This is implying if American government just disappeared tomorrow a not so insignificant portion of the population wouldn't immediately elect and recreate the very systems that caused the whats going on to resurface.
More seriously I can't hold both the position that the US government is irredeemably untethered from the will and interests of its people and US citizens are the most propagandised people on earth and that most everyone in the US is irredeemable. So I believe that anyone born in the US probably has a harder time cultivating empathy and reasonable opinions than the rest of us but with re-education and a change in material conditions would probably be perfectly fine people living fine lives and not hurting anyone more than anyone else, and the average US citizen can't really be held accountable for the actions of the US state.
I mean, the US government is like, 10,000 people who can reasonably said to be significantly influenced by another 100,000 people.
You can't both hold that the US State is a dictatorship of the bourgeois that acts for capital regardless of and against the will and interest of its citizens and that all/a majority of US citizens are irredeemable and responsible for the actions of the US state.
I find it hilarious and extremely ironic that the whole concept of US Exceptionalism is in and of it's self US Exceptionalism.
Exceptionalism of that sort isn't unique to the US or even to this time period. The Romans did it, the Athenians did it, the Chinese Empire did it, Catholics, Protestants and the European colonial members of the Vienna Conclave did it. Almost everyone with a strong us and them narrative has something similar.
Thinking Americans thinking americans are special is specific to america is, hilariously, a result of americans thinking americans are special.
I think the please Xi send the nukes/let's sink England beneath the waves style bits started off as ironically mocking the sort of conservative commentator who responds to hearing about the latest islamophobic consent manufacturing by saying we need to glass the middle east, but like any bit that goes on long enough, the irony slowly drained away and we were left with something that was arguably reactionary and if not then at the very least defeatist.
I wrote a longer thing about it here if anyone's interested.
But not to Americans.
This story made me sad and I don't like to be sad so I don't want things like this to happen ever again.
This is implying if American government just disappeared tomorrow a not so insignificant portion of the population wouldn't immediately elect and recreate the very systems that caused the whats going on to resurface.
But don't worry it won't be called America?
I hate the government not the people 😤
More seriously I can't hold both the position that the US government is irredeemably untethered from the will and interests of its people and US citizens are the most propagandised people on earth and that most everyone in the US is irredeemable. So I believe that anyone born in the US probably has a harder time cultivating empathy and reasonable opinions than the rest of us but with re-education and a change in material conditions would probably be perfectly fine people living fine lives and not hurting anyone more than anyone else, and the average US citizen can't really be held accountable for the actions of the US state.
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you cannot do this, this is literally fucking so dumb... the government is the people.
I mean, the US government is like, 10,000 people who can reasonably said to be significantly influenced by another 100,000 people.
You can't both hold that the US State is a dictatorship of the bourgeois that acts for capital regardless of and against the will and interest of its citizens and that all/a majority of US citizens are irredeemable and responsible for the actions of the US state.
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:10000-com:
Not prioritizing the lives and comfort of US citizens over literally everyone else on the planet: Anti-imperialism, cool and good
Actively wishing death on each and every individual privileged? enough to have been born in the imperial core: not what we're about.
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They obviously would.
Part of American exceptionalism is thinking these structures are both essential and good.
I find it hilarious and extremely ironic that the whole concept of US Exceptionalism is in and of it's self US Exceptionalism.
Exceptionalism of that sort isn't unique to the US or even to this time period. The Romans did it, the Athenians did it, the Chinese Empire did it, Catholics, Protestants and the European colonial members of the Vienna Conclave did it. Almost everyone with a strong us and them narrative has something similar.
Thinking Americans thinking americans are special is specific to america is, hilariously, a result of americans thinking americans are special.
That's pretty special indeed though
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I think it's funny because it's the only disaster we can joke about that doesn't feel imminently plausible.
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I think the please Xi send the nukes/let's sink England beneath the waves style bits started off as ironically mocking the sort of conservative commentator who responds to hearing about the latest islamophobic consent manufacturing by saying we need to glass the middle east, but like any bit that goes on long enough, the irony slowly drained away and we were left with something that was arguably reactionary and if not then at the very least defeatist.
I wrote a longer thing about it here if anyone's interested.
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Wild to me how this can be downvoted lmaooooo