• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    The Russia, Israel and China are all doing their genocides on a scale far bigger than what USA

    American Exceptionalism strikes again.

    You’ve got Americans blowing up hospitals and daycares in Iran, shooting up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, sieging Cuba to the point of mass starvation, and facilitating genocides from Libya to Afghanistan. But the pre-programmed western response is “I think the other countries are worse!” That’s all that matters. You heard the other guys were worse.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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      I don’t know if it’s American Exceptionalism in this case so much as a failure to adjust to current year. That argument could have been made with obama-era Amereica but not today.