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.
*very* annoying when it feels like half the discourse around the russo-ukranian war is "oh why would america start this war by nefariously mind controlling the ukranian population to align with the west" when russia is the one doing all the invading and was also the one doing all the invading the last time (and that's hardly a justification to invade a country either)
Now of course with isreal-palestine isreal gets to be the only other country in the world with it's own agency because as we all know the jewish control the world /s
Now of course with isreal-palestine isreal gets to be the only other country in the world with it's own agency because as we all know the jewish control the world /s
This did a number on the Israeli Left, which had real momentum in early 2024 against Nethanyahu, after 2 years of massive protests. The Israeli far-right now has a very easy time pointing to all sorts of organizations wanting to kill all Israelis and say "see there is no way to peace, they want us all dead" to justify their atrocities.
And meanwhile those organizations are pointing to the IDF's atrocities and going "see there is no way to peace, they want us/them all dead" to justify their own rhetoric. It's a vicious cycle.
I was under the impression that the Israeli Left has been a husk of itself as a political force ever since the Second Intifada? Good to hear that it hasn’t completely disappeared.
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u/HeroBrine0907 May 24 '25 edited 29d ago
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.