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[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Perhaps you skimmed over the word “British.”

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

You literally brought up American embassies displaying a divisive symbol of identity politics, designed to anger our allies. Are you really that dishonest that you'd try the switcheroo like that? The whole world despises identity politics. They see what it's done to us and want no part of it.

America has no place lecturing other countries. They resent it and call us bullies. The powerful oppressing the weak. It's bullshit and high time it came to a screeching halt.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

All of Europe is built on identity politics. Asia too. That is why the Germans have a country, the French have another. Identity politics is the reason for your endless wars, The New World countries have generally rejected those backward ways. You can speak whatever language you like, pray as you please and kiss your preferred gender in the New World. That is one reason why we are so much more peaceful and successful.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

OK, are we living on the same planet? You appear to be talking about some Bizarro World, not Earth. The New World? America has always been a violent nation, from our founding genocide to the slave labor that built the country to the arsenal, unprecedented in human history, that maintains our empire. We spend $60 billion a year on pets but won't go to any inconvenience to keep second graders from getting slaughtered. Despite all our competitive parenting and mommy machismo and trophy kids, we don't really give a damn about our children - by which I mean, about one another's. When a race stops caring for its young, its extinction is not only imminent but well deserved.

Again, and yet again, the United States is in a state of arrested development having never matured past the emotional maturity of a seven year-old. The shortsighted, religious based values of this country, starting with its inception, have created a rapidly devolving culture of ignorance and self-hating, self-destruction.

America was exceptional since the very inception, all throughout genociding the America's aboriginals out of existence; through rounding the America's Japanese up into the concentration camps; through advocating euthanasia and funding NSDAP; through centuries of slavery and racial segregation; through countless foreign invasions and instigations of bloodbaths all across the world.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

You will notice America does not have a national race, religion, culture. We do not even have a national dress or cuisine. Anyone can be an American. This is not the case in backward nations like China or Poland. There you can be born there and not be considered a "real" Pole or Chinese.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Did you just completely ignore the genocide and slavery? It's not an elephant in the room, it's a whole herd of elephants. How the fuck do you call others backwards, when you yourselves are backwards religious idiots who ban abortion?

How can you be so racist as to call Chinese, who are POC, backwards? Name anyone they enslaved or genocided. No Jim Crow, no KKK.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Slavery and genocide are rather far in our past. Further we have enough common sense to be ashamed of our ancestors. How long ago was the Great Leap Forward? Good ol' Mr. 70-30.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Ah yes, the Great Leap Forward, which was three years, followed by the American war in Vietnam, which was ten.

As for genocide, the Americans outsourced that one. Now they let others do their dirty work of slaughtering black people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwanda

President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time.

Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene.

It took Hutu death squads three months from April 6 to murder an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and at each stage accurate, detailed reports were reaching Washington's top policymakers.

The documents undermine claims by Mr Clinton and his senior officials that they did not fully appreciate the scale and speed of the killings.

"It's powerful proof that they knew," said Alison des Forges, a Human Rights Watch researcher and authority on the genocide.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You missed Cambodia, where Nixon/Kissinger did not intervene. Yep, the Americans cannot stop the Old World people from trying to establish ethnic states as often as you like. We cannot be the world's policeman. Besides, when we do try to keep the genocidal maniacs of the Old World in their boxes (Korea, Vietnam) people complain too.

Damned when we do. Damned when we don't.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The only winning move is not to play.