doglks 5 points6 points 1 year ago

I mean it's true? Genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, oppressive foreign policy, propping up far right dictatorships, drone strikes, spying on citizens foreign and domestic, MOVE bombings, police shootings, Tuskegee Experiment, economic inequality, money in politics... I honestly can't think of a single era in US history where the country and it's government weren't fucked.

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doglks 2 points3 points 1 year ago

I'm allowed to recognize that I have a better quality of life than a lot of the world and still criticize our government.

doglks 3 points4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a lot of those places have a worse quality of life specifically BECAUSE of the US.

agnus_luciferi 0 points1 point 1 year ago

He's specifically referring to the atrocities committed by the US by calling it trash, not saying it's a bad place to live. Obviously the US is a great place to live, nobody thinks that isn't true. But it's a great place to live because it has exploited, genocided, enslaved, and violently put down other peoples and countries.