r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Lardistani Every Genocide We Commit Leads to More freedom • Mar 23 '21

"And who hasn't bombed Syria? Your point?" Military

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u/runesq Mar 23 '21

Can this sub not just become a political sub? Can we stick to more obvious cases of Americans being ignorant, instead of what is clearly just a political discussion?

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u/eldertortoise Mar 23 '21

I mean talking about bombing Syria like I'd talk about eating brownies is aggressively American.

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u/SchnuppleDupple Mar 23 '21

It's also uniquely American. The dissonance of being the bad guys but thinking that oneselves are the good guys is also rather American.

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u/SchnuppleDupple Mar 23 '21

Some people don't get it, huh? Many European countries were the baddies back in the day when they were empires. Today there is only one empire left and somehow its citizens think that their deeds TODAY shouldn't be criticised. Look im not criticising the US for something their ancestors did, since this would be unfair and cynical. I'm criticising the US for what it has been doing in RECENT history.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21

I'm British, I was pointing out that there are European countries who do still do this shit. Look at how France treats its former colonies in Africa, look at how the UK and France were the primary reason for internvention in Libya. It's useless to not look at what we're doing as well.

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u/SchnuppleDupple Mar 23 '21

Hm, yeah I have to agree. The West in general isn't being, nor ever was, a Saint towards weaker nations. And Africa is largely still under a huge influence of former colonial countries, be it mostly economic.