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sataniccapitalist · 2 months

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colombinna · 7 months

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Don't really know how to say this but thinking that the democratic party and that Joe Biden are the most pro-trans and pro-queer politics can get is why you're constantly begging for scraps. For the love of god your american exceptionalism is hurting YOU at this point, for ONCE please look at REAL leftist movements in the global south, look at the real achievements on politics and legislature that queer leftists on the global south have accomplished in the past few decades and then you may finally realize that the reason you're forced to depend on a broken non-democtactic bipartidary system without any real leftist representation is that you're taught to think that what you have is the best by the sole reason of being the Great United States of Murica™.

#politics #american exceptionalism #leftism #trans rights #queer rights #queer politics

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alethianightsong · 5 months

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Bioshock: Why Individualism is a shitty philosophy to build society on

Bioshock 2: Why Collectivism is a shitty philosophy to build society on

Bioshock Infinite: Why American Exceptionalism is a shitty philosophy to build society on.

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hussyknee · 9 months

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I need someone to explain the Banana Discourse on Twitter in small words. I might be wrong, but far it looks like an argument between

Western communists deciding the economic reorganization of South America towards "self-sufficiency" by taking away the USAmerican demand for bananas, and

White liberals insisting that South America is better off with the US buying bananas from them because collapsing the industry (somehow) would take away jobs.

Because boycotts totally work, nobody else eats bananas, those are the only two options, and South American people don't have any opinions about their own economy. Pick your imperialist.

Edit: Just found out the discourse is because "we must give up bananas for the good of South American socialism" lady brought up her cocaine habit as evidence that she wasn't moralizing pleasure. On being told that the cocaine trade fuels violent crime by drug cartels across South America, she tweeted:

The nightmares of bananas and cocaine production have nothing on the take industry by the hell nexus between white women and Tankies.

#i've deleted all the posts I've reblogged by that Marxist guy #also like...you realize you can talk about multinational corporations human rights violations #and the need for tighter regulations‚ anti-trust laws #and ecological conservation help #without making it all about whether US consumerism is good or bad right?? right???#anti communist #western leftists #tankies #imperialism #colonialism #american exceptionalism #ethnocentrism #twitter discourse #knee of huss

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peridot-tears · 2 months

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The way that Europeans in particular say "this is US-centric" or "typical Americans" when someone (usually a white person) acts ignorant or has privilege in another country (usually outside of Europe, the US and Canada, Australia and New Zealand) as a knee-jerk reaction is actually a sign of a much deeper issue.

(Buckle up, when I say "Europeans" in this post, I mean specifically Western, Central, and Scandinavian Europe. The ones with the history of colonialism and imperialism and the strongest, most influential economies and education systems. I know Scandinavia didn't colonize the Americas, but your education and welfare systems are so high-ranked, there's no excuse for the ignorance you display. Sorry boo.)

I never get mad about people insulting my country, because quite frankly, despite being born and raised in the United States, this is the same country that's committed hate crimes towards me and my neighbors and put its imperializing little hands on our ancestral homelands. We're the ones fighting every day to make this stupid-ass country a better place.

The reason Europeans defaulting to "America stupid" is such a horrible way to respond to a westerner acting out isn't because I'm in denial of American exceptionalism, but rather because Europeans exhibit the same behaviors, and by pushing it onto another country, shift any accountability for those behaviors aside, never to address them, let alone correct them.

There's just something so ironic about Europeans dubbing two entire continents with rich, ancient civilizations "the New World," systematically wiping out the thousands of cultures here and coercing everyone to live by their own...and then turning around and laughing at the mess they made, using it as a scapegoat for when they don't want to confront the terrible things they're still doing. They're pointing at the mirror and laughing at their own reflection. "I didn't do that, they did."

