• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    USians*

    americans are fine, don’t let usians give us a bad rep.

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    I understand this rhetoric, but one extremely effective way of changing people’s opinions and broadening their world view is travel. Banning people from the US from traveling will only result in more insulation and “othering”.

    That said, American tourists are 👏the 👏worst (I say as an American). We should act like what we are: guests. I’ve had the privilege to travel to five nations that don’t speak English as their native language and have learned my P’s and Q’s every time and it’s always paid off. I speak the language terribly, but I’m at least willing to try.

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      I get where you are coming from, but I think the only way to get through to the goddamned, thick skulled, toddler brained populace of the us, is to take their fucking toys away.

      Don’t allow them to travel to other countries. Economically sanction them and make burger price go up. For the love of god get the all military and all us bases out of your country.

      The us should be shunned and rot in rhe mess they made for themselves while the world builds solidarity and cooperates. Twisted fucks can learn appreciation for the world by experiencing being cut off from it.

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          Russia fights against usa

          They’re defending themselves from usa aggression, and liberate the world from nato’s genocidal colonial cops

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          Wars should be unequivocally opposed but why don’t you check out the wikipedia page for “United States Intervention in Latin America”. But hey thata just lat am, why not checkout the page for SE asia, or the middle east, or hell look at all those outstanding promisea you made to ukraine that you love so much.

          You might start to see a pattern with the US, that no other country comes even close too. Twisted evil country of psychopaths.

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          I love this comment. It’s like asking an ant to hold back the tide. The fact it’s said so unironically makes it better.

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              Hey brother, this is a fucking ML website correct? So imagine this shit…

              MANY ANTS COOPERATE, to take on some grasshoppers.

              Jesus fucking christ, american “leftists” are so pathetic.

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                Hey brother

                I’m not sure who you are responding to.
                Me or @corsicanguppy.

                Corsicanguppy was asked to something.
                Corsicanguppy was being defeatist.
                I told him to be like the ant against the grassphopper.
                You’re saying that like ants, they should cooperate.
                To that I say, right on! That’s the spirit!

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            The fact that that user recognises themselves as part of the country that has been nothing but a cancer in the world, and dislikes it, is already a lot and should be praised. They overcame the propaganda and used their minds and hearts to examine the world. 👍

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              We appreciate it, but it materially doesn’t help us outside of the US and it also doesn’t help y’all inside either

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                  It’s literally nothing, and Americans thinking dumping their feeling into the cyber abyss is “doing something” is a huge part of the problem.

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            Votes aren’t going to do shit for imperialism, that’s bipartisan. You also don’t need to Luigi people. Instead, you can organize in real life with a socialist party, and if the conditions for revolution arise, take part in that.

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              Luigi is easy to understand. Voting is easy to understand. When people say “organize in real life” what exactly do you mean? Picnics?

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                I mean joining an org like PSL, training and studying as an activist and directly participate in organizing outreach, educating others, forming protests, and more.

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            Voting doesn’t work when the candidate needs campaign money to get voted for.
            If the candidate needs campaign money to get voted in, then the candidate will automatically be corrupt,
            as no one is going to freely give someone lots of money unless they expect something back from it,
            and if candidates need to be on tv and pay good money for being on tv,
            then the candidates choices are to be corrupt or to be unknown
            and you will need to organize a different system of electing leaders.

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    Ban Preznit Piggy, for sure. No one with that many felonies, rape and pedophilia charges should be let in any decent country…

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    Did some Amercian tourists that had entered Venezuela via official ports of entry kidnap the president of Venezuela? What a weird correlation to draw.