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myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I don’t think this is only true for your nation. I mean, I’m from Belgium, not only did this nation massacre a lot of people, it also provided the uranium for the Manhattan Project and the ensuing Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima.

It’s not (per se) nations that get the worst out of us, it’s the power structures behind that nation.

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vala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Europeans are always like “we’re bad too”. When your country has probably done what like 1, maybe 2 large scale war crimes. Let us have this one /s

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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
No, I’m sure. But we seem like we’re on some accelerated timeline or something. Gotta be awful quickly.

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- Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  To the point of the one above you, Belgium is technically younger than the United States.
  
  But honestly, the only reason we really know how messed up a lot of these things are, is because of people digging into these things and finding out that power corrupts. We need transparency, integrity and honesty if we are to get to a point where we don’t read the news with existential dread.
  
  I think most of governing at this point is cleaning up messes from before and creating new messes along the way because we are incapable of solving problems sustainably.
  
  Take immigration, which has become a widespread issue all throughout the west. Rather than figuring out how to stop people from wanting to run away to our countries, we prefer to exile these people, separate them from our society and, if at all possible, just make them not come into our countries at all. I’m not saying there’s a simple solution, I’m just saying we are so focused on combating symptoms, we completely ignore the actual cause of issues.
  
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  - MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Transparency is always the answer. Any changes which increase secrecy or decrease accountability are the opposite of progress.
    
    Rather than figuring out how to stop people from wanting to run away to our countries, we prefer to exile these people, separate them from our society and, if at all possible, just make them not come into our countries at all.
    
    Carrot and stick. Some people only understand hoarding their carrots and beating anyone within reach with their sticks.
    
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