#europe #us #tears falling like peridots #american exceptionalism #eurocentrism #imperialism #also all these posts that have nothing to do with america getting the “ew us centrism” treatment from europeans like way to show your asses

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cannibal-rainbow · 5 months

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the steps of curing exceptionalism for USAmerican leftists:

Baby step: America is not the best in everything

Hardcore: America is not the worst in everything

Impossible: America is not relevant in everything

#american exceptionalism #bonus exercise: stop using imperialist symbols aka hammer and sickle to be edgy in your local scene #like that symbol has nothing to do with you and everything to do with continued imperialism and colonialism in asia and europe

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odinsblog · 6 months

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#lol #accurate #whitewashing history #american exceptionalism #jingoism #revisionist history #historical revisionism

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wanderingmind867 · 8 months

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I hate the Hollywood culture. America often seems to revere Writers/Actors/Executives/ etc as gods. And I dislike that. People from places outside of America are encouraged to come to LA or to NYC to make it big. In this way, a new form of american exceptionalism poaches talent from other countries. It's despicable. I hope these strikes crush this hollywood machine, but I doubt it will. This is still all happening in the US, and I don't think enough Americans hate hollywood for these reasons. So I doubt it.

#sag strike #sag aftra #anti hollywood #anti capitalism #american exceptionalism #in a way #anti america #wga strike #writers strike #actors strike #sag aftra strike #canada

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pixiereblogs · 1 year

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Pixie Recaps Picard | The Last Generation

#star trek picard #deanna troi #beverly crusher #worf #american exceptionalism #earth exceptionalism #the very word is racist

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magnetothemagnificent · 2 years

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Americans thinking that Fahrenheit is objectively more intuitive really do not understand the concept of linguistic relativity.

Like yes, *you* think it's more intuitive because Fahrenheit is the language *you* grew up with.

The fact is, that for most of the world using the metric system and Celsius, which relies on set temperatures and conversions and decimals, Celsius is *a lot* more intuitive to them. It's something that's easily replicable in explaining to students how the measurements work: Frozen water is 0°, boiling water is 100°. Considering that humans can't survive without water, and water is integral to human life, I'd think that's pretty intuitive don't you think?

But again, it's linguistic relativity (and a heavy dose of American exceptionalism) that's causing Americans to think that Fahrenheit is just somehow more "natural". Because of course it seems more natural if it's the language you grew up with.

But here's the thing. Temperature measurements are just as subjective as any other social construct, including measurements and numbers.

Measurements are part of language, and while they do serve a purpose, they can't be more "naturally intuitive" because no language is better or worse than the other. That's colonialism speaking for ya.

Language serves a purpose to communicate. There are an almost infinite amount of sounds the human mouth can make, and an infinite amount of signs (object or concept) to choose from. But because it would be too much for a language to include every range of sound possible, and every sign possible, humans choose from all the possible sounds and signs to make their language. This is why one language can have a word for one concept, while another doesn't have a word for it. Or why speakers of one language can make one sound, while speakers of another can't without extensive practice. But no language is inherently better or worse, or more "natural" than another. Every language is inherently good because it serves its purpose of communication for its given speakers and location. And the same is true for measurements, because measurements are a part of language.

So no, Fahrenheit is not more "naturally intuitive" than any other measurement system, and this rhetoric going around is just repackaged American exceptionalism and imperialism.

#fahrenheit #celsius #celsius v fahrenheit #american exceptionalism #linguistics #linguistic relativity #anthropology #linguistic anthropology #stop saying that one language is better than another

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sataniccapitalist · 1 month

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The plaintiff in Snyder v United States is claiming that when a public official accepts a “gift” from a person or corporation who has benefited from that public official’s actions, that should not be legally considered a bribe

#plutocracy #this is stupid as fuck #american exceptionalism #crisis of legitimacy #pure bribery #banana republic

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luvsjimmyreed · 9 months

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Jimmy Reed: On American Exceptionalism and Identity Politics

Question: I've noticed that the quickest way to piss off both the right and the left is to equate American exceptionalism with other forms of identity politics. Why do you think that is? Jimmy Reed: Well, my lovely, that's a good question. I think I have some idea as to what the answer might be. People, for the most part, seem to agree on what 'American exceptionalism' is. They just disagree on whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. On the other hand, I think there's major disagreement over what exactly 'identity politics' is. For instance, I don't consider Black Lives Matter to be 'identity politics' - as not being harassed and killed by cops is a right that everyone should be afforded, so it doesn't really have anything to do with 'identity'. It's just that, unfortunately, black people do tend to be the largest targets of police violence - so that's why we need to point out that police violence does, in fact, disproportionately affect black people. That still doesn't have anything to do with identity, though. So Black Lives Matter should not be considered a divisive movement. However, acting as if black people need to think or act a certain way simply because we are black is what I would consider to be 'identity politics' - in the same way as acting as if Americans need to think or act a certain way simply because we are Americans, which is a major component of American exceptionalism, is also a form of 'identity politics'. There are some people who might hate us simply because we are Americans, but they aren't as common as some might think. There also isn't an epidemic of violence against Americans simply for being Americans - so I don't think we need an American-specific movement. So, yeah, American exceptionalism is typically based on feelings of superiority simply due to nation of birth - hence it's a form of identity politics. So a lot of it might come down to a semantic issue. As it stands, I oppose any concept that advocates for any sort of divisiveness - irrespective of whether it's coming from the right or the left. However, I don't oppose movements that help people marginalized by society. So that's my take on this.

