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[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Do the guy also love US terrorism and foreign interference? Because that's what people probably take most offence with. There is not a single additional nation on this planet that has couped to many democratically elected governments and replaced them with corrupt authoritarians that are more than willing to oppress and torture their people and cause civil wars and sell out their nation's interest to US interests in exchange for power. The US is sole world leader in evil and hase been for over a hundred years, only briefly eclipsed by individuals like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Kissinger.

Because as someone who is "deeply critical" of US his government and military, he really seems like jeans and jack o'lanterns have any weight when people call the globally most hated nation on earth a barbaric terrorist shithole.

And let's not even start counting warcrimes or threats of acts of war towards their "allies".

Fun fact: ask people to name three governments the US has couped. See what happens. Just three.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most globally hated? Get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fair enough, China and Russia managed to compete with the US in the last couple of years. Enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What do you suggest we Americans do? I can vouch for the fact that spending my entire life feeling ashamed of my country has not helped to make it better, despite doing my best to be an outspoken critic of American policy.... so I'm hoping you can provide a suggestion for a viable path to redemption.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Protest. Create awareness. Because, you now, unlike the Chinese or Russians, Americans have the freedom to do so without getting vanished in re-education camps and gulags.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If protests worked in the US we wouldn't have had a second war with Iraq.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Americans have the freedom to do so without getting vanished in re-education camps and gulags.

Unless you were protesting against the murder of George Floyd, then you could indeed be picked up by unmarked vans with unmarked heavily armed guys inside.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We provide some of the best and some of the worst this world has to offer. But, that's also true of a lot of, if not all, countries.

Motherfucker ain't even mention bubble gum.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

American exceptionalism always made me cringe, but it makes me cringe more the older I get. I hate how presidential candidates feel like they have to call the US the most powerful, the greatest, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's true of any politician tbh, I'm indian and most of the elections are about how we were great and ancient and holy and blah blah.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The post: Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that there are at least some positives to be found in in the US?

The comments: No

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