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[–] sean@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

and thank god so will europe and russia and probably china (assuming they don't win out as the first global hegemony)—there are no innocent superpowers

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

The Nazis were inspired by what went on in America. Genocide, concentration camps, segregation, forced sterilization, taking the children, etc

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

America is already worse than Russia, you guys just don't remember recent history

70k dead in Gaza, half of them children. Russia didn't do this.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 13 points 2 days ago

2 things

  1. It says Nazi Germany not Russia
  2. Don't imply I'm American, ew
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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (50 children)
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[–] tino@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States said it all in 1980. The current events are only new chapters to the book.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

its been known to be worse than germany for hundreds of years, hitler based his concentration camps and the holocaust in part on the american treatment of indigenous people.

they killed tens of millions of people with muskets, 6 shooters, repeaters, and disease, on horses, and trains. all the while enslaving an entire race of human beings in the process. which arguably was the main reason they could enrich and modernize their country in the first place. free labour.

america has always ALWAYS been the bad guy. they just had really really good "marketing" and military strength for the last century.

what is happening now are the final flailings of a dying empire. it will stretch itself thin, bankrupt itself, crash the dollar, fuck the global economy, and be picked apart by oligarchs until mentioning the word "union" gets you shot on the spot, not by a robot police officer, but your fellow "patriot" between spoon fulls of soylent green.

the rot is far too deep, and the purification of chaos is, unfortunately, the only remedy, and an imminant one at that. whether we agree or not, like it or not, its coming, its here. and thats just the way it has to be, apparantly.

any social progress may have to wait a few decades, maybe even centuries depending on the outcome of WW3. if at all.

but, EVENTUALLY, if we survive it. there will be a social revolution, and hopefully that one creates a better life for those alive to live it. likely still just a handfull will enjoy everything life has to offer and more. but maybe, just maybe the masses will take back whats theirs and live fully again.

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