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2naSalit

(90,238 posts)
4. We murrikins have a habit of...
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 10:23 AM
Aug 2021

Going to other cultures and kicking their asses and taking their stuff all while telling ourselves that we are doing it for democracy or for the sake of those whose asses we just kicked. We insist that they assimilate to our culture and way of thinking and starve them if they don't give us what we want.

We need to sit the fuck down and clean up our act at home and decide whether we really are a democracy or an imperial power. I hope we decide on democracy or the end of the biosphere will come more quickly by way of continued pollution from our military operations around the planet.

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