The US is now the enemy of the west
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They let themselves go too much
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Nice acronym
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I mean, yeah? They are literally talking about invading former allies.
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No need for whataboutism when discussing the imperial tendencies and supremacy in the west.
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Thank you!
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Despite all the noise around this, I find it strange how little we seem to be taking this seriously, like they're the ramblings of a confused old man rather than threats made by the president of the United States...
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The who?
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Same feeling 8 years ago, honestly.
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not a whataboutism
imagine if we named the West, the guys with guns. The other guys have guns too so it's not a great name. That's not a whataboutism lol
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Not willingly. This is a core tenet of meoliberalism.
Japan has blurred porn because of the US. Any laws Japan has made that US citizens have to follow? Nope. How many Japanese military bases exist in America. 0.
They do not have an equal seat at the table.
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I understand what you're saying but how many Japanese military bases exist on US soil?
It's not an equal seat
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I don't think that's a reasonable metric. Germany and the UK wouldn't be considered influential either, and yet they are.
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What is this, 2010?
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Because if ya ain't white, you can't be free!
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Canadian here, I feel the exact same way... like why is no one taking a firm stand against this guy!
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Likely referring to the millions of people who are subjected to forced prison labor either without pay or for less than $1 an hour by for-profit prisons. This system has direct historical roots in the chattel slave economy, and even served as a direct drop-in replacement for chattel slaves on the very same plantations after the 13th amendment prohibited slavery except as punishment for a crime.
To this day the profit motive creates a perverse incentive for the owners of for-profit prisons to fight against efforts to reduce recidivism, since recidivism is good for their business. Our prison system serves not to rehabilitate, or even to punish, but rather to exploit the waiver of prisoners' rights that is enshrined in our constitution for profit.
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Ahh yeah, because people in China aren’t free, they’re all slaves. Same with Russia. And all of the Middle East.
Westerners just have for the lowest wages their companies will pay them because if they don’t they’ll become destitute. Certainly not coercive.
Hey yo, isn’t there a little exception in our “abolishing of slavery”? I wonder why we have such a large percentage of prisoners here in America, compared to the rest of the world.
Ever heard of prisoner leasing?
Free world my ass.
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Yeah, it's not new. Eventually, this shit has to become so pressing and obvious people realise history isn't over, and history isn't over here, but the normalcy bias has proven strong beyond belief.
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They actually own a pretty small fraction of the total stuff.
I mean, obviously it's grotesquely large proportionately, but they amount to <2000 individuals in a region of well over a billion.
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There's stops between free and enslaved. Seeing as we're talking about kicking the US out, I think I'll stand by it being freer.
