i've been having some convos with for lack of better words, normies more recently again and i've had a string of people just have NO IDEA how many countries the US has either overthrown, attempted to overthrow or have influenced in some way. Usually it all starts from explaining how the US is inherently a very right wing country and always has been. i've talked to a lot of different people about shit kinda like this for years and it's kinda wearing me down how little anyone knows anything about so much shit the evil empire has done. like i actually feel like the Charlie Day always sunny conspiracy board meme sometimes just carrying on a conversation, referencing some events or whatever. idk if anyone else feels this way sometimes, i just felt like venting a bit cause it made me feel actually bad in a way that i especially didn't like and felt like, i guess, alone??
Had this happen just the other day. Was talking to a coworker who's right in step with me on a lot of things, and probably to the left of me on prison abolition specifically. We get talking about Mao somehow and I say he was pretty cool. The response is along the lines of "I can't get past millions killed and the Uyghurs."
I think it really is about emphasis :citations-needed: . Unless you purposefully seek it out or stumble upon someone who will serve it up for you, most people just hear nothing else about Bad Countries other than lines like that. I brought up a few things to push back and he seemed decently receptive to them -- it was just the first time hearing that and he'll go on to hear "bazillions dead" a hundred more times.