• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless, and just wants to burn it all down.

    I’m okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that. The fact that it can’t meet that goal now for years to come doesn’t change the goal itself.

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      2 months ago

      This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless

      I don’t get that impression. I see someone who doesn’t like how their country runs, and understands the way its run is systematically harmful and ineffective. There’s a huge difference between politically critiquing a country and being a hateful nihilist!

      I’m okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that.

      I think they do too. It just might not be an America as we know it - the problems go far deeper than who is in power. America wasn’t good under Obama, they just hid away the horrible parts very well.

    • Jentu@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Assuming you’re liberal, my god this sounds straight out of the republican “stupid things to say when someone doesn’t fellate America” playbook.