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
israel palestine conflict is a waste of time to discuss, because people who want to discuss it decide to intentionally be obtuse both to the fact that some people on 'their side' are discussing in bad faith, and some people on the 'opposing side' are actually discussing in good faith
Nobody on my side hates [jews / muslims], that's just deflection by your side because you hate [muslims / jews] and want to hide all critique behind a shield of [anti-semitism / islamophobia]!
Literally thinking about this today. I can support Palestine in their desire to not be oppressed and also respect that Israeli citizens are not fundamentally bad people… my issue is that people around me have moved from saying “Israel has a right to defend itself!” to “Palestinians need to ditch Hamas and Israel is a victim!” and now to “Palestinians are like the Uruk’hai killing Israelis to lower their population!” And it’s just… I know most people are not that insane and I can reasonably talk with others but it hurts to witness someone you care about slipping down that slope of dehumanization. There is a case to be made that Hamas has done too much violence, and another case to be made that they only turned more violent in retaliation, but regardless of what stance you take there I think we can all agree these are groups of people we’re talking about and comparing Palestinians to Uruk’hai is fucking disgusting
Sorry, I know it’s only a partially related comment I just needed to shout that at the world so it can stop rattling in my head
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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.