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      This could apply to any number of countries and it’s getting kinda tedious. It’s like a bunch of American teenagers just learned that their history books aren’t telling the whole story and literally cannot stop talking about it. You hit college level history, congratulations, good for you champ.

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          I dare you to read through my profile to see how unique half of what I write is. I post this type of thing all the time because we are WAGE SLAVES to a terrorist empire that makes the nazis look cute and ethical. The ones attacking this type of message are the unoriginal LLM bots. Not saying you in particular.

          edit: I don’t know the exact toll, so lets say the Nazis killed 30 million. You shouldn’t assume that the American empire isn’t worse just because you haven’t learned about whats the US has done. There are active genocides and historic ones they have massively been involved with(or orchestrated). Lot’s of wars without valid cause, and economic murder.

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            Not only is that statement extremely hyperbolic, it’s deeply offensive to victims of the Nazis

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              We have a current blockade, sanctions and war against Yemen to prevent their oil sales, which are at Saudi Arabian levels of “easy to extract and mass sell”. The US war fleet that was parked out there(don’t know if it still is) was preventing them physically from exporting oil to buy food. This is one small example of the active genocides the US is leading or has led. They had involvement in the Indonesian genocide, Cambodian genocide and I really cant be bothered citing more.

              Sanctions in general impoverish and kill many. They are a type of light economic mass murder.

              Just the covid deaths from conservative leadership adds to the death toll of capitalism under the American empire.

              FYI I’m against China and Russia too, but I realise I’m being deceived heavily and can only hold superficial views.

              Edit: I didn’t address it. I have more respect to the victims of Nazis than you can comprehend. I don’t think what Nazis did is little, I think what we actively do and did, is MUCH WORSE.

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        I had to check too cause “americabadamirite” complaints are basically peak Reddit since the Digg migration and shortly after.

        Before then, I feel like I remember it being a lot less defensive about people daring to…criticize America

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      There’s a huge difference between “lol le dum fat burger chez merica” and commentary about the history of the country and the patterns, systems, and dark truths that made it what it is today. Is there any one element in this meme that you’d argue is false?

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        War we are pretty bad at it. Like the last time we actually tried we nuked Japan twice. We couldn’t even take over Vietnam since Nixon had a hardon for mao and didn’t want to make him angry. Or that time the un told us not to make an irradiated cobalt dmz in Korea so we ended up with whatever the fuck is going on now.

        We are also pretty bad capitalists, unless chronyism is capitalism?

        We are also pretty bad at genocides unless we are dragging up stuff from over 100 years ago?

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          Also, we learned about the genocide of the natives in high school, and this topic is written about extensively by American academics, and I can order books about it freely. Meanwhile, the world’s autocrats build entire generations around denying fundamental history until they’ve twisted themselves in such circles that they need to censore entire portions of the internet to keep up the charade.

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            Iraq and Afghanistan… first gulf war Iraq fucked around and found out… Second time the USA got angry and then kind of forgot what was going on for a decade. We are pretty bad at the occupy and imperialism thing.

            Afghanistan was dumb the USA could of genocided the people but spent trillions trying to spread liberal democratic ideas to people who didn’t care. I guess that’s imperialism?

            Real imperialists would still be occupying them and purged the population not wasted trillions of dollars to try to make them more liberal then left…