We must not pigeonhole people, not in the US nor anywhere else. As I write this comment there are apparently two US citizens in this thread who definitely don’t appear to fit into your description. [Edit typo.]
Are you not aware how metonymy works? Of course there are nice Americans. There are nice people everywhere. “The Americans” here is being used as a stand in for the actions of their government for at least the last sixty years. Longer, if you include the centuries of land theft, genocide, slaving, pillage, and terror. All of these acts were sanctioned by a government that was elected, supported, and funded by American citizens. This is who they are. The presence of a few friendly faces in a sea of greedy, rapacious cunts doesn’t change much.
That’s got the same energy as a cop showing up to protest the term “ACAB”.
Don’t like hearing it? Fix it. And that doesn’t mean reposting shit to your echo chamber of choice. That doesn’t mean standing with a sign. If you haven’t lit something on fire you’re part of the problem just like all the “good cops”.
The Americans were always a bunch of evil, self-interested bastards — all that’s changed is they’ve stopped pretending otherwise.
We must not pigeonhole people, not in the US nor anywhere else. As I write this comment there are apparently two US citizens in this thread who definitely don’t appear to fit into your description. [Edit typo.]
Are you not aware how metonymy works? Of course there are nice Americans. There are nice people everywhere. “The Americans” here is being used as a stand in for the actions of their government for at least the last sixty years. Longer, if you include the centuries of land theft, genocide, slaving, pillage, and terror. All of these acts were sanctioned by a government that was elected, supported, and funded by American citizens. This is who they are. The presence of a few friendly faces in a sea of greedy, rapacious cunts doesn’t change much.
That’s got the same energy as a cop showing up to protest the term “ACAB”.
Don’t like hearing it? Fix it. And that doesn’t mean reposting shit to your echo chamber of choice. That doesn’t mean standing with a sign. If you haven’t lit something on fire you’re part of the problem just like all the “good cops”.
Okay, thanks!