#jimmy reed #blues #politics #identity politics #american exceptionalism #black lives matter #anarchism

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thoughtlessarse · 9 days

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As the cost of housing has exploded, so has the number of people experiencing homelessness. And unfortunately, instead of trying to house people, more states and cities are criminalizing people simply for lacking a safe place to sleep. According to the National Homelessness Law Center, almost every state restricts the conduct of people experiencing homelessness. In Missouri, sleeping on state land is a crime. A new law in Florida bans people from sleeping on public property — and requires local governments without bed space for unhoused people to set up camps far away from public services. Laura Gutowski, from Grants Pass, Oregon, lives in a tent near the home where she resided for 25 years. Soon after her husband unexpectedly passed away, she became unhoused. “It kind of all piled on at the same time,” she told Oregon Public Broadcasting. “Flipped my world upside down.” Grants Pass, like most cities today, lacks enough shelter beds to accommodate its unhoused population. It’s now the subject of a Supreme Court case: Grants Pass v. Johnson, which started when Grants Pass began ticketing people for sleeping in public even when there weren’t enough shelter beds. People can be fined hundreds of dollars and face criminal charges “simply for existing without access to shelter,” said Ed Johnson, an attorney for the unhoused residents of Grants Pass. The Supreme Court’s decision will have far-reaching ramifications as communities grapple with rising homelessness and housing costs. If the Court rules in favor of Grants Pass, local governments will get more authority to clear homeless encampments and penalize those who sleep on streets, only exacerbating the problem.

#us #homelessness #criminalisation of homelessness #cost of criminalisation #american exceptionalism #high housing costs #poverty #lack of support

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hussyknee · 15 days

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I don't know what's going on and I'm not sure I want to find out, but I thought the "people seeking self-determination" thing was about Palestine. Iran is very much not seeking self-determination, it's a theocratic state crushing its own people to the extent that some Iranians hate Palestine just because its government is supporting it.

In this instance, the US and its allies are absolutely at fault because they allowed their rabid dog to provoke Iran into open war, which they've been trying to do for entirely too long. But whatever happens is not in fact entirely on them (for God's sake stop glossing over all the other genocidal western nation that lent their enthusiastic support thus far), it's also on Iran because they chose this. Iran is invested in Palestine and helping Hamas and Hezbollah as a proxy war against the axis of Saudi Arabia-Israel-United States (that now seems to be escalating into a direct war) which has been the case for decades, partially because of the ethnic and religious battle lines and partially because of oil and nuclear interests. The United States and Saudi and Israel being evil doesn't mean Iran isn't also evil, especially considering two of its closest allies are Assad and Erdogan, ntm Putin. If you want to deny that they're also all genociders and despots, I can only call down all the curses of their millions of victims and their families down on your head. They matter no less than Palestinians. They matter as well as Palestinians right the fuck now, because being caught between two nuclear powers at open war is fucking terrifying for the whole region, especially Iranians. This is not a victory strike, it's an escalating disaster that might lay waste to multiple Global South countries in a myriad ways.

Someone said that the US left-wing has realized that US exceptionalism and imperialism is bad, but doesn't understand that part of it is centering the US in all world politics and conflicts and seeing the US as special in any way, including as a special evil or oppressor. If you want to be anti-imperialist and decolonial please internalise that all nation states are oppressive, artificial, post-colonial evils, that the US is just one colonizer and imperialist among many, and its fascism nothing unique. Please follow the geo-politics and news of other nations, especially in the Global South. The only special thing about the US is that it has the most military and economic power and too much influence in the Security Council, but that doesn't mean every other military power and SC member is either a puppet or a brave resistance.

