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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sounds like a term created by those people who get weirdly upset at Americans being called Americans because "America is 2 continents so technically everyone from North and South America is American"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Can't blame them who the fuck would want to get associated with USians

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Shouldn't the term be USAian?
Would have issues when expanded, but someone above mentioned that Mexico is United Mexican States

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yew-ess-ay-ian doesn't flow like yew-ess-ian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I prefer usonian myself, but there's no official name shorter than "citizens of the US".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea, because it is weird, you dolt. It’s literally just because it’s easier to say that it stuck, but it’s flatly useless. The country’s name is stupid, hard to deal with, and pretty much only the reality on the surface…much like the country itself.

I just say “US citizens”. It would probably be more accurate to say “citizens of the USA” buy my fucking god they aren’t worth that kind of effort.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t usually say “US citizens” because I don’t usually mean only residents with citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How about US consumers?

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