It is, but it kinda is low on the list of things that Americans should consider as massive moral failings and indictments on their society. I mean, most people give Trump shit cause he’s the seemingly incompetent head of the empire, not because he’s leading the nation that has caused the most death and sorrow in the world for the last 75 years and that openly oppressed, until not too long ago, the same people they enslaved and dehumanised many years prior. The list is gigantic, NGL.

Fair enough, my bad. And here I thought geopolitics were complex affairs, I should’ve just hated Eurasia and Oceania like daddy told me to.

America will finally be the Germanic/Western European ethnostate it was always meant to be. No wonder the US and Israel are so alike, lol, they share the same DNA!

I got the year wrong BECAUSE it hasn’t been drilled into my head, lol. I just believe it’s more complex than simply “Russia bad”, especially in the face of NATO expansionism. I’m not emotionally attached though, which is why I can actually freely learn about it, unlike others who can’t conceive anything outside of “Russia bad, China bad, West good”…

I don’t believe that, I believe that the terms stop having meaning when tyranny overpowers ideology.

Anyone here understands geopolitics and the cornering of Russia by NATO (read: the US plus European vassals) or are you just talking out of vibes? Anyone here remembers the 2011 US coup on Ukraine and what it led to? It’s a bit more complex than what the commenters here believe, lol.

So, was this always just the best possible narrative spin for Trump to do some open market manipulation and make him and his peers even richer or is Trump stupid enough to believe the nonsense he was fed and regurgitated to his followers?

Thank you for your concern, honestly. I’ll still try and see how insufferable they are, although they asked me about animal liberation and GSM (?) on the application so I have a feeling you’re right to warn me, lol.

Then maybe my understanding of “leftism” as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider “liberal”?

I’m sorry, I’m new to Lemmy. Thank you for taking the time to check, lol. Time to check them out and see if I’m annoying enough to fit in! 😅

Ehhh, the American administration has singlehandedly wrecked the world for their own gain pretty much since WW2, either directly through the murder of hundreds of thousands or indirectly sponsoring coups and sowing instability overall. I mean, even the invasion of Ukraine happened because of an American coup in Ukraine in 2011 (that, eventually, ended up with the actor in office) and Russia understanding this as the precursor of an American mobilization in Russia. And whilst the Chinese human right abuses are also monstrous and unethical, at least they’re localised? It’s a mishandling of internal affairs, not an external invasion and utter destruction. I’m sorry, but they’re not even comparable. You could say “if China had carte blanche like the US did through military supremacy they would’ve acted the same way” but I doubt it, because I’ve seen and lived around Chinese people and around Americans/Westerners and the cultures couldn’t be more different… Regardless, if we take away the maybes, you have to objectively admit the American admin has been a blight on this world, through leaders on “both sides” of the American political spectrum, moreso than anyone in recent history.

You can hate all three, or you can hate the American admin and give more leeway to those who haven’t yet shown they’re entirely Godless and immoral, and you can certainly prefer the Chinese and Russian admin for the same reasons, I guess.

You know what? I’m about to say it: I don’t care that you broke your elbow.

Isn’t Hexbear a leftist community? Aren’t leftists by default anti-imperialist and the biggest genocides in history and ongoing perpetrated by bloodthirsty empires? I feel like most people affiliated can’t be genocide deniers, come on…

I’m sorry, OP, I’ve just read that a couple too many times and I truly wonder what the reasoning behind it is. Is it just American right-wingers complaining? Cause, whatever, America is going full isolationist so we only have to listen to them for a decade or so before they firewall everything and Lemmy goes full German, lol. Or is it something else?

People keep on saying this but I haven’t noticed it. Am I just immune to being greatly annoyed by the delivery if the intentions are right? Show me where the hexbear touched you, OP!

Greed is an “intention” though, and the dodo case is just an exception. People are competent enough to live and even “succeed” often despite their incompetence, as seen by history. Intentional wrongdoing, particularly while competent a la Henry Kissinger for instance, has always been the enemy, not incompetent benevolence. We’ve always been able to accommodate the latter, I think.

Regardless, I meant “all that matters” when it comes to living with oneself and facing God, but incompetence certainly makes things hard for us here.

That saying is such an Anglo cultural tell, lol. Intentions are all that matter! Because, unless you die right after the realization but before the act, you are certainly gonna follow through with that intention. You might make mistakes out of incompetence, sure, but no one is perfect, and God knows that you tried to do good so it’s all good… duh.

Again though, not surprising, a cultural “tell” if you will.

It’s time to understand how little you understand if you find the eternally lonely, mostly poorly socialized Westerners on Reddit have many valuable takes on interpersonal relationships, lol. That’s like coming to me for cooking advice and thinking I’m helpful and experienced because I can tell sugar from salt! 😅

Americans did COVID and China did 9/11, lol. My hunch is on it being an accidentally released manufactured virus.

Somehow I see China absorbing Taiwan without much bloodshed, maybe I’m optimistic. India and Pakistan is something else, you’re probably right. Oh well. :/