Hi! European and new user here! I just read the origin story of Lemmy and there was a mentioning op “Pro US” and to be really honest I didn’t understand.
Instead of doing a google i thought it might be interesting to see what you think he would mean by that! :)
Would really need to see the context, because unfortunately, it matters, A LOT.
Typically, when I hear “pro US”, I think of the brainwashed Fox/MSNBC/CNN people, the Pro2A asshats, and the traitors that tried to overthrow the government on Jan 6th. Or, the gung-ho cops (think punisher sticker or thin blue line flags everywhere) or the enlisted military guys with the lifted trucks, and giant flags/stickers for all things “right wing”.
To me, pro US is more about getting back to the progressive ideals more like the Roosevelt’s New Deal era (in no way saying he was perfect, or commenting on him, or his presidency specifically)
How it pertains to a social media site? I hope less of the former, and more of the latter ideologies here.
this represents 3 different groups of people who, largely, not only disagree on many sociopolitical issues, but also largely hate each other.
just FYI
Fox is pretty far right, CNN is kind of in the middle, and MSNBC leans leftish, as mainstream US cable media outlets go