupid and racist. Nice ableism you got there.
You’re the life of every party you go to, aren’t you?
Riiiiight. You know that’s not what I meant. A disability obviously doesn’t mean someone is illiterate, lazy, stupid and racist. Unless they look at the name and say “that person ain’t fucking white!” Then they’re stupid and racist…
Then why would you use an unverifiable universal statement? This is how people with different abilities end up marginalized. One of my friends is a phonoaudiologist and their work is incredible, being able to communicate properly after an accident or being born with an impediment is in my opinion more imperative than being able to walk. I’m sorry if I came across as an asshole, but no one should feel invisible.
Im struggling. Its pure laziness.
ab. dool. ra. mon. abdul rahman. abdulrahman.
Mmmm…ramen…
That “nobody” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
But we love Dune
They’re even using their same old tired playbook from 20 years ago. Remind me again, did that work well against Barack Hussein Obama?
Unfortunately, the racist playbook seems to be working really, really well for them right now. Let’s see if that starts changing in a couple weeks.
Yes, it worked really well for Obama. So I guess keep it coming?
Not only can I pronounce it, it sounds cool.
Yea, are they dumb?
Yes
Especially nice when a native Arabic speaker says it.
The “El-” sounds like a title.
Kal-El
Kal-El the Great!
It kind of is. El-Sayed roughly means “the master” or “the chief”.
The Master Chief?!
I’m willing to bet he’s fine with just being called Abdul as well.
If you can learn how to pronounce all the Finnish, Polish, Czech, and Slovak last names in Michigan, names like this should be easy. There’s not even a bunch of silent consonants in there!
Mee-Chee-gaan.
Finnish is super easy to pronounce for Anglos. Just take your time and pronounce every letter.
The problem is when they have mishmashed English and Finnish to make brand new words. Kowsit Lats = Cow Shit Flats, where people put their cows out to pasture.
You’re going to have to give some hints - my browser can’t translate that and Google thinks I’m looking for exercises, doesn’t even recognize it as Finnish……. Otherwise I’ll have to remember it as “cow shit flats” because I know what that is
The current pronunciation is closer to Cow Sit Lats. “Finlanders gave the name to a broad meadow at the top of a hill where local farmers grazed their cattle. They had trouble pronouncing the English combinations “sh” and “fl,” so in their “Finnglish” argot they called the place Kowsit Lats.”
And put the emphasis on the FIRST vowel.
It’s NO-kia, not No-KIA.
You’re gonna need an hour or so to teach ‘em the Ä, Ö, and Y letters; and pray they don’t take the hydrofoil over to Tallinn, because then they’re really gonna get confused. “🇫🇮👈🤬👉🇪🇪 What the hell is going on, you two!”
Lol the mainland Estonian õ is pretty fatal too.
TIL: Estonia has islands, I guess I had seen them on the map before, it just never registered I guess.
Yeah they’re pretty big.
Ha! I almost mentioned that, too lol
“The guy with the long name that’s not Republican”
There I said it, even without touching it, you can do it as well, racists.
The mere aspect of voting for a ruling class is sinister.
Go Abdul. A vote for Abdul is finally a vote for the people!
Imagine being this uncultured.
Counter ad:
Mike Rogers? A name so generic it has definitely been the name of a pedophile. Are you sure it isn’t the same Mike Rogers?
Vote Abdul El-sayed
FWIW,
Michael S. Rogers (born 1959), director of the National Security Agency
Mike Rogers (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian hockey player
Michael Rogers (actor) (born 1970), Canadian television and film actor
Michael Rogers (publisher) (born 1963), American publisher, fundraiser, gay rights leader, and former blogger
They’re so fucking dumb.
This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, “ha! how can anyone be this dumb?” “Has anyone ever been stupider?” “HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!” Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.
This isn’t stupidity, it’s a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it’s a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or agreeing with it is so far from the point. It’s about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. “The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow or horrendous racism we can get you to defend, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you’d look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line.”
For the rest of you, it’s a demoralization tactic. They’re rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won’t abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. “We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?”
“The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried,” Trump says. Not because he’s an idiot (which he IS, but that isn’t what’s on display here), but because the truth doesn’t matter when you’re not actually trying to convince anyone of anything. It isn’t about persuasion, it’s a demonstration of impunity. They’re showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.
I was actually referring to the base, not this guy specifically. I understand that the politicians and think tanks and pundits and entire conservative system know exactly what they’re doing. Totally agree with you on all points.
The base knows too. They love how upsetting it is for the people they hate to watch them do this. Their willingness to debase themselves is fueled by spite.
