Low-key hate America for an extremely specific reason cause my country has generally been ahead of the curve on LGBT rights for the last 20 years (first country to legalize gay marriage, right to change legal gender without undergoing medical procedures) but in recent years I’m seeing a lot of young people in my country get radicalized and become homophobic or transphobic by American influences online and it’s like bro no, we had this on lock, how are they dragging us back down like this
People responding “how can I blame America for my country’s problems” aren’t quite getting it.
Like, I won’t say Australia doesn’t have problems. Our treatment of asylum seekers is arguably worse than America’s and has been so for much longer. But Australia has also had a wave of QAnon believes - which is specifically a conspiracy theory centering on Donald Trump and American politics in general.
Rising fascism in one country emboldens it elsewhere. So when the American far right goes after LGBT rights hard, it’s going to encourage similar elements in other countries to spout the same rhetoric.
Especially when the modern internet isn’t exactly “forums are dead, we all use the same 5 websites now”, it’s “forums are dead, we all use the same 5 American owned websites now”.
American politics are influential, like it or not. Hence Australian QAnons.
No to mention, american evangelical christians fund bigotry in other countries. American evangelicals and their piles of money were instrumental in the laws Uganda passed mandating the death penalty for gay people.
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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees
They existed *before beetles*
Why is this sad? Why am I sad?
This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.
(my own photos)
Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.
Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.
You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.
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Won’t tell you which camp I fall in.
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Fair point.