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rwem | 6 years ago

This is the second time in one day that some bozo on HN has assumed that “we” means “Americans”. A peculiar American habit.

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WorldMaker|6 years ago

If it helps, that's not how the English pronoun `we` generally works in writing: it doesn't include "you the reader" by default, it simply implies some group to which the writer belongs. If the writer were trying to imply every reader of HN they might more specifically try to use language more resembling `all of us` or `HN`.