• AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    This country stands, and right now those values

    Which values? Colonialism? Genocide? White supremacy? Enslavement of the global south? Anticommunism? Burgers?

    part of what this country stands for is standing agianst tyranny

    Bull.shit. I’m Spanish. Go ahead and tell my murdered ancestors during fascism how glad they are that the US had perfect relationships with Franco. Go ask people in Chile what they think of Pinochet and his US-Sponsored fascist coup. Or go ask the progressive leaders of the middle east like Mosaddegh, who were eliminated from power through destabilisation. And that’s fucking nothing compared with what the people of Vietnam, Laos or Korea endured during the most intensive bombing campaigns in human history (Laos was bombed by the US with more explosives than the entire explosives used in WW2). Your country IS THE TYRANT, it doesn’t stand against tyranny.

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      6 hours ago

      Hope. The US has historically been a rough country for almost everyone. It has also historically been “the land of opportunities.” The fact that once again, as in the gilded age, our “leaders” have forgotten the one redeeming quality of our broken old democracy, has once again extinguished the idea of hope.

      As Churchill once said, “you can trust that the Americans will eventually do the right thing. They’ll just try everything else first.” The fact that we don’t think that is at all true, isn’t good for anyone.

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        6 hours ago

        Stop your weird nationalism: the US is a colonial empire as are most western European countries. Accept it, and move on, you’re being an american exceptionalist right now, which is a racist position.