• Karl@literature.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    What’s wrong with it? Why’re Americans suddenly hating their country so much lol, you can still love the country even if you hate the govt

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      8 hours ago

      Why would you love a country built on genocide, exploitation, supremacy, lies, and bigotry? Do you like those things?

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      9 hours ago

      Getting the orange clown elected, twice, shows how awful the entire country is. It’s not a few nut bars it’s endemic.

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        6 hours ago

        Brainwashing can make you do a lot of awful things.

        In my own country, I’ve seen really nice people support a bad regime.

        It’s bad people taking advantage of the ignorance of good people

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          Americans have some of the best access to information on the planet. Americans aren’t stupid or ignorant, we’re performers. That’s why you give those friendly sounding Americans the benefit of the doubt. All those conservatives playing innocent like they don’t know exactly what they did are definitely enthralled, but a big part of it is manipulating others’ perception of them so they’re treated like innocent children who can’t be held responsible for their decisions. A lot of them even believe their own performance and free themselves from all accountability even from themselves. I’ve lived around conservatives for a long time. The only way to be an American conservative is to live exclusively in bad faith.

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      I don’t love an abstract legal identity. I’m capable of being happy with institutions, the culture composed if the people living there, and adoring the natural splendor.
      Right now I’m actively angry at the institutions, a huge number of people have taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and I’ve got no problems with the forest still.
      Me and the forest are cool, and that’s part of why I’m mad at the institutions.

      I have no desire to live in the forest because, if nothing else, that’s not good for the forest. Then the people who opted to live there became insane, and decided to largely gut all of the institutions, and make it easier to destroy the forest.

      “I live in a state of natural splendor, and I’m willing to fight to let you cut it down, splash me with mercury , and blot out the sun with smoke because I don’t have healthcare and fuck you for asking. It’s the refugees who are the problem”.