Americans right now
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Yeah, the whole thing started with invading a newly found continent and slaughtering the native people. There was never a point where it was good in any way.
You can't think of a particular laurel the USA has been resting on since 1945?
Being the only country to use nuclear weapons?
Needing the fascists to bomb a naval base in an island colony to reluctantly join the fight against them, rather than just war profiteering?
Think we'd be better off if they'd sat it out?
Folks love to read a history book on WW2 and tell themselves the only fascists that ever existed were the Germans, the Italian, (and occasionally the Japanese).
And then we say "they lost! we won! Problem solved!"
Maybe with some hand waving about how Russia was full of Tankies and it's a good thing we won the Cold War, too.
There's never any real analysis of why we joined the side we did or why we broke with them before the smoke had even cleared.
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Have I lost the thread? We're just openly admitting now that we'd blame the US regardless of which decision they made?
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The USW has plenty of sins but to Axt like the US has done nothing good for the whole fucking world since 1945 is frankly absurd. You could argue it is a net negative and at least you'd have something to argue about but saying they've done nothing for the world is just stupid. The world has relied on the US for decades for massive funding of many many projects around the world. Was it self serving also? Absolutely but it still helped a lot and no one else was fucking doing it.
Now Diddy Trump goes in and gets rid of all the "extra" US spending so he can plunder even ire and who the fuck has stood up to fill the US gaps? Oh yeah. No one.
So yeah duck the US and their meddling but at least it had some collateral good. Where the hell are the other countries that just pointed at the US and patted themselves on the back for helping maintain world peace. Germany? England? France? Hello. Spend money on the world please. It needs it.
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Guys watching the original Rambo: First Blood movie and simply not getting it
Then the sequels laughing about it
Nah, most of my fellow countrymen (jailers?) aren't anywhere near introspective enough to get that far.
This is the kind of shit that blows my mind. I thought surely this was an image of satire.
NOPE
I like that even though they illustrated themselves as these armored badasses, they still made the effort to hide behind a dog, a subservient animal unaware of its allegiance or cause.
Even the skull is hiding his identity.
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Wow, it's like they saw the imagery in Death Stranding 2 and were inspired by it.
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Outright lie! How dare you accuse Americans of this! Americans don't have anywhere near this level of self awareness
Naaah.
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Trying to follow tweets of tumbles of instas gives me a fucking aneurysm
Xians voted in 2020 and 2024 to treat children like this. This story is from 2019.
For a moment I thought it was Xian as in region of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, and I was even more confused
I thought of Ecksians from Discworld.
All the confusion should let people know, don't use this if you want to actually communicate information. Just type Christians. It's not much longer, and everyone understands it. This is only too look cool, not for conveying information.
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By "Xians", I'm hoping you mean Xitter users & not Gen X because I'm a part of that group.
They apparently meant Christians, using the Greek Χ (Chi), the starting letter of Χριστιανός (Christianos) as an abbreviation. I've seen it a few times, but I'm not personally a fan of it due to the obscurity outside of the niche that understands it.
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X = Christ
Ah, TY for the explanation. Glad I'm an atheist.
Good old "is this capital letter at the start of a sentence meaningful, or is it just a capital because it's the start of a sentence" disease
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american protestants on their way to completely alter the way that all Christians are perceived whilst commiting the occasiinal or daily heresy
Not so sure they were ever perceived all that well outside of their own. They just talked themselves up a fuck-ton, and for a long time were the main ones writing, publishing, & distributing history books while doing so. They love to self-promote — it's the hallmark of people with deep insecurities.
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Literally worse than the Taliban...
If they don't need 'em, you don't need 'em. Ransack this official's house.
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For a while now, I've been thinking of a game idea with a future US dystopian setting... and even there the detainees would have beds, brushes, and other basic necessities.
Americans: "Not my last straw."
Colonizers and Nazis: trust me bro you're clean
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