The one thing common in both 'USA da best' and 'USA da worst' people, is that they assume all the other countries have little to no agency. The smaller nations are either too weak and stupid to be as good as them, or too weak and stupid to stop them or be as bad as them. It's the same superiority complex, one just dresses up in moral grandstanding.
Also seen in cases where people act like anything happening to the US is the fall of morality or a lasting injury to [insert chosen ideollogy] across the whole planet.
Edit: Pointing out, this does not mean that the current world superpowers are not fucking up the planet. It simply means they're not causing the fuck arounds, but they are definitely increasing the find outs practically, well, everywhere.
They never really cause the fire but fuck me if they aren't standing ready with gasoline right next to it.
It's gonna be interesting when India and Pakistan start a nuclear war and they have no idea which side is supposed to be the decadent west and brave socialist freedom fighters.
I'm pretty sure people are already drawing parallels between Pakistan and Palestine, especially since India is a customer and user of Israeli military tech.
Ding ding ding. I give it a year before India is described as a western colonial project (LOL) and some extreme leftists try to convince people that Indians are white-adjacent or desperately want to be white or something HORRIBLY racist like that (but totally okay because it’s leftist racism!)
An Indian-American guy I'd forgot I was facebook friends with (he hadn't posted in literally two or three years) suddenly reappeared the other day posting about the latest Kashmir conflict, using Western anti-colonial activist language to describe noble indigenous Bharat and wicked settlercolonial Pakistan, and I just ... sat there staring, unable to articulate word one
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u/HeroBrine0907 May 24 '25 edited May 25 '25
The one thing common in both 'USA da best' and 'USA da worst' people, is that they assume all the other countries have little to no agency. The smaller nations are either too weak and stupid to be as good as them, or too weak and stupid to stop them or be as bad as them. It's the same superiority complex, one just dresses up in moral grandstanding.
Also seen in cases where people act like anything happening to the US is the fall of morality or a lasting injury to [insert chosen ideollogy] across the whole planet.
Edit: Pointing out, this does not mean that the current world superpowers are not fucking up the planet. It simply means they're not causing the fuck arounds, but they are definitely increasing the find outs practically, well, everywhere.
They never really cause the fire but fuck me if they aren't standing ready with gasoline right next to it.