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I think what’s pissing me off about the US most right now, is even through the dumpster fire and their idiotic elected leader, Americans are STILL moraizing, looking down on others and being the world police
For the record, we average citizens don't want to be the "world police". This is what President Eisenhower was referring to as the "Military Industrial Complex".
Nobody else appointed the US as "world police".
It's a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.
The young left has become the world moral police and it has nothing to do with the military, right wing uses the military. The young left is just using shit slinging. But Americans need to get to the back of the line when it comes to moralizing or leading global issues, the rest of the world doesn’t want to hear it from Americans
I don't understand anything you just typed. Who's "young left"? The global "young left"? You think only the "right wing" uses the military?
And who should be leading global issues? Europeans? Chinese? Russians? Indians? G8? G20? UN? Who?
Or is it that Americans are the only ones who can't or shouldn't be allowed to "lead" or "moralize"?
Genuinely confused.
Yes, Americans need to shut up, we don’t wanna hear it, fix your damn country before you start criticizing others. You only cheapen a movement by leading out and infecting it with your toxicity.
It’s hard to explain who the “left” is in the US right now because you all think the left means just you and your group of friends. You are all punching left and fighting each other while the right is united and you guys let them win. You’re all so weird and you can’t see it from the inside, but the rest of us around the world don’t want to hear your opinion anymore
Opinion on what? Your country? The world? Geopolitics? What Americans are moralizing about anything to you? And about what? The young left? Who is the American version of Greta Thunberg?
I moved to the Netherlands from the US in '22 out of necessity due to my Dutch wife's medical diagnosis. I'm not here for the fun of it. Furthermore, I've been to 12 countries in total and I speak four languages, 2 of them fluently.
I've noticed something.
Every rural shit-heel out here in the Dutch countryside complaining about Moroccans and Turks sounds like a typical MAGA pussy to me. This breed of mouth breather has an iteration specific to every country I've been in. I'm sure I'll find versions in Japan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Angola, Paraguay, and everywhere else someone says "god damned
<insertEthnicSlurHere>
, breathing up all our air."So don't preach to me how fucking "enlightened" the rest of the world is when the conservative puritanical nationalism that is in every conservative talking point globally got its birth right here in this part of the fucking world (Europe) before the United States even existed.
I don't know where you're from but this tide of authoritarianism is global. The United States is a dumpster fire politically. But that fire did not start there and it's clearly not the only trash receptacle burning right now.