Americans all across the political spectrum are actually not normal about soooo many countries, it is insane.
Israel. This goes beyond saying but both left wingers and righ wingers are convinced that the country is some sort of demon incarnate, they are blaming it for anything ranging from ICE to the Spain migration crisis, to their own political polarization. Generally antisemetism has made people all across the spectrum very stupid. And even a lot of the American supporters of Israel are insane evangelicals that only support israel bcs of their bs fantasies of Armageddon. So yeah no one is normal abt that country
AMERICA ITSELF. I feel like a lot of the polarization in american politics is bcs american politics have become a reckoning abt the question ''is america good?''. And one side insists it is the best and most glorious country in the world that has been wronged by everyone while some (although not all and the problem isn't as big as it is on the american right) leftists insist that country is beyond redemption and has produced nothing good (Shocker: Saying a country is beyond redemption is literaly the most unhelpful thing if the goal is to make it better)
China. Sorry but we either have the Hasan Piker types that try to fetishize it, ignoring the oppresion of the Tibetans or the Uyghrus or the political repression in general, or we have people convinced of the fact that China is an evil hellhole ignoring the fact that in the last decades the standards of living for the averege chinese person have JUMPED. As much as I don't like the chinese government, ignoring that basic fact doesn;'t help anyone and it is just stupid. Similarly to how it is stupid for people to just rage abt how china wants to dominate over africa through economic programs while supporting the withdrawal of USAID that allows for US to compete with china. Gnerally, maybe treating a geopolitical rival as either a cartoon hero or a cartoon villain is a bad strategy.
Any country in Subsaharan africa. In which conservatives and right wingers will assume people there are stupid and backwards ignoring both colonialism and other objective geographical conditions that led to the underdevelopment and have nothing to do with their racist bs theories. And then left wingers will soooo often push some noble savage bullshit and be like ''ohhh it is so wholesome these people are in touch with nature and traditions'' ignoring the fact people in Kenya or Tanzania WANT to industrialize, WANT to become richer and that doesn't make them greedy. Neither is their poverty some sort of mroal virtue to be upkept.
BOTTOM LINE: PLS DON'T TREAT COUNTRIES LIKE CARTOONS I BEG YOU I BEG YOU .
Hi, American here.
We wouldn't hate Israel so much if they'd get their government's fingers out of our politicians' asses. AIPAC affects our country on the highest level and I know you clearly have no idea how that works, but there's a reason we're pissed about this and it has nothing to do with antisemitism. It has everything to do with foreign interest actively controlling our government.
Our country is, actually, the greatest in the world for one reason: we cannot be conquered as we are. In fact every single legal immigrant, every single foreign guest and every single refugee given asylum who is not brainwashed into "capitalism evil", "white evil" and "west evil" /has said as much/. There is an active, long term subversion tactic used by communists to destroy pride in one's country - it started with them and it hasn't stopped - and that weakening is threatening our country with collapse into the same kind of system North Korea is under. There's a fucking reason nationalism and individualism are important.
We hate China because we are raised being told how much of a threat China is. We hate China because it is a gigantic populated communistic country so dictated by government that mothers killed their babies because the government said so, and because China actively works in sex trafficking to make up for the population disparity which killing female babies has created. We hate China because to us, this dictatorship of a country is unacceptable. Because to us, /individuals come before the collective/, and our country is /thriving/. Our troubles come from /artificially induced scarcity/.
Btw you have NO idea how much money and aid has been given to Africa to aid development. We literally built wells over there, we've had food drives to "help kids in Africa" for DECADES. Just a couple examples off the top of my fucking head.
Maybe stop opening your mouth about shit you aren't educated on?
Video related: this woman is a North Korean who made her way to America. There's an entire discussion after her main talk in the video. I suggest you sit your ass down and learn something.
hey. On top 10 pacs in the US, where is aipac? If foreign interests are controlling your government why did the Iran war end when trump wanted it to, despite bibi wishing it went on?
Do you hate the Chinese citizens or the government? Why are you blaming citizens for the government's actions? Especially in a country that's less democratic like China.
The aid to Africa. You mean stuff like USAID. That was cut. It /was/ a very good program. And the US undoubtedly helped in some places. But that does nothing to disprove OP's points. Many Americans still see that area of Africa (and sometimes the entirety of Africa) as either a) backwards people. Or b) the noble savage trope.
Maybe don't be so hostile. Just a thought.
I'm gonna be hostile when someone tells Americans not to treat countries like cartoons (we don't) and then treats us like a cartoon.
AIPAC is headquartered in DC.
You fell for propaganda and your words are dishonest. Iran never "ended" the war. They reached ceasefire agreements which ISRAEL continually breached, and as an "ally" ISRAEL continues to drag the war on. Foreign relationships and policies are more complicated than "put the guns down fella".
Point. Where the fuck did I blame countrymen for the actions of their government? Mmmmm what happened there? Citizens OBEYING THE CREED OF A GOVERNMENT THEY OUTNUMBER. The moment you kill children to live yourself is the moment you are soulless as a person. I clearly don't hate the Chinese as people, there are people resisting. I clearly hate a very specific type of person which exists in every country and skin. Nice strawman.
"Many Americans" how many? Put a fucking number down.
I'm hostile because people like you think you can come in and tell me what I think and when I correct it, you go "well OTHER people think".
No. Fuck you, fuck your double standard. You don't want us to treat others like a cartoon? Like they're not all the same?
Maybe fucking extend the same courtesy.
How about I give you a fucking taste?
We're sick of being treated like the butt of the world's every joke, we're sick of being treated like we are our president EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF OUR LIVES through EVERY presidency, we have been helping the fucking world financially off OUR tax money and lives WITHOUT our consent all our lives. We have built a country so strong and worthy that others WANT to come here.
I'm SICK TO DEATH of people like you trying to put my country down while I watch my country's people raised to HATE OUR HOME /and each other/. The ONLY nation on earth with every chance to resist what our government is becoming, what our system is becoming. Why? Because we have guns. Because we have /American culture and spirit/.
Literally because we have guns. We have every chance to fight on equal footing.
Because we have OUR ways and individualism, /we will resist to the death, armed or unarmed/.
While people like you fucking play superior, I'm watching my people turned against each other like they've never been before and you treat it like a JOKE. Because you're fucking entitled and expect us to help others EVEN NOW. It's EXPECTED of us, because we've ALWAYS DONE IT.
Fuck you, actually.
I LITERALLY MADE AN ENTIRE POINT ABT HOW TREATING AMERICA AS A JOKE AND A MONOLITH AND EVIL IS ALSO BAD. IT IS RIGHT THERE IN THE POST.
WTF are you talking abt???
