I can’t really speak to other countries but from my understanding the entire world is varying degrees of fascism at this point.

The US is exceptional, just not in the way most people think. No nation comes close to the suffering the US has caused and will cause in the future.

You can see parallels to modern US imperialism like with Britain costing countless lives in places like India. Also, a little further in the past with the Spanish treatment of Native Americans which the US then repeated.

We of course have the privilege of looking at this through a modern lense. What really strikes me is the level of enlightenment in Europe in regards to native rights and the practice of slavery before the US was formed.

It is clear that people knew better at this point and this shows the malfeasance that defines America. The people that went on to found America knew better than to do what they did. This animus against humans is what makes people in the US arguably unique. A kind of modern day barbarian if you will bringing back what was supposed to be lost.

The heart of the US is a republic founded on deception, terrorism, greed, and murder. Even our first President was a murderous land baron well on his way to becoming the world’s first billionaire adjusted for inflation.

I think your point centers around if anyone else would have done it the way these depraved manipulators did. I really don’t think so. The ruling class of the US are really in a league of their own.

Exceptionally depraved, cruel, and greedy amongst their peers around the world with near limitless resources at their finger tips. Imagine any single European country having access to the empty landmass that is the United States.

This is the real reason behind the myth of American Exceptionalism. It is like having near limitless wealth compared to everyone else who has a fixed income. The US is the equivalent of a trust fund baby. A psychotic mass murdering nepo baby that spread its shit all over the world.

Remember all that land, well you see it wasn’t really empty. Que the first genocide which the US still carries out to this day with boarding schools. There was of course plenty of room for the Native Americans and the whites to coexist. Hell, most of the US is still pretty damned empty to this day.

It was never even about the land. It was about a desire for systematic extermination. This ties in with your point about chimpanzees and also back to your original point that anyone else would have done the same thing.

Have you ever heard of the bonobos? They are another Chimpanzee that doesn’t fight and kill each other. If a male gets too aggressive the females hold him down and have sex with him until he chills.

Openly manipulating markets and now betting sites for personal gain. They have already embezzled billions. Crypto scams up the wazzo.

The grift knows no end.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Cool, now we can add global extortion to cryptocurrency benefits.

They will allow more logging for sure, but their real goal is transferring it to the state and then the states will give it to wealthy people to “develop”.

In the US medical costs would bankrupt you if you don’t have insurance.

Even having insurance is no guarantee.

Cool, now other countries can steal China’s IP and thus the circle of knowledge continues on.

Horrible for children but good for adults. Who are we kidding.

Correction: Telsa’s regulatory capture has lead to a stagnant market.

Solution: Allow Chinese EVs into the market.

The US government has done so much to make people not want to have children it isn’t funny.

Everything from the War on Drugs to the gutting of the middle class has lead to this drop. Lack of affordable healthcare and sub par and overly expensive education adds to this problem as well.

Not to mention environmental things like poisoning every human being on Earth with forever chemicals and plastics. They have truly created a world where you would be crazy to want to create new human beings in.

Now with AI and robotics we are poised to eliminate a lot of manual labor and human thinking. Where does having lots of children fit into this equation?

This is great advice for Lemmy.

I like what you have to say, but I will be honest. Hate radio is what started this journey for me back in the 1980s and there was no mythical time you could have a polite conversation in the US about politics. The whole politics ruining Thanksgiving has been going on since the Vietnam War and the concept probably dates back to before the Revolutionary War in the US.

Before Vietnam the US literally purged everyone that was too left with McCarthyism. Before engagement algorithms there was constant propaganda on all TV channels, radio, and print designed to do everything from break up unions to reinforce the Christian Nationalist movement. Think adding In God We Trust to all money in 1955.

I see where you are coming from as I was once there long ago. When you unravel the propaganda/lies you begin to see the bigger picture and understand why the forces that control us work so hard to misinform and create an alternative reality where America is the good guy.

The reckoning of what the US has done and continues to do is truly insurmountable for a typical human being. Mutual understanding easily becomes a tool of oppression where we are expected to forget all of history and culture to compromise with people who are selfish and misinformed.

You can give someone who wants to destroy you all the respect in the world and it won’t change that they want to destroy you and will given the chance. This is the reality we face and harkening back to an imagined time of mutual respect is not the panacea we would like to think it is.

Oh, I thought you were implying that. Sorry for misinterpreting it.

Oh gosh one person severely injured, that is horrible. I am truly sorry for their suffering as no one deserves treatment like that.

On the other hand there have been a verifiable 172,000 Palestinian injuries with over 72,000 estimated deaths.

The government knew full well what they were doing and anyone defending it should be ashamed to defend this abuse of human rights. There is no doubt in my mind about this because it is a verifiable pattern.

Just like UKs support of Israel.

Thanks grammar Nazi!

Yeah I am not sure that is accurate to say people were only protesting the act of it being banned. I am sure the majority also supports ending the genocide that the UK refuses to designate as such.

When you can excuse human rights abuses it is all pretty much moot anyways.

Why was it designated a terrorist group. Who have they killed and what crimes against civilians have they committed?

I am being rhetorical of course and besides it has already been determined unlawful.

It is clear they attempted to illegally suppress human rights in support of Isreal.

This is bad guys, the whole reason 1/3 of Americans are charged with crimes is to disenfranchise them. If these minorities… Oops, I mean criminals get exonerated and interfere with the genocide… Oops I mean the law it could bring the whole White Nationalist System down!

The only worse than the US is this analysis.

Just kidding the US is worse.

They literally arrest you for supporting Palestine in the UK.