• LukeZaz@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    If you want to shit on America the country, I’m with you. I could hardly disagree with the top comment in this chain; America is, after all, racist, bigoted and fascist right now. The nation, and especially the government, deserve all the vitriol.

    But please don’t shit on Americans writ large. Too many of us hate this just as much as you do, and we really don’t appreciate being lumped in with those who enabled it.

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        2 days ago

        I honestly have no idea how to respond to this. Did you read my comment and its context? Because I can’t figure out what point you’re even trying to make, so it really feels like you didn’t.

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            2 days ago

            Well, considering I never voted for Trump, am against bigotry in all its forms, don’t want to deport people for having the wrong skin color, believe that free healthcare is a human right, hate capitalism, etc… I don’t think it’s unfair to say that I very much am not like the fascists currently in power or the people who voted for them at all.

            How is it fair to criticize me as though I’m the same as them when I’m fighting against them? Does my being born here somehow make me deserving of scorn?

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              You’re being scorned right now? Because some guy said he doesn’t trust Americans to form a competent government and I said you’re an American? Get real man, this is the exact American exceptionalism everyone is sick of.

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                14 hours ago

                some guy said he doesn’t trust Americans to form a competent government

                Not what he said.

                and I said you’re an American?

                Not what you said.

                You don’t seem to have an interest in understanding the impact of your own words, either before posting them or afterwards. No point in talking, then.