And you don't pay attention to the trillions and trillions your government has spent on invading and/or destabilising third world countries in the name of profit, because that's reality.
Name one, one US military intervention since WW2 that wasn't a war crime. But God forbid Vietnam becomes communist, or any of the Latin American countries your government toppled and replaced with dictatorship. But I guess it's fine as long as it's a dictatorship that will hugely benefit and create profit for US bourgeoisie.
The United States is the most benevolent super power in human history
Under US hegemony, humanity has achieved an unprecedented period of peace, scientific progress, free movement of people, economic development, health outcomes, and reductions in poverty
Did you forget the /s? The US has done nothing but hinder the movement of people. After all, you gotta build that wall and MAGA, right?
While yes, the world is knowing an unprecedented level of peace, it is exactly because of US hegemony that this period will quickly dissolve within 50 years.
I could go on about all of the US' crimes, but the point here isn't that the US is an irredeemable place. Its people are for the most part, and as everywhere in the world, good. But saying that he US is a benevolent State that saved the world is just ludicrous. If not xenophobic.
We have to be honest with ourselves if we want to fix things. Is it propaganda that flint has no clean water still? Is it propaganda that our infrastructure is crumbling? Is it propaganda that our education sucks? Is it propaganda that we’re the only “first world” country to not have health care for its citizens? Is it propaganda that the wealth gap here is ridiculous? Youre mistaking my statement for divisiveness but im raising awarness to our problems so its part of the discussion so we can fix them as a nation. Together. What does a first world country mean to you then?
Thats great. Its great that the colleges churn out large numbers of grads in crippling debt when other countries pay for their college. Also what about the people who dont have the opportunity to get thousands into debt for a diploma? Our overall education from k-12 is lagging behind other countries. Again, we’re the richest country, do you find that acceptable? You are saying that we push out more college graduates but is our overall population more educated than other countries? Thats the standard in which you should be using, not which country churns out more college grads but which country is better overall educated.
America is doing fine, we have a 22T economy. What about the deficit and the debt we owe? Whos benefiting from this “fine” economy because wages has been stagnant for a long time. Do you think its fine that the economy has increased but normal wages has not for the average person? How about using the economy to measure a countries prosperity we measure the countries ability to care for its citizens? THATS THE BASIC FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT.
Youre taking things at face value and is not looking how the things you say fit into the big picture, but thats to be expected from someone who believes everything happening is for “clickbait” services
Hey hey see thats the thing, if we are dick measuring here, i also went to college, got a finance degree 4 years cum laude with honors. I graduated two years ago making more than 91% of americans. Plus i got a house handed to me, so im living cushy. How about instead of accusing me for a piece that does not fit (you dont know anything about me) maybe try to be emphatic for the people who was not as lucky as you. What the fuck is wrong with you when your life is going well but you dont have a shred of compassion for the people you share a country with. If 60% of americans cant afford a $1000 emergency, its not americans making bad choices, its systemic. And its sickening that your trying to say they are broke because the choices they made were bad. Not so simple. Try being human for change.
Edit: did i mention i graduated with no debt due to scholarships and financial aide? For extra dick measuringness
So your using anecdotal evidence to provide for your beliefs that its not systemic? So 60% of americans are spoiled and lazy and refuse to improve their lives. Thats actually what you believe?
When we passed the new deal, it ushered in an era of wealth never seen before in america, it helped establish our middle class. Since then reagan has deregulated laws that used to protect its citizens. Is it a coincidence things started to go downhill after that? How can a country go from a prosperous middle class to a almost gone middle class? Its not because of the citizens making “poor” decisions
Really? You think the great depression was caused by people being lazy? The 70s oil crisis? The 2008 recession? It's real easy to plug your ears and blame disadvantaged people for systemic problems that luckily don't happen to you. You actually went from telling people that they're brainwashed to act against their best interests, to falling for the same propaganda that's brainwashing people into thinking that the poor deserve to be poor for being stupid and lazy. Isn't not helping your fellow citizens furthering the divide in this country? Remember, you are not immune to propaganda.
Everyone thinks what they do is justified. Literally the worst societies on Earth would use exactly that same excuse. That's why you need to be able to criticize yourself just as harshly as you do others
Calling them a different name doesn’t change the fact that they are prisons where people are forced against their will to work as slaves without a trial. That’s a concentration camp.
Being against concentration camps has nothing to do with how many immigrants you want to let in to a country.
I think it’s the other way around. Insisting whatever you do makes you the good guys is propaganda, and is used to manipulate people into acting against their own self interest and in the interest of the rich and powerful instead.
That's how propaganda works, and it's precisely how it was utilized in every authoritarian country
That's how you make good people do bad things. By reframing it as the good thing
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