Funny you had to put a disclaimer for authoritarianism. The world’s history and propaganda have made it synonymous with the far left, where that ideology was never about absolute power, but quite the opposite.

As opposed to images on the internet… XD

If anything it would actually take more effort to replicate a physical stamp now that I think about it.

Sir, this isn’t reddit

Software engineer here, can confirm I’ve never received anything by post in my life, it’s always couriers. My assumption is that post stamps are boomer NFTs.

Lodash wants to know your location

The sarcasm here would be lost on so many people…

Thinking that individual European countries have local identities and states or others don’t is absolutely a lack of understanding and not a lack of context.

That’s not at all what I said. It’s in fact the opposite and because of that I said I can’t argue with most of your previous points.

On your latter point, I do lack some understanding on the native reservations, but as far as I know they’re still under the governance of the US to some extent. My assumption was they can at least participate in the ‘democracy’ which affects them immensely. It’s very sad that’s not the case…

I can’t and don’t want to argue with your point, however in the faceless internet space unless you specify you speak from the name of a specific subgroup, the blanket ‘American’ is implied. It’s not a lack of understanding, it’s a lack of context.

Contrary to that Europe doesn’t have one cohesive identity, your example of Orban is multiple country borders removed from me personally. I don’t have the power to vote for/against him or influence that country in any way, where that’s different in your case.