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Mullin says livestreaming Hasan execution is part of ‘restoring American values’ (thehill.com)
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[–] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

I would be if I believed the American societal project was promising and worth saving, and I fled the country because I preferred my and my family's own comfort and safety over putting in the effort to do my part and turn the country around.

But there's nothing good in America. There's nothing worth saving. It's a nation of imbeciles, racists and crass transactional individualists. The culture it spreads around the world is nauseating.

Not everybody in America is like that individually of course, but there's enough of them that the nation as a whole is like that. I want no part of it, and I feel no duty towards it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    Insane take to say there is nothing worth saving. That kind of nihilism is why we rarely get more than 50% of people to vote. Running from country to country as the world slowly defends into fascism is just cowardice, if you actually cared, there are lots of things you can do to make a change for the people around you. But if you just run whenever things get rough you'll eventually figure out that all systems require the active participation of good people to keep them from falling to facism/ bad people.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Yet you are posting on reddit probably have a computer what phone do you use? And use the internet. Yep nothing worth saving.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Germany made trains run on time, invented the freeway, magnetic tape bias, democratized the radio, invented the jet engine during the Third Reich, yet none of the Third Reich was worth saving.

    Just because a terrible country invents useful things doesn't mean it's worth keeping around.

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