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Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 15 hours agoAside from nuclear weapons you are describing practically every nation state since ever, especially post Industrial Revolution. To the point that the argument is useless. The US is just as bad as Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch, the history of the Russian empire, the current state of lots of African counties etc etc!
No one anywhere near this thread is advocating for those thing so what are you getting at other than ghosts? Sooo…
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
As a Brit I say that it doesn’t make it ok that my country did shit things cause another did, I also like at our current behaviour. We are both still doing bad, shitty things.
USA rebuilt Japan to stop communism.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Nothing makes the past okay. Citing the past nihilistically only makes the future worse.
Your opinion of why the US did anything only serves to discredit why they actually did anything or the net benefit regardless of intent.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
You’ve been a shitty country in the past and you’re a shitty country now. What are you trying to achieve by saying other countries do bad things too?
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Simple if you choose to cite rando shit from centuries ago you’re not actually engaging.
It’s called low hanging fruit and apparently it’s the best you got. Take it up with the Dutch? I mean they raped the Congo… are you okay with rape? You never mentioned them in your recount of history.
Fact is the US fucking sucks because of current shit aka republicans. Blanket statements and blandly waving hands towards the past few centuries doesn’t help at all.