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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Why is lemmy filled with this?

What do you want from this interaction?

Do you want them to feel shame for not seeing the truth you've seen? What are you trying to accomplish?

Things are bad. Things are getting worse. People are learning this in real time, and the endless commentary of "it always has been" and "nothing's new" is not helpful or productive. It doesn't even make sense. People are coming around to your point of view - that things are bad. Maybe, as they learn why and how things are bad, they will learn about some of the things that have always been bad, but they won't learn it from a comment like this.

Things are bad. Things are getting worse. We don't need more cynicism and apathy. We need to help people understand that things are bad, and things are getting worse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What do you want from this interaction?

Presumably, making people understand that the US (and western Europe) represent the most evil shit imaginable in the past 5 centuries including essentially the genocide of the entire continent of America and the colonisation of the entirety of south america, Africa and most of Asia, and that at no point was it worth dying for.