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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless you’re American, I’m not talking to you. I was just commenting on the whole “they’ll be back and respected” thing.

  I was replying that me, and many like me, will never again have respect for America. As a nation they are dead to us. A century of good will and allyship was pissed down the drain in two years and Americans celebrated it.

  Fuck that and fuck them.

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  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you’re going to ignore all the people who actively are fighting against it and victims of it, and lump everyone into a monolith because that’s what you’ve been told.

    I guess it is simpler to throw out nuance and just kinda be a bigot, but it’s not really in line with reality.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Way too late to be “fighting against it” when 2/3rds of your voting population allowed this to happen in the first place.

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      • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So the sins of some are on the shoulders of all? There’s some Inuit corpses under some schools you might want to take care of then.

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      • Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So you don’t support fighting against Trump then? If it’s too late then why are you mad at Americans for not doing enough? Make up your mind

        That last 1/3 is really scared and you are making no effort to recognize or understand those people.

        This is how people talk before they start to commit genocide and kill people for having been born in a country. Up to you if you wanna support actual individual people or just blind nationalism, eh?

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      • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think the general breakdown is: one-third voted for trump, one-third voted for harris and the last third just couldn’t be fucking bothered to participate. It’s that last group I save my biggest disdain for.

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mild critique, there is no “American nation,” there are settler-colonists that do not form a nation, colonized indigenous groups, and semi-colonies of formerly enslaved peoples.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair enough. Just remember, at least one hundred million americans agree with you. It’s a bit unfair of you to paint everything the same colour. Fuck the usa regime and fuck lil’ trumpie though.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s just hard for me and other citizens Internationally to care. We’re not involved. We’re not Americans. And yet we still take the brunt of your country’s decisions. My gas is the highest it’s been in a decade. My groceries are up. Everything is more expensive and it all kicked off last year with Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, his illegal wars in Venezuela and Iran, and his own tearing up of CUSMA which he fucking created himself 4 years ago after ripping up NAFTA.

      So spare me.

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      • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Preach, fuck Americans. Celebrating the 4th during one of the most corrupt administrations in the history of earth. Americans have nothing to celebrate for.

        Here’s a fun read

        www.whitehouse.gov/walk-of-fame/

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  • yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pour one out for international solidarity ig

    Under global capitalism, ofc there’s gonna be a brutal top dawg, that’s the name of the game, and yes, American capital has been unimagineably violent. But not without an inner circle that gets a dash of the spoils, too. That’s what that other guy was saying. Nations that have good trade deals with the US, simply materially benefit from the exploitation of the global south.

    We’re on a knife edge, of capital being threatened with a crisis it doesn’t really know how to get itself out of. Not without violence and repression, at least. These moments are also windows of opportunity, when capital shows its face, as a genocidal engine. Don’t do their work for them, sheesh.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pour one out for international solidarity ig

      Y’all pissed that away with your attempts to annex two foreign nations who were allies to you.

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      • yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you think all Germans should’ve been genocided because of the Nazi’s actions?

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