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The mask of humanity falls from capital (iili.io)

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless, and just wants to burn it all down.

I'm okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that. The fact that it can't meet that goal now for years to come doesn't change the goal itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless

I don't get that impression. I see someone who doesn't like how their country runs, and understands the way its run is systematically harmful and ineffective. There's a huge difference between politically critiquing a country and being a hateful nihilist!

I’m okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that.

I think they do too. It just might not be an America as we know it - the problems go far deeper than who is in power. America wasn't good under Obama, they just hid away the horrible parts very well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Assuming you're liberal, my god this sounds straight out of the republican "stupid things to say when someone doesn't fellate America" playbook.