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anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so….. I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

Something that the Americnas of this site wont even comprehend. Shit like this happens everyday in europe and we get used to it because the alternative is some yanke bullcrab

genuinely have no more patience or understanding left. if you won't stand up for jews, get the fuck away from me. the hatred and pogroms and murders won't stop until the rest of you decide it might possibly be time to deal with the rampant antisemitism in your communities.

actually I hate the term "mutual aid" it reeks of white exceptionalism. what you think is "cool counterculture never been done before sooo leftist" is considered normal adult mature people behavior in most cultures. like you are pretending you invented something soooo new and different but not crediting the people for whom this is normal and expected behavior, and then backwardly superimposing your Eurocentric term onto cultures which do not think this is anything special and often don't have a term for it or it is just called "generosity". like is it soso radical for me to hand my shirt to someone who asked for it? no because that is expected behavior in Senegal. You are supposed to literally give someone the shirt off of your back if they ask for it. "mutual aid" is not a thing when everyone is expected to share. people do not seek praise and recognition over it, they just share their food with everyone all the time. like my friend who is Haitian bought a full size pizza for everyone and carried it around today asking everyone in different rooms if they wanted some. that is normal people behavior. and its not just the african diaspora. in China the standard way of asking after someone politely is "have you eaten?". If the person being asked says no, the asker must feed them no matter what even if they are a total stranger. the famous Lakota chief and medicine man Tatanka Iyotake (Buffalo-Bull-Sitting-Down, more commonly known by whites as "Sitting Bull") was appalled at the existence of street urchins during his travels across the eastern seaboard and used to hand all of his earnings penny by penny to the nearest starving child, while apparently muttering to himself in Lakota "white men think they are so great, but really they cannot even feed their children and behave like them" or something to that effect (this anecdote is from Lakota oral history). Cultures as disparate as Apache and Japanese have noted their confusion and disgust at the selfishness, irrationality, lack of emotional restraint, and unwillingness to share of the Europeans they encountered. So like..... idk be a normal person and get out of your bubble?