• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    What tf has the United States stood for, if not colonialism, racism and genocide?

    I’m glad USAians are starting to despise their country as much as the rest of the world now that it’s starting to happen to them, but please keep the lusting after the good ol days that never existed to the boomers.

    • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      55 minutes ago

      Why is lemmy filled with this?

      What do you want from this interaction?

      Do you want them to feel shame for not seeing the truth you’ve seen? What are you trying to accomplish?

      Things are bad. Things are getting worse. People are learning this in real time, and the endless commentary of “it always has been” and “nothing’s new” is not helpful or productive. It doesn’t even make sense. People are coming around to your point of view - that things are bad. Maybe, as they learn why and how things are bad, they will learn about some of the things that have always been bad, but they won’t learn it from a comment like this.

      Things are bad. Things are getting worse. We don’t need more cynicism and apathy. We need to help people understand that things are bad, and things are getting worse.

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        5 minutes ago

        Sorry, in the future I’ll be more respectful of people who say they’ll defend colonialism, racism and genocide with their lives.