Peak gringo deflection. Because unlike USians speaking about countries they're actively, openly sabotaging, the rest of the world should be able to criticize the one government trying to fuck us all in the pursuit of having everything for its ruling class forever. I'll stop talking about the US the moment y'all fuck off and stop stealing all our wealth through your financial and military apparatus, or spreading torture and terror through proxies because it's "the strategy" only to use it as an excuse to talk about us like animals. I'd be happy to never again remember your shit stain of a country.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works -4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

American's aren't fucking you over. The US government is fucking you and it's citizens over. It isn't my fault the government of the place I happened to be born in is evil.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

It isn't just the government, it's also the fact that the US is the world's imperial hegemon, and a settler-colonial state. There's a large portion of workers bribed by the spoils of imperialism and settler-colonialism into complacency with the status quo, or even enthusiastic support. The oppressed black, chicano, indigenous, and other nations within the US are in general not just fucked over by the capitalists and state, but by their fellow workers.

It's important that we identify the core issues with the US Empire, and that we don't white-wash its genuine problems away and push them all on the state or the bourgeoisie. The working class needs to unite, but to truly do so, we have to recognize and align on anti-imperialism and decolonization, both of which require a large portion of the working class to work against their own class interests.