• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    24 hours ago

    I think it’s clear that Americans were always so ruthless, depraved and racist. Over the past decades they simply had good PR. They killed thousands of civilians in Hiroshima just to show off and then engaged in decades long campaign of murder, rape and plunder all over the world. The only thing that saved them from being seen for what they are was good marketing: movies selling the American dream, well behaved politicians pretending they are leading civilized country and economic power keeping everyone else in check. This is simply the mask falling off. Trump and his administration are to stupid to play the PR game and everyone can see what US really is.

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      15 hours ago

      Iran’s military would NEVER attack a defenseless target!

      oh.

      How about we destroy all of their military assets and if the soldiers don’t want to get killed, they can desert?

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        who the fuck are you destroy other countries military assets? americans are all scum without any exception, fuck off

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        15 hours ago

        When you have to prove that US is actually not worse than a brutal regime but only just as bad you’re not doing as great as you think.

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        No ethnicity has a monopoly on racism. It is global to the human condiction. It may be that in European / US it’s predominantly by white European people. But it’s not hard to find examples of it all around the world, extant and from the past where ethnicity, caste, religion, language is used as an excuse to hate on and subjugate some outside group.

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        19 hours ago

        So just ‘men’ then? Or you don’t have genocide in Africa?

        But if Americans are specially racists and ruthless is an interesting question. On one hand I’m pretty sure they simply took advantage of their position on international stage and many other countries would do the same in their situation. Russians for sure are not better. On the other hand any country could oppress big parts of their population the way US does and most civilized countries don’t do it. US is leading the world in mass incarceration, still loves death penalty and is practicing slavery. European countries could do the same but don’t for some reason. Is lack of power the only reason? I think American ideology has a lot to do with it. It managed to create the richest shithole in the world and that’s a very unique achievement. Personally I think it is the result of brainwashing every American goes trough.

        I read somewhere how the educational system in the British Empire was specifically designed to create people able to ruthlessly govern over vast population of people. Is American system designed in the same way? A mix of superiority and stupidity that makes people immune to self-reflection and ready to brutalize everyone they see as the lower class?

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        I’m not sure of the ethnicities of the US personnel that drowned the unharmed Iranians but statistically speaking not all of the were white men but all of them US Americans.

        So probably racist is not the right word.