Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence
  • @kingie_d@feddit.ukEnglish
    32•8 days ago

    Americans are the only people in the world that thought that America was the leaders of the free world

    • @Shezzagrad@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4•7 days ago

      Facts, even Europeans citizens were aware America was just the new imperialist throwing it’s dong around

    • @arun@ani.social
      15•8 days ago

      Exactly. It blows my mind just how narcissistic and delusional a country could be. Half the world already hated them before the Tangerine Turd took over. And for good reason.

      • @Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
        7•8 days ago

        You might remember a certain thing called the Cold War? Which was about the world divided in TWO, because most countries aligned with EITHER the USA OR the USSR? And even then there were unaligned countries.

        Now you might say: 'ugh, they don’t count, because we “won” '.

        But that is itself an admission that it wasn’t that way before you “won”.

    • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      6•7 days ago

      Then why can’t I buy a BYD car in the US? Why can’t a concert venue sell tickets without paying protection money to LiveNation? Why can’t all merchants transparently display and pass through all the fees that Visa, MasterCard etc. charge them? I could go on all day, the USA is not a free market.

    • blaue_Fledermaus
      2•8 days ago

      In theory the capitalist “free market” was supposed to mean that customers are free to choose, it was supposed to be a better alternative to the monopolies of mercantilism.

  • @MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
    22•8 days ago

    After we polluted the rest of the world for our trinkets.

    I still don’t understand how these people are not being held accountable. As a veteran, it makes