• Aequitas@feddit.org
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      You Americans are so delusional. This “America is the best country in the world” nonsense that is drummed into you as schoolchildren is nothing but propaganda. It’s just sad that many people still believe it as adults. For almost everyone on the planet, including Americans, the US primarily brings suffering. Whether directly, as in this current case, in Palestine or countless other military operations, indirectly through the capitalist exploitation of entire countries, trade blockades, economic sanctions, attacks via financial markets, or in the long term through its climate and environmental crimes.

      The US will ruthlessly assert its interests (i.e., the interests of the American owner class), regardless of the price that other people, including Americans themselves, have to pay. Meanwhile, anything and anyone who does not submit is threatened. And when nothing else helps, they bring in the military.

      My country is also bad. So are many others if not all. But at the top of the list of the most harmful, evil, and worst countries in the world is clearly the US.

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        Best country in the world – exclusively bad You see there is a difference? Also, stop assuming things about others you discuss with, you do not know where I am from. Discuss the topic itself instead.

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      I mean it’s hard not to see things that way right now, saying this as an American.

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        Some of these people are saying the US was always bad which is rubbish.
        For an example of good things that were done in the past pick at random from the $2b before trump cut it from USAID.

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            Name anything good any other country has done then. And be sure to exclude things that are even a little self-serving.

            • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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              Why should you bring up other countries when we’re discussing the US? Especially when the US is not like any other country but the center of global imperialism?

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                Why should you bring up other countries when we’re discussing the US?

                If you’re going to say “A” is bad you need something to compare it to as a standard. So tell me - what shining beacon of freedom and altruism would you say the US is lagging behind?

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                    They said something is good, you said the same thing is bad. They want an example of good to compare to so they know what common reference point to use. Doesn’t seem like goal post shifting at all.

                    What IS an example of something good?

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          It is like these people always were like that and just want to jump out and finally shout some rubbish. They are just as manipulated/manipulative as MAGA.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            “People who are justly upset that America is invading a country illegally like they have for a literal century are MAGA.”

            MAGA is the ones who are doing it, sane people are the ones who are calling it out. You’re the one justifying that it’s okay because America does a vague good thing, while never getting into the good things they do.

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              It is clear now that you did not follow what was said. Upset, yes, we all are. That does not make the whole history of all of the USA exclusively bad. That is literally was is being discussed here, despite how obviously rubbish that is.