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Oh? Tell me about your country then.
There have always been issues. There was a lot of precursor to this. But there has never been anything this bad.
America was a beacon for the world, despite our violations and blemishes. Relative to the rest of history, we were leading the world ina better direction,.
Nixon was out after Watergate. You don't have to bribe our doctors or our cops during traffic stops. While we're having issues with LGBTQ, we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades. That's our norm.
This is Idiocracy.
The CIA planted crack in black neighborhoods, the fbi killed all the civil rights leaders, our government injected black men with syphillis to see what happens,the end of Jim Crow just morphed into mass incarceration for black Americans, we committed a genocide on Native Americans, we have pedophiles running our government, we’ve destabilized hundreds of governments to plunder assets ……I could go on and on we’ve always been a fascist nation. For a moment I thought we might be improving but nope all hope is lost
I imagine if you compile a list of the worst any country has done that it'd look a lot like this.
That doesn't excuse anything, but all those things don't add up to Nazi Germany or 2026 Israel.
We're working on showing you what fascism really is.
Yeah of course you do; because you start from a position of American exceptionalism and then just imagine backwards.
Oh yeah? What's your beacon of a country? England? France? China? Russia?
The fact is we were generally dragging the world (in hand with Europe) towards better ideals, like equal rights for all, democracy, and eliminating low level corruption.
It wasn't always the case, and was certainly in fits and starts. But in our absence I don't see China or India having that generally positive influence on the world.
Yes, there's room for improvement. But if we're at a C while most other countries are content with an F, well...
USAID has done a lot of good around the world.
Jesus, Americans really are the most propagandized people on earth
True. Thanks for that, .ml.
"He's from the bad instance, therefore he's wrong!"
"I made a pithy platitude without addressing any points, and then the guy just pointed out my instance as to why I'm wrong!"
bro i agree with you, but if you're gonna post a derogatory non-sequitur instead of actually giving thought to responding, you should expect the same.
True, thanks for that cuckmaster69.