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The US is Fanning the Flames of War with China (truthout.org)
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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

feddit.uk

lmao is this literally a lemmy instance for British feds? this has to be some reverse psychology from the Ml5

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Britain doesn't have "feds", fed is a really American thing. It's short for "federated reddit" basically.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Britain doesn’t have “feds”, fed is a really American thing.

wiktionary says otherwise and even has a newspaper citation for British use of it to refer to local cops.

(I guess thanks to Hollywood's influence...)