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  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    As a non American, I gotta admit that I enjoy seeing America crumbling down like this. Their ideology of unfettered capitalism has done so much wrong in the world in so many ways the past 60 years or so. From enabling coups in many countries to establish control over resources with violent pro-American dictators, starting wars over oil, ruining the environment and gaining control over the world economy, eroding people’s working conditions and rights and just overall establishing this shitty system where we work two jobs and can’t even afford a home or plan for a family or a decent retirement.

    You don’t have to be a tankie to admit the U.S. has been a shitty ally and overall a toxic country. It’s about time the rest of the world dumped their ass to find someone better who will respect them.

    Hopefully new alliances will form between countries with better, more progressive and peaceful values, aiming on working together for a better world.

    I’m just hoping Canada and Europe can take the lead on this.

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      I gotta admit that I enjoy seeing America crumbling down like this.

      The fuck is the matter with you? The CIA overthrew some governments in the 70s and now you “enjoy” seeing the crumbling of what little right trans people had? You enjoy seeing the crumbling of habeus corpus where students are being kidnapped off the street by plainclothes officers? Do you enjoy seeing the crumbling of due process and the people deported to El Salvadorian prions for autism awareness tattoos?

      You don’t have to be a tankie to admit the U.S. has been a shitty ally and overall a toxic country.

      Even if your assessment were accurate, and it’s just patently, obviously not, enjoying sitting back and watching a government openly bully trans teenagers because the US helped Isreal or didn’t provide the aid to Ukraine you would have preferred (or whatever!), is just a horrible, horrible, ignorant and harmful perspective. If you truly cared about “progressive and peaceful values” values, you would be advocating for the US to change, not cheering it’s “crumbling”.

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        3 days ago

        Of course I’m not enjoying watching people’s rights being trampled. I’m not talking about individual Americans!

        I’m talking about the country, it’s government, it’s policies, it’s economic and democratic stranglehold on other nations.

        When people criticize Israël, do you call them antisemites too because you think they criticize individual jews?

        C’mon man. You completely jumped to a conclusion here.

        Everything you mentioned is pretty much par for the course for America. The way its gouvernent has treated its citizens by using violence through its different agencies throughout the past several decades. I sympathize with them for what’s happening to them. But am I surprised? No. And I sure as hell don’t enjoy it. What kind of sociopath do you think I am?