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What tf has the United States stood for, if not colonialism, racism and genocide?
I'm glad USAians are starting to despise their country as much as the rest of the world now that it's starting to happen to them, but please keep the lusting after the good ol days that never existed to the boomers.
Presumably, making people understand that the US (and western Europe) represent the most evil shit imaginable in the past 5 centuries including essentially the genocide of the entire continent of America and the colonisation of the entirety of south america, Africa and most of Asia, and that at no point was it worth dying for.
Sorry, in the future I'll be more respectful of people who say they'll defend colonialism, racism and genocide with their lives.
You must have interpreted the image differently because to me it very much sounds like they're saying things used to be good and now the country became bad. In fact, that's the word being used.
And, frankly, I'm tired of people singing praises of the good old days when they melted the skin off of children in Cambodia and sent death squads to South America. I don't care what they think they were fighting for, the onus of not loving genocide is on them.
Alright, I'll follow your lead and inform people the United States has always stood for those things, but also not tell anyone that the United States stands for those things cause they might get mad and become even more racist.
Note that the meme doesn't talk about what the United States stood for
We kind of hoped we were turning over a new leaf. Nope, same fucking leaf. Same rotting monetary elite underneath it all.
It has also stood for resisters, runaways, rebellion, race traitors, class traitors, communist, unionists, socialists, militant farming communities, civil rights protestors, suffregettes, panthers, occupiers, standing rock, bros and whatever comes next to drag this country into something slightly better and closer to its written ideals.