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The US would be better off if it becomes a socialist/communist country during the Great Depression - if any of you wanted an idea on what that would be like, read the althistory story "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline".

I mean this is what happens when you send your religious fanatics and criminals to colonize new lands. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] 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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[โ€“] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So I can't see most of the comments here on hexbear, but In going to assume you have a bunch of libs agreeing that yes Trump has made it worse, a few comrades pointing out the US has always been like this, and then a shitton of dumbass lemmitors spouting ahistorical red-scare arguments in response to those comrades.

[โ€“] hamid@crazypeople.online 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I should make a "liberal thoughtkiller" flowchart. Everything they do is predetermined

[โ€“] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago

Even got one blaming nazis invading Poland because they wanted to distract from government spending killing the German economy....

[โ€“] frengo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They got away with Latin America coups, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and many more, they will got away with Venezuela and Palestine. In the end who can make them stop? The world is a jungle and in the jungle the law of the strongest prevails.

[โ€“] figjam@midwest.social 34 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Cool, can we fast forward to the hangings pls?

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Considering the country was founded on the greatest genocide history has ever seen and chattel slavery, this should have been the case the whole time.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 65 points 3 days ago (44 children)

Give me any nazi atrocity and I can provide an example of the US doing it, and probably far worse and on a larger scale.

List of US atrocities.

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[โ€“] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago (27 children)

I don't care what history has to say about us to high schoolers in 2060, I'm living in a country that will eventually hang me for posting this. The world needs to get it's shit together and stop this train.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 84 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (32 children)

If you live in the US Empire, you can be a part of the movement to end it. Especially with the Empire's recent aggression against Venezuela, now is a good time to get active! Join an org like the PSL! They're already organizing anti-war protests, and even had one on Saturday.

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[โ€“] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

American Business has bought in. Here is Hilton hotels distancing themselves from one of their hotels that turned away ICE agents.

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[โ€“] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This is only true of somebody does something about us.

[โ€“] jasoman@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Can read. Not upset. We probably kill more innocent s since the fall of the third riech then they have.

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