• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s those fucking illegals who came over on the mayflower that caused this

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      12 hours ago

      had the native american’s been smart enough to build a wall across the ocean… none of this mess would have happened.

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        11 hours ago

        Powhatan should have 💀 them as they came ashore. That’s one thing I would fix with a time machine.

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    11 hours ago

    It’s not necessarily foreigners, but rather billionaires that are the problem. They bought off and corrupted government officials long ago, and directed them to perform heinous acts to line their pockets further. The rich have got to be stopped in order for things to get better. I’d prefer to simply tax them out of existence, but there are other means available…

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      11 hours ago

      The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It’s rotten to the core.

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England. This is a human problem, not a national one.

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          George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

          It’s not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

          Most countries were not founded in this way.

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    12 hours ago

    Lots of populist European parties are doing the same and are actually gaining votes by blaming everything on the immigrants.

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    14 hours ago

    It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

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      14 hours ago

      The author Domenico Losurdo uses the term mutual demystification a lot, especially in Liberalism - a counter history. When two parties accuse each other of being hypocrites, it often ends up showing that they both are.

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        14 hours ago

        I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

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          When people are not brain dead by media, both in the US and EU we know all of our problems comes from our own government and fat CEOs.

          Foreigners are just one of the many scapegoats they put the blame on.

          What it reminds me of is Greeks and then Romans calling them barbarian, from barbar meaning foreigners. This isn’t new…

          The problem always was power and the unfit nature of human beings to possess it.

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    12 hours ago

    Republicans do, but they blame them on the wrong foreigners. The foreigners causing most of the problems are Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami, and a few others.

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      11 hours ago

      Republicans do

      Democrats frequently blame all of the USs problems on Russians.

      Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami

      All three are literally US citizens, and Ramaswamy was literally born in Ohio.

      I see that American liberals are white nationalists now.

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        10 hours ago

        I’m not a liberal. I just call the rot where I see it, and suggest it be cut out. Where’s Mario’s brother when you need him?

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        10 hours ago

        Unfortunately. I’d love nothing more than to be able to move my family out of the US.