Decolonization and anti-imperialism is learning to situate yourself as just one among many, just another settler colony benefiting from white supremacy, just another imperialist, just another nation state headed by power hungry supremacists. Casting every opposing power as a plucky little underdog champion is just your usual noble savage racism out in force, silencing and dehumanizing the people in those countries fighting for their own rights and freedoms.

#american exceptionalism #american imperialism #western imperialism #genocide apologia #iran #world news #decolonization #imperialism #colonialism #global south #racism #fascism #tankies #knee of huss

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 9 months

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By: Keith Woods

Published: Jul 2, 2023

A look at slavery outside of the West

It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively practiced by Europeans.

But the history of slavery outside the West is far more brutal.

The Arab slave trade emerged in the 7th century, 10 centuries before the Atlantic slave trade

Arabs sold Africans to the Middle East for a variety of jobs such as domestic work or harem guards - castrating male slaves was common, causing over half of males to bleed to death

The Arab slave trade was particularly brutal: it's estimated that 3/4 captured slaves died before they reached the market for sale

Historians estimate that between 10 and 18 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders, including women and children taken as concubines.

Arabs did not create the slave trade out of nothing, in fact, enslaving conquered tribes was already common practice in Central Africa when they arrived.

The West African Songhai Empire relied heavily on captured slaves in all levels of society, even as soldiers.

Africans themselves also played a large role in facilitating the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

African tribes conducted raids on rival groups to provide slaves for sale. African middlemen facilitated trade between European traders and African suppliers.

The Arabs also had a slave trade in Europe. Estimates are that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates, who would raid villages in coastal countries like Italy, France, England and Ireland, bringing them to North Africa for sale.

In some cases entire villages would be captured, such as the Irish coastal village of Baltimore, entirely raided in 1631.

These slaves faced a brutal future, engaging in hard labour or sexual servitude, and spending nights hot and overcrowded prisons called bagnios.

Many slaves captured by Barbary pirates were sold eastwards into the Ottoman Empire. Slavery was central to the Ottoman Empire, most towns had dedicated slavery markets called Yesirs.

Slaves came from Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Eastern & Southern Europe.

Sexual slavery was a big part of Ottoman society. Slavic women were popular slaves, and Köçeks became a popular source of entertainment in the 19th century:

These were young boys, usually from European backgrounds, who were circumcised, cross-dressed and trained as dancers.

Hereditrary slavery is recorded in China dating back to the Xia Dynasty in 2100 BC. Africans purchased on the Silk Road were used as a sign of wealth.

After Chinese law began to treat women as property around 1000AD it was common to sell daughters and sisters into slavery.

The Mongols enslaves tens of thousands of Chinese as punishment for resistance.

In the post-Mongol Ming Dynasty, thousands of slaves were employed to do bureaucratic jobs for the government, and rich families also employed thousands of slaves to perform menial labour.

Slavery was common in American civilizations like the Aztec and Maya

Among the Aztecs, slavery was a punishment for a variety of crimes or even failure to pay taxes. Husbands and wives sold each other in times of economic hardship. Slaves were identified by wooden collars.

Slavery was also common practice in the civilizations of South-East Asia.

The Khmer Empire had a massive slave class that did much of the work building monuments like Angkor Wat. Historians estimate 25-35% of the population of Thailand/Burma were slaves in the 17th century.

Slavery also existed among Native American tribes. Slavery was common practice among Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, for whom one third of their population during the mid-1800s were slaves.

Various tribes practiced debt-slavery and enslaved captives of other tribes.

The only difference between these cases of slavery and that practiced by Europeans is that Europeans abolished slavery on humanitarian grounds, and spread this across the globe.

The intense focus on the White role in slavery is a product of widespread Anti-White animus.

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American exceptionalism comes in two varieties: "we're exceptionally virtuous," and "we're exceptionally evil."

Both rely on lying about or being ignorant of history.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/dashboards/schools_dashboard.aspx

And that's just American history. Can you imagine world history?

#Keith Woods #slavery #history #history of slavery #exceptionalism #American exceptionalism #inverted exceptionalism #religion is a mental illness

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usauthoritarianism · 17 days

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OK So Context

I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.

Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.

I let the research balloon. There's just so much.

Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.

Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.

Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.

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