Americans are the only people in the world that thought that America was the leaders of the free world
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Facts, even Europeans citizens were aware America was just the new imperialist throwing it's dong around
Yeah no shit.
Hey is African American portrayed Captain America still in theatres? Lololololol ya fucking Nazis.
Pssst... Here's a little secret... It never was.
Exactly. It blows my mind just how narcissistic and delusional a country could be. Half the world already hated them before the Tangerine Turd took over. And for good reason.
After we polluted the rest of the world for our trinkets.
I still don't understand how these people are not being held accountable. As a veteran, it makes me feel discraced I even bought into the propaganda.
Granted, this was pre-internet. It was much easier to brainwash people then.
Wouldn't it be easier now with the ease of online manipulation?
Both yes and no. If you fall into an algorithmic rabbit hole, you might never see the truth- they’ll just throw bullshit at you to keep you engaged. This is being abused at an alarming rate to metaphorically zombify people into angry little brownshirts.
On the other hand, we can witness the atrocities in Palestine; we can see the mobs of settlers beating people out of their homes, we can see videos of indiscriminate collective punishment via weapons of mass destruction, and we can see the shitposting IDF soldiers do on social media bragging about the rape and violence they did today. We can watch Trump lie and get fact checked in real time, or witness them try to sanewash the insanity we just witnessed live.
That's always been "free" as in "market".
Then why can’t I buy a BYD car in the US? Why can’t a concert venue sell tickets without paying protection money to LiveNation? Why can’t all merchants transparently display and pass through all the fees that Visa, MasterCard etc. charge them? I could go on all day, the USA is not a free market.
I could go on all day, the USA is not a free market.
I should have said "free as in predator".
In theory the capitalist "free market" was supposed to mean that customers are free to choose, it was supposed to be a better alternative to the monopolies of mercantilism.
Murica rolled over with a whimper!
It's over. Hulk Hogan has ceased to be the world's best chess player
If we tried to be smart instead of "great"... or even good (kind to people)...
It's not about our decline, it about the russians we helped along the way.
And it's about time too.
Article is paywalled. So I'm gonna "keep on rockin' in the free world."
In other news... water is wet
White supremacist colonizer take.