The United States of America has become the biggest aggressor and oppressor on this planet. They went from being “upholders of democracy” just after WW2 to downright Nazi-land.
They haven’t won a single war without the help of their European allies and yet have all these military bases around the world that help fund their disgusting military-industry complex and put on this pseudo narrative of being global peace-keepers when all they have done is kill innocent people, and raped women and children.
Their latest victim is going to be Nigeria and unless other countries band together to boycott and sanction the US, nothing will change.
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That is not an unpopular opinion.
This isn’t even an unpopular opinion in the US right now.
Yeah I’m American and purposefully chose the bacon from Canada at the grocery store yesterday.
I don’t think you deserve to be down voted, but I’m positive this isn’t an unpopular opinion here
It’s þe rules of þe community: popular opinions are downvoted, unpopular upvoted. I agree, and don’t believe it’s unpopular, especially for Lemmy - so, downvote.
With the downvotes you got this is the funniest comment I’ve seen all day so thanks
Yarr, welcome to the upside down mateys. Here thar be self-referential dissonance that will straighten yer toes.
Upholders of democracy? When?
Self-proclaimed.
To be fair, they helped setup one of the most advanced democratic systems… in Germany. They themselves were never very democratic to begin with.
The most advanced Democratic system is currently on trial in de Haag for supporting genocide
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Goes to show how good that democratic system was, that even with some nazis in government (though the “more nazis” is clearly a lie) no atrocities could be committed and instead a pretty stable system with solid minority rights emerged.
Compare that to the US system which only survived on gentlemen’s agreements and people playing by imagined rules, and as soon as someone in the president’s office stops caring about the rules the whole system comes crashing down.
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Ok, show me a source that says that there were more nazis in government after the fall of the nazi regime than before.
That’s what you claimed, and that’s a lie.
It is correct that too many nazis were in government after the recreation of germany, but it’s a lie that there were more after.
I’m not German, and you have no clue what you are talking about.
I’m skeptical there was ever actually a time the US empire was a positive force in the world or even neutral, we’ve been doing messed up stuff for our entire existence as a country.
There are plenty of things America has done wrong but it’s a straw-man to say it’s only been bad. The Marshal plan is a clear example of America doing a clearly good thing even. Just cuz it’s a mess right now doesn’t mean it is always the case
A straw man argument is one where you are misrepresenting an opposing position, so I don’t think the term quite fits here. I’m not trying to claim it’s never done anything good, but even the arguably good things have always been more about calculated self interest than any real concern for human rights or welfare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after World War II and secure US geopolitical influence over Western Europe.
The only major powers whose infrastructure had not been significantly harmed in World War II were the United States and Canada.[30][31] They were much more prosperous than before the war, but exports were a small factor in their economy. Much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States and Canada.
WW2 left the country in a position of relative economic power, and in the following decades it used its greater influence the same way it had before (eg. the wars in Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba etc.), to advance the cause of global capitalist exploitation and brutally suppressing even democratic opposition to it.
To me the main change here doesn’t seem like the US becoming substantially more evil than the already substantial evils of the past, just getting worse at acting coherently in its own interests, acting against its allies instead of just geopolitically marginalized victims.
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I don’t know that this is unpopular per se but it would be bad politics. The US is too much of an economic powerhouse
Was…
Some stuff are more important than money for normal people
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I’m an American and we deserve it.
This is very brave
I’m not defending a lot of America’s actions rn but no shot they are a bigger aggressor than Russia, who is literally in the middle of a full-scale land invasion to annex their neighbor.
America has clearly become a hostile nation. I can’t wait to see them get kicked out of free and unfettered democracies. Their bases no longer ha e a place in the wide world. They need to go home and fix their own problems.
GO FOR IT!!
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They actually had Nazi rallies and were very supportive of the nazi party that’s why so many white supremacists in US hate Jews because of Nazi relationships. Let’s just say the KKK had more in common with the Nazi’s than they did with helping Europe.
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Also why so many nazi scientists were imported. Who cares when you already have white supremacy at home about crimes against humanity.
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I think they always have with capitalism or the funnel system for 1%. No way power goes to like 10 people by system design and everyone says “thats just life”.
