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So I don't think I'm a tankie. I'm certainly a socialist, but I'm not an authoritarian. I feel this post though. Like, I've lived and breathed the evil of the American empire. I grew up across various us military bases and eventually got a related job and security clearance. I've seen it with my own eyes, and I even got some of the blood on my hands while I still thought it was heroic.
The evil of other nations though? I've heard and read about it, but I've barely actually seen any of it. What I have seen is an absolute unending torrent of propaganda being firehosed at me and everybody I've ever known for my entire life by the American government. I feel like I find out at least once a month that some deeply held belief I have about a different part of the world is a fabrication of my own government meant to keep me worshipping at the altar of American exceptionalism, or some bit of racism that never got stamped out of military culture.
I'm old enough to understand that the world is a gray place, and enemies of America aren't good by default. I certainly understand questioning if any of them are as bad as I learned growing up though
Really? Like, putin's invasion of ukraine? Or the gaza genocide? Or the myanmar civil war and rohingya genocide? Or the sudan civil war? Or the tibetan oppression?
Like i get it, you hate the propaganda machine feeding you some half-truth and you don't know what to believe, but still, just because you've done some evil under the name of USA doesn't mean it's all propaganda feeding.
Good, israel and russia's crime is absolved now, all investigation should point to US. Yay.