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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 50 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

"America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea:  We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.  We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never fully walked away from it either."

OK but when I say foreign people's lives matter as much as American lives so warmongers like Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Biden are mass murderers and should be tried for murder, I'm the crackpot? Are all people evil or not?

Libs be like all people are equal except for anyone we want to kill

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea:  We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.  We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never fully walked away from it either."

Shut the fuck up Amerikkka was founded on racism and genocide.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

John Brown is my American Founding Father, let's write the history as it should be.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Uh aktually, if you had paid attention to social studies, America was founded on tax evasion.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Yep, which makes Genocide Joe a fitting president.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea: We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives

A blatant lie if there ever was one. America was founded by literal slave owners who were eager to exterminate the indigenous population and steal their land.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep and there were even white people who pointed out how absurd it was for the founders to act like they thought all people were equal when they also tortured human beings with chattel slavery. Wasn't a "times were different" thing, America has just always been evil.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

The one “good” founding father, Paine, was an idealist who’s words were co-opted to further their bourgeois revolt. He died penniless and reviled because he actually believed the equality shit

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I really hate how American politicians use so much American exceptionalism in their speeches. They can’t make a single one without acting like they’re an exception among bottom feeders.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

American politicians don't know any history at all.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

CiTy On ThE HiLl

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ho Chi Minh was inspired by the US’ declaration of independence and even included its opening lines of everyone being created equal in the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, and for that, the US slaughtered his countrymen.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well don't you see, all the people they targeted were evildoers so the collateral damage is easily forgiven! It works for citizens too, just the other day I saw a man threatening someone, a heroic Car Driver went straight into the crowd and settled that mess, may the 15 souls lost find peace.