• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    yes, the united states forced that dependency on the rest of the world and it’s not just the united states that’s embracing fascism. if you’re an american, it’s not surprising to know that you’re unaware of the other fascist parties that are getting stronger in the rest of the global north like afd in germany; reform in the uk; national front in france; meloni’s victory in italy; new democracy party in greece; etc.

    this child-like view of “good” and “bad” countries is holding you back.

    • Donald J. Shkreli@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Ok, so have you told Lemmy this? Because Lemmy seems to think we are the only bad guy. Did you let Lemmy know your theory?

      And wow, if we forced dependency on everyone, the how is it we are falling apart? Lemmy says it’s over the for US. But you make it sound like we are plenty powerful.

      Sounds like the good country pool is getting smaller and smaller. Hmmm, what do you think about that?

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        2 days ago

        americans began forcing the dependency on latin america during the 19th century and then started doing it to the rest of the world around world war 2; it accidentally started declining thanks to nixon and reagan unwittingly kicked it into overdrive. the power is still there but it’s spread thin thanks to ukraine, taiwan, isreal, venezuela, colombia, cuba & mexico all happening at the same time; the world starting to distrust the united states because of its support for isreal despite the gazan genocide live-streaming on social media; and trump alienating the other colonial powers that have been trusted american allies until now.

        your child-like characterization of countries as “good guys” or “bad guys” is one of the big reasons why westerners (especially americans) don’t know why trump is in power, or why the other countries like the united states is embracing fascism, or why the united states power has been spread so thin and no one (not even lemmy) will learn it until people like you drop this child-like characterization and start reading books that aren’t written by westerners.

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          2 days ago

          your child-like characterization of countries as “good guys” or “bad guys” is one of the big reasons why westerners (especially americans)

          Then by your logic, other countries without these “child-like” issues, shouldn’t have a problem being self-sufficient and not depend on us. Because what does it say about these awesome non-western countries that are still so dependent on a child like us? :)

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                2 days ago

                it’s a powerful country that started to lose power sometime in the 1970’s. the vietnam defeat was the first sign that it had lost some of its power and afghanistan has confirmed that it is still happening.

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                  1 day ago

                  So you are saying we started losing our power 50 fucking years ago?! Um, seems we are still pretty powerful. I get it, you hate the US. I don’t care. We are still the most powerful nation in the world and people are too afraid to try to make a go of things without us.

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                    9 hours ago

                    it usually takes generations for an empire to decline and you’ve got it all wrong again; when you love something, you can see its flaws and recognize how to fix them.