Chapotony Chatano here, internet's busiest hogposter, and it's time for another edition of "Let's Argue", where we're on the internet, we accept your hot takes, unpopular opinions, and tough questions, and we struggle sesh over all of them. Leeeeet's, GO!
I don’t know if I could ever fully trust an American leftist to care about other countries before their own. I feel the level of America-First brainwashing sticks with you, even if you become a leftist. I’ve seen some shit takes from american leftists about foreign policy for sure.
As a third world leftist, idk why I'm on this site sometimes. This is not a hot take, it's a top take and it's fully true. Keep educating them, keep yelling at them to get better etc.
i just like looking at the collapse of the country that turned my parents country into a dictatorship and my country into a lib oligarchy
Yeah I try my best to educate. It’s hard cause American history is very simplistic in general, and I find a lot of Americans struggle with more complex histories (like the Balkans, China, etc.) and what to make of it all.
We are not well versed in geopolitics generally. And when we are, most sources are american centric.
Absolutely true. If you're a US leftist and your first consideration on candidacy if you still care about that is domestic politics then you're blind to the fact that US foreign policy A) matters more and B) will affect vastly more people.
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The amount of 'why should I care about x-country, it doesn't affect me'-takes I've seen on this website is way too damn high.
Even if there might be some truth to that statement, it is emblematic of a typically American disinterest in understanding others. The rest of the world certainly cannot afford to be disinterested in the US.
It's just privilege at it's finest. Or people getting upset to say even American people in poverty will NEVER understand someone in a third world in poverty. Like your need for healthcare really isn't the most important thing in politics.