• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The US never went through a character arc. Why and how would they? They’re hyper focused on violence and the self, leaving behind morality, self reflection and self restraint, and they’re self-centered enough that they never cared for someone else’s suffering. This is also why the US is not an actual community but a collection of competing strangers. It’s a nation of selfish villains, basically Western European culture on crack (which would make Israel Western culture on fent? lol), the unholy child of the two major historical villains France and the UK…

    After all these years, they’re the same people, the same amoral, heartless morons. They haven’t changed and they never will without external help, because from their Anglo-Saxon/Western European origins they will only find idk forest fairies and Viking pillaging and orgies in their ideological toolbox. So whatever excuse for violent takeover they had centuries ago will work again today, and I don’t think it’ll change, not for at least 50 years post American balkanization or something, and God knows when that’s gonna happen.

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      Two wrongs don’t make a right, and the UK is not the biggest villain in the world rn (just a sidekick, which makes it complicit but not as concerning), hasn’t been for over half a century… Not because they did an ideological 180, lol, but because of circumstances but still. And they’re not as casually violent as Americans, I can tell you that much. Also, America has the bombs and big guns, it’s kind of important to follow up on what they’re doing because of their reach and impact. Finally, that’s a very common reaction I see online and all I can think of it is that it is very feminine in nature, lol. You don’t have to cosign your country’s sins, you know, you can also criticise them like any righteous person would? No need to feel overly guilty! 😅

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        Finally, that’s a very common reaction I see online and all I can think of it is that it is very feminine in nature, lol.

        …🤔🤨

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      16 hours ago

      yup. britain is basically the only empire that could ever compare with the destruction promoted by the us empire.

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        Oh they are so much worse it’s not even a question. Truly they are the emperor to our Darth Vader.

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    19 hours ago

    Wow, have they only just noticed? They also need to take a look at Farage and some of their own media. It’s not an accident that fascism is on the rise.

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      18 hours ago

      No. It’s just reached the point that they can no longer remain diplomatic about it. Which I suspect was similarly the case in the 1930s.

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    I’ve heard how British MPs talk. Their rhetoric may be particular to Britain, but they are every bit as evil, bigoted, genocidal and whateverr else as their American counterparts. The once upon a time “socialist” Labour isn’t even tailing Reform at this point, they are just leapfrogging each other on the worst kind of shit straight out of 1939 Germany.
    In various degrees and according to domestic conditions, the trend is the same all over the empire.

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    House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics

    That’s pure comedy gold.

    The House of Commons seems to have never had a problem interfering in the politics of other countries. For example, in Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKuOlpffdU