• distal@lemmy.ml
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    The US was a mistake. So much about the country is hideous and vain. I genuinely instinctively trust people from Canada and Mexico more because I’ve had genuinely terrible interactions with US Americans on pretty regular basis. What people say about Israeli tourists holds true for Americans as well, the world has been forced to accept what the US has done to other places as morally good somehow.

    This era is ending and I say to hell with the devil that is the American state

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      Friend, I can’t say I disagree with you. But please don’t let a relatively small percentage of people skew your thoughts of all of us. I don’t think all Israelis are evil, just like I don’t think all Canadians are nice. I know there’s little that I personally can do to sway your mind. Just know that some of us are trying to right the ship and still trying to be good.

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        All is an exaggeration but a vast majority isn’t when you talk about Israel. It’s basically actual demons with body counts, the loud but scared ones who support them, the shy ones who support them tacitly and then a minority (usually religious Jews, so basically actual Jews) who oppose Israel because they know it’s a hellish creation. And those get beat up by the cops and arrested all the time. There’s way more diversity in America so I think it’s not as bad as Israel, ofc, but don’t forget they’re both Western bloodthirsty settler colonies that commited genocide so they could install themselves in these foreign lands…

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        21 hours ago

        I am sorry, I am an outsider, I believe it needs to be said very clearly what the US has been doing. It’s the most obvious thing, and for its obviousness it doesn’t get talked about at all because all fundamental critique is blended into constructive criticism that’s meant to improve and prolong the system instead of abolish it.

        Yes, not all Israelis are “bad”, but most Israelis support the expansionist projects, just like most Americans have a very screwed up sense of nationalism, even some of the leftists (who’ll believe in the supposed forwardness of both the American revolution and the genocidal campaign that was manifest destiny.) I don’t “hate” US Americans, I simply am frustrated with the bullshit.

        The US has such an odd social structure and a dependence on cheap imports. You wouldn’t be remissed to call it the landlord of the world because that is evident even in the behaviour of the slightly better off to well off US Americans who are able to travel the world.