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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Anytime I talk about these things to folks outside the US, it’s always some reply about “your country chose this!” And how, regardless of how I voted, I still somehow let this happen. It’s super frustrating and disheartening.

The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it "progress", "economic liberalism", and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What's angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they're hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn't, because there's not enough preparation time.

Now, it is the cool thing to be super anti-American.

This isn't news. Different than what americans might think, they're not necessarily looked at as the "big heroes" everywhere. There's a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn't popular, on average, world-wide.

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The US is not the only democracy that is currently endangered. Europe can easily follow suit, South America in some parts as well, as we've seen.

Freedom doesn't come freely, it has to be fought for, hard, time and time again.

[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The hero thing is not a mindset of most Americans. It seems like you're considering everyone in the US is an ignorant conservative. While there is definitely a large group that is very ignorant and naive, there is a different large population that do not live in a fantasy world and understand what their country has done on a world stage.

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this reply is a perfect example. It's a generalization of over 340 million individuals.

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You are a fool.