Dear USA,
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@aral I understand your point and share your outrage and frustration. I do feel some of your comments include the fallacy of division. There are many, at great personal and financial cost, fighting book bans, protesting, investigative journalism, standing up for themselves and other vulnerable people. I don’t know whether we are a plutocracy or an oligarchy but individuals are trying to act like sea wall to push back against relentless money and power.
@coleenwalter @aral And jazz, for which I lovingly thank my Irish and African folk.
Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide?
Supremacy culture is a global phenomenon that hypes [anti-] nationalist accusations - as well as racist, classist, sexist instabilities - to keep us separated.
It’s a global oligarchy that colludes at the expense of peoples’ lives.
Solidarity, on the other hand, is a more nuanced antidote to sleepiness of binary thinking. #onelove .
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@aral Yes, Trump is the most American President ever.
@juh Make that “most ugly American” President
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Same feeling when I saw people watching horrible atrocities being committed and says "they aren't human".
No, they are.
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@coleenwalter @aral And jazz, for which I lovingly thank my Irish and African folk.
Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide?
Supremacy culture is a global phenomenon that hypes [anti-] nationalist accusations - as well as racist, classist, sexist instabilities - to keep us separated.
It’s a global oligarchy that colludes at the expense of peoples’ lives.
Solidarity, on the other hand, is a more nuanced antidote to sleepiness of binary thinking. #onelove .
@gdsherif @coleenwalter > Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide?
The ones who do not acknowledge, fail to atone for, continue to benefit from, and continue to inflict such damage?
Yes.
The others? They’re rarely the ones offended by criticism of nations.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral I was surprised how much the idea of “American exceptionalism” was considered accurate by virtually all US politicians – and then used to justify, among other things, “double standards”.
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@aral I really appreciate that. Except for one slightly rebellious teacher in Highschool, I was taught a more sanitized version of history. I’ve had to play catch up over the decades with my own reading. From The Capital Order to Cobalt Red and other writings, I’m trying to put together a clearer picture of our history, economic theories and the consequences to others in the wider world. It’s hard to push back against things we don’t understand.
@coleenwalter @aral A book that could curl your hair. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Half_Has_Never_Been_Told:_Slavery_and_the_Making_of_American_Capitalism
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral Indeed. It's fascinating to watch US liberals get angry over Russia assisting Iran in defending itself against an aggressive war by two belligerents. Embedded in the outrage is the pretext that Iranians should simply accept their fate and die under American and Israeli bombs because they shouldn't be able to retaliate against those attacking them.
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@coleenwalter @aral A book that could curl your hair. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Half_Has_Never_Been_Told:_Slavery_and_the_Making_of_American_Capitalism
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral Hard plus ones here, comrade. Well-voiced.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral we, everywhere, should never have stopped punching Nazis.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral Unfortunately, Exceptionalism is not going quietly.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral
Dear Americans,
You are just like the Europeans
who conquered the land
through a massive genocide of the local indigenous peoples.Dear Europeans,
You are just like the RomansDear Romans,
You are just like the Huns...to be continued
~
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@ManyRoads@mstdn.social @lulu @aral
Joking about genocide. Real classy.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral Yes, all 8 billion people are the-head-of-a-pin, as has been the countless humans before us.
Cookie?
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@aral Yes, all 8 billion people are the-head-of-a-pin, as has been the countless humans before us.
Cookie?
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Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0&pp=ygUSY2FybGluIHBvbGl0aWNpYW5z
@FrancoisPrague Carlin was a legend.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral Like the H. L. Mencken quote goes, (total racist dipshit though he was): "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
another odd phrase I see often is "we're not a third world country", as if their privilege is meant to shield them from those bad things.
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Dear USA,
Donald Trump is exactly who you are.
Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.
Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.
“This is not who we are.”
Bullshit.
This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.
You want to change?
Start by accepting that.
@aral op is simply right.
