Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days 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-square14fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down116
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 · 2 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareAssassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down3·2 days 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 day 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 day ago America has never been “good” or moral. Super-important major realisation.
minus-squareJohnnyEnzyme@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day 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?