• forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    Oh, well, the fact that we saw it all as “not our problem” until then kinda makes us opportunistic assholes, though. Especially since we exploited the hell out of the post war circumstances. Shit, original concept for the UN gave us the only veto. But we had to bribe the reluctant countries with something.

    Oh, don’t forget that the horrible evil enemy everyone was fighting took a LOT of inspiration in the mechanics of how to be so evil directly from American politics.

    So, helping end the war? Yeah, that’s generally a pretty cool thing. Everything else? Ummm, yuck.

    The myth we were all taught about the nobility of our country was never true. For fucks sake, the founding of our country was upon the genocide of the native population.

    No, we’ve never been great. Sorry.