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sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks agoI’m also American. yes we are to blame for the actions of our country because our country was founded on the principle that we would get a say in what it does no matter what. We even have a hierarchy of rights to protect our ability to take responsibility for our country’s actions. From our right to free speech that protects our ability to protest, to our right to vote which protects our right to choose (in theory), to our right to own guns which allows us to protect the first two rights (when we don’t let anyone limit 2a), to our right to be educated enough to exercise all the previous rights.
When things have gone as wrong as they have, sure there are bad actors involved but at some point we fucked up and that’s on us. There will always be bad actors and we gotta be more responsible than just letting it go saying "well I didn’t have a choice ". Our failures affect the whole world.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Eh, there are some pretty good arguments against that being the case, but even if it were, that principle hasn’t really been in effect since before most of the people on Lemmy were even born.
I think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for improving the system if we don’t like the way it currently works. But I don’t think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for the actions of the system, if the system was stood up before we had any way to influence it.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
My dude we severed ourselves from an empire over the literal phrase “no taxation without representation”. that’s what it means. and yeah, back then we only meant white people and now we only mean people with money but the tools to effect change are right here. we built them into our national identity. if you really don’t see it, I encourage you to look harder. seek communities of like-minded potential voters or capital stormers.
we’re all connected and effect the system we live in small ways that add up. you may disavow your contribution but that in itself is a decision that effects everything. our parents pretending otherwise is why it got like this. us continuing to do so is causing the next genocide.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My dude you can’t just gloss over the “we only meant white people” bit in an effort to support your claim that the system was set up to accept everyone’s input from the beginning lmao.
Feel how you wanna feel, but you won’t make me feel guilty for the outcomes of a system I had no hand in setting up.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Look if we benefit from living in this country, which we do don’t be ignorant, then we also have a responsibility to help make the world less shitty using whichever priveledges we can.
don’t pretend what I’m doing here is trying to make you feel bad, you obviously feel too bad to even try do except look out for you. what I’m trying to do here is make someone reading this give a fuck. hopefully they will care more about our home than you do.