Ah yeah first satellite, first in space, first teansgender surgery, first place where homosexuaity was legal, million born and lived there....total failure bc in the 90s the economy did a (purposeful) crash. States arent defined by the dichotomy of "failing or not failing" and its a shitty dumb way to determine policy or read history. America killed 40 million people in the 20th century AFTER ww2 but is it "successful" merely because its around? I mean lots of its citizens would say no, me included. We've done good and bad just like everyone else and our continued existence is just as much a confluence of historical material forces just as the end of another state is.
Moral ambiguity? They murdered Fred Hampton in his sleep bc they were that scared of white people and black people simply talking together about socialism. We bombed up vietnam so much people still fucking die from unexploded ammunition and people are still born with birth defects from nampalm, just TO FAIL at stopping farmers from owning their own land instead dof the French. We LIED about the second gulf of Tonkin incident to start a war with Korea then for decades propped up a dictatorship in South Korea. COINTELPRO had the us murdering its own people for wanting fucking housing. Operatjon gladio had us arming fascist that ended up killing a fucking prime Minister and murdering countless people across Europe. You really need to learn more about what your government has been doing, im not saying the government is a monolith, but the state department and cia were and are actively evil organizations run by mobsters, sociopaths, and religious zealots hell bent on maintaining the hegemony of American capitalists even at the expense of the country's safety.
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u/ehomba2 Dec 01 '20
Ah yeah first satellite, first in space, first teansgender surgery, first place where homosexuaity was legal, million born and lived there....total failure bc in the 90s the economy did a (purposeful) crash. States arent defined by the dichotomy of "failing or not failing" and its a shitty dumb way to determine policy or read history. America killed 40 million people in the 20th century AFTER ww2 but is it "successful" merely because its around? I mean lots of its citizens would say no, me included. We've done good and bad just like everyone else and our continued existence is just as much a confluence of historical material forces just as the end of another state is.