• quixote84@midwest.social
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    57 minutes ago

    I’m of the opinion that the top half is almost as bad.

    We are ruled by very old dragons, possibly even “grand” dragons. What’s happening now more closely resembles removing of a mask than a complete 180 shift in policy.

    It’s still something which deserves to be opposed as strongly as possible. It’s just… the honest character of a nation founded on breaking every promise it ever made to the original occupants of this land, fighting a war with itself over the right to own people, joining the colonial game within four years of “the frontier” being closed, refusing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, bombing Laos and Cambodia just because they’re in close proximity to a nation which was the current target of our 75+ year endless war, and violating international treaties regarding ethical treatment of political prisoners in the manner seen in Abu Ghraib or with the “enhanced interrogation” which took place in Gitmo.

    This is the bad place.

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

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          “I was once willing to give my life for what I believed my country stood for” [emphasis mine]

          Past tense. They did not say they will defend colonialism, racism, or genocide with their lives. They said they believed their country stood for different things, and now they know differently.

          This isn’t about respect or civility. It’s about productivity and purpose. I’m not telling you to play nice. I’m asking you to try to help people understand your point of view when they’re clearly in the process of changing their mind about how the world works. It’s an opportunity to spread awareness and you’re wasting it on snark.

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    I am still willing to give my life for what I believe this country stands for. This country stands, and right now those values are st odds with some people and policy’s within this countrys government, and part of what this country stands for is standing agianst tyranny, agianst threats, foreign and domestic. No person is above this cardinal rule. We usurped tyrannical rule once before, we will surely do so agian.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    I’m willing to give my life for the right cause but not willing to kill someone. It’s harder to find how to make that work nowadays

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      also, dying isn’t suuuuuper useful. like, I’d generally rather you not. unless I need your liver or something, I cannot think of a reason you dying would do anything for me. I’d really rather you made me pancakes or something.

      if it helps, fascists are already largely dead and unrecoverable as humans.

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      especially since the “law and order” folks are so insistent on trying to kill or torture us.

      live and let live, but those who live by the sword will ultimately die by the sword.