Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhen in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle?message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down117
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareWhen in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareAssassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down3·1 month agoAround the time that we decided to subjugate the natives, steal their land, and bring in slaves. America has only been the land of the free for rich whites.
minus-squarechocrates@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoAgreed. America was a major war profiteer off of ww2 And we rode that high for a long time. America has never been “good” or moral.
minus-squareJohnnyEnzyme@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month ago America has never been “good” or moral. Super-important major realisation.
minus-squareJohnnyEnzyme@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoDamn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing?? Natives, always… please leave us alone?
Around the time that we decided to subjugate the natives, steal their land, and bring in slaves. America has only been the land of the free for rich whites.
Agreed.
America was a major war profiteer off of ww2 And we rode that high for a long time.
America has never been “good” or moral.
Super-important major realisation.
Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??
Natives, always… please leave us alone?