• Soulg@ani.social
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    20 days ago

    Decades of propaganda and being beat over the head with American exceptionalism and some main character syndrome mixed in.

    A massive amount of the terrible shit America does, if not basically all of it, comes down to the belief a shocking amount of people have that the US is just the fucking protagonist of earth and absolutely anything and everything we do is righteous and just, everyone else hates us because we’re too fucking awesome and cool (literally, one of the main reasons given as to why Iran supposedly would nuke us for no reason is because "they hate our way of life).

    It’s just an absurd amount of deeply broken people, with massive amounts of lead poisoning, just thrashing about as they realize they’ll die soon.

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      20 days ago

      comes down to the belief a shocking amount of people have that the US is just the fucking protagonist of earth and absolutely anything and everything we do is righteous and just

      Yeah, that’s it.

      There are so many nations that could use those good intentions. But “they’re not near the Persian Gulf, so fuck 'em.”

      Says a lot about the true intentions of the hero in America’s hero narrative.