I can't really place one definitive moment, deeply hating this country has been a gradual process of intensification pushed forward by learning things like this. And I'm not sure I'm numb yet, thankfully, it still upsets me. But when I learned a couple years ago that the Nazis took direct inspiration from American colonialism and racism, and the reality that there is no substantive difference between Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum really set in... I think that's when I could never look back, when I not just learned but mentally confronted the reality of centuries of extermination. When my country is built on a Holocaust that is not remembered, not understood in its gravity, I don't need to know any more to know it is irredeemably monstrous.
A deep part of me wants to believe in the American people of the 21st century not being irredeemable, that when the United States dies, something positive could come out of here one day. If events to come make me lose that belief, then I'll be numb. Truly, fully numb.
Good point. It's examples like that which give me some hope; terrible circumstances can give way to better futures. And the fact that the US comparatively has way more intractable domestic issues and destitute people than the EU for instance, makes me think that of all the imperial core countries, the US has the highest likelihood of a revolutionary situation. The hard task is building the movement to take advantage of the chaos under heaven.
It starts with teaching people to aim their grievances at the class war rather than seeking racist scapegoats. Motivation is useless without an apt target.
I think my disgust is total, but I'm not numb. You can draw a straight line from slavery to the trail of tears to operation paperclip to Korea and SE Asia to the cold War nonsense in LATAM to the horrors perpetrated on the Middle East the past 20 years. The US is pure evil. I have this bubbling rage in me that never really goes away. I'll never do any lone wolf stuff because it's counter-productive but damn I'd love to see the people pulling the strings absolutely destroyed.
Same, friend. And on adventurism, I always try to remember that it is harder to live for something than die for something. Going nuts and lashing out uselessly against a world that feels hopeless is what the bourgeoisie want, living committedly against it is what they fear.
I can't really place one definitive moment, deeply hating this country has been a gradual process of intensification pushed forward by learning things like this. And I'm not sure I'm numb yet, thankfully, it still upsets me. But when I learned a couple years ago that the Nazis took direct inspiration from American colonialism and racism, and the reality that there is no substantive difference between Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum really set in... I think that's when I could never look back, when I not just learned but mentally confronted the reality of centuries of extermination. When my country is built on a Holocaust that is not remembered, not understood in its gravity, I don't need to know any more to know it is irredeemably monstrous.
A deep part of me wants to believe in the American people of the 21st century not being irredeemable, that when the United States dies, something positive could come out of here one day. If events to come make me lose that belief, then I'll be numb. Truly, fully numb.
Keep in mind the DDR was beautiful, and it rose from the ruins of the Third Reich
Good point. It's examples like that which give me some hope; terrible circumstances can give way to better futures. And the fact that the US comparatively has way more intractable domestic issues and destitute people than the EU for instance, makes me think that of all the imperial core countries, the US has the highest likelihood of a revolutionary situation. The hard task is building the movement to take advantage of the chaos under heaven.
It starts with teaching people to aim their grievances at the class war rather than seeking racist scapegoats. Motivation is useless without an apt target.
Agreed
I think my disgust is total, but I'm not numb. You can draw a straight line from slavery to the trail of tears to operation paperclip to Korea and SE Asia to the cold War nonsense in LATAM to the horrors perpetrated on the Middle East the past 20 years. The US is pure evil. I have this bubbling rage in me that never really goes away. I'll never do any lone wolf stuff because it's counter-productive but damn I'd love to see the people pulling the strings absolutely destroyed.
Same, friend. And on adventurism, I always try to remember that it is harder to live for something than die for something. Going nuts and lashing out uselessly against a world that feels hopeless is what the bourgeoisie want, living committedly against it is what they fear.
edit: misgendered term
When the US balkanize, it's gonna be grimm for y'all