All Outta Spoons

The US has gotten away with a LOT of shit by touting itself as a "free" nation without ever really defining what that means.

And a lot of nations are letting themselves off the hook for their collaboration with the ruse.

Because if the US was willing to do all the ugly shit they didn't want to be seen doing, they could reap the benefits while heaping scorn on the actors.

At the most obvious level, I don't believe a nation should be allowed to call itself "free" if it practices chattel slavery. So that was a giant, flaming issue from the very beginning.

England practiced chattel slavery, too. But people at home didn't think it was exactly the thing. So they banned it...while keeping the practice going strong in their colonies. Which allowed the people at home to ignore the bad shit going down in their name.

Sounds familiar....

Not once, in the entire history of this nation, has every citizen of the United States held all of the same rights and privileges as every other citizen.

That doesn't sound much like a free country.

That sounds like the same old shit hiding under a thick layer of "freedom" propaganda.

White supremacy has tilted every facet of this country since its founding. As has misogyny.

At its most basic level, the US is built on racism and sexism.

A truly free nation would not have multiple classes of marginalized people who are expected to constantly petition the government for their rights. That's our big freedom in the US - to beg our elected officials not to add more discrimination against us. And we have to work jobs to pay their salaries while we are expected to spend our "free" time pleading with legislators to give a shit.

I'm not the first or only person saying this by far, but the entire "freedom" line was and is bullshit and has been so since day one.

You are not locked by the party you registered as.

You are not locked by the party you registered as.

That's right. The US gov is now poised to PAY Jan 6th insurrectionists.