we must protect our boy Joe

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Biden's numbers dipping makes sense when you realize how demented the foreign policy views of most US Americans are. Of course most Americans wanted a withdrawal, but the way Biden did it embarrassed them. It makes us look bad and for a brief moment, Americans might have actually questioned if USA really is #1. Probably just a microsecond - an event so quick you could say it probably didn't even occur. No different with Iraq. Lib, chud, and apolitical alike Americans are not fucking sorry for invading and killing hundreds of thousands based on a easily falsifiable, paper-thin lie. Americans believed that lie about Iraq because they wanted to. Because war is fucking fun for us. Stuff go boom and we get cool movies about it and get to believe that USA #1!!!! for a little while longer. But then Bush had to go and not decisively win the war. Which - like the withdrawal from Afghanistan - was embarrassing and made us look bad. It's not about the dead Iraqis, it's about our precious self-image as Americans.

    One of these days I'm gonna start a big ol' struggle session about to what extent us normal, working class Americans share in the blame for the evil our country has wrecked abroad. (Hint: I don't think it's all just capital indoctrinating us).

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don't think this is 100% the case. I think the average American doesn't give a shit about foreign policy, so they get what they're supposed to believe from the natsec ghouls on the TV. They're all liberal hawks who despise Biden's decision to withdraw, so it's easy to manufacture consent about it.

      I think the average American does have pretty reactionary views in general, but your average Joe couldn't even locate Afghanistan on a map of the Middle East. They just watched CNN, saw the people dropping off of planes, and thought "this is bad, so Biden bad. Disapprove in poll."

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      what extent us normal, working class Americans share in the blame for the evil our country has wrecked abroad. (Hint: I don’t think it’s all just capital indoctrinating us).

      Do it!