• rockettaco37@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    People who support this aren’t American anyway. Real Americans believe in human rights

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        22 hours ago

        I’m sorry, but when you actively support bullshit laws like this that dehumanize people, you don’t get to call yourself an American. Simple as that

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          22 hours ago

          To be clear, I am not defending them. I am just pointing out bad logic because it leads to bad beliefs and opinions.

          Unfortunately, these people are Americans, and there’s a whole bunch of them. There is no value whatsoever in trying to argue otherwise.

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            22 hours ago

            All I’m trying to say is that fascism is decidedly un-American

            Unfortunately that seems to be changing. It’s almost as if this country learned nothing 80 years ago

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              22 hours ago

              Yeah I dunno about all that… Hitler famously got most of his ideas from America. He modeled a lot of Nazi Germany after Jim Crow, and all the eugenics stuff originated in the US and was big in the academic community prior to WW2.

              We even had a massive conspiracy by corporations to take down FDR and install a fascist dictator. George W. Bush’s grandfather was literally involved.

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                22 hours ago

                I suppose you’re right that bringing nationality into it probably wasn’t the best idea.

                This is still unacceptable though

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          Or, like, any pre-2008 American history lmao

          Recognizing human rights was an anomaly over the last few years, not the norm

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            1 day ago

            You’re not wrong, but I also don’t think the US is unique in that regard. There’s been a lot of bullshit going on, even in countries that you would never imagine things like that happening in.

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        2 days ago

        In most decent states there’s been a ton of progress. I never claimed we were always perfect. No country has been.

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          No I know. I would say all countries are pretty fucked up actually. Because human leaders are greedy and awful human beings in most cases.

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          1 day ago

          You say “decent states” as if you think rural east Oregon is better than Atlanta in that regard, just because Oregon is blue and Georgia is red.