Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America?

• DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yo, I have no idea. I’m starting to believe that a lot of these anti-American accounts are Russian trolls. They’re so unnecessarily antagonizing and hypocritical. Of all political entities in the world to criticize someone else… Europe? EUROPE? Let’s take a look at the hypocrisy.

  The US is racist!

  • Hmmm, I wonder who even came up with the idea of races?

  The US had slavery!

  • Umm, who started that slavery?
  • Who captured and enslaved the Africans?
  • Who brought them over and sold them across all of the Americas?

  The US supports the genocide of Palestine!

  • Ok, who gave that land to Zionists and why? What was the reason, hmm? And why Palestinian land??

  The US spends too much on military and not enough on social welfare!

  • Yeah, who’s going to save those fantastic EU welfare programs from Putin?
  • Btw, where are European countries buying their fancy high-tech military equipment from?
  • Who built those F-16s that European countries donated to Ukraine?
  • Why doesn’t the EU build its own military-industrial complex then?

  The US invaded Iraq!

  • Who drew up the lines of the Middle East to ensure permanent conflict?
  • Did someone forget Polend?

  The US is belligerent!

  • Odd, because I don’t think they started WWI nor WWII. Who was it?

  The US dropped atomic bombs!

  • Crazy, but what was Europe doing instead of sending troops to invade Japan?

  The US has terrible healthcare!

  • Interesting. Who is the leading researcher in medical interventions?
  • Who subsidizes the world’s medications research and development so the rest of the world can brag about buying that shit wholesale and using generics a few years behind?

  The US thinks too highly of itself!

  • Of all the continents, which continent isn’t even a continent?

  The US is too religious!

  • Remind me again, what were the Crusades?
  • And, why did so many Europeans even move to the US to begin with?
  • Can someone point on a map to where the head of Catholic Church is, please?

  As far as I can tell, Europe starts shit and the US is left cleaning up the mess. Then, Europe talks shit about the US for trying to fix the problems it creates while they sit over there basking in the resources they extracted. WTF is that?

  Extra: Texas is stupid for wanting to leave the union!

  • If Texas leaves (it won’t), should we follow the established naming convention and call it Texit?

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the left is way too anti-american these days and I think the right needs to recognize that we aren’t always so star spangled awesome anymore either.

    It’s disingenuous to pretend that America has done nothing good and are nothing but a bunch of fat racist losers or whatever they say.

    But it’s also disingenuous to try and pretend like America is number 1 in everything all the goddamn time.

    Since this is Lemmy I pretty much only ever see people taking huge stinking turds all over America and aggressively so. I’m not normally patriotic in any major way but listening to these people just straight up lie about America constantly starts to get to me at some point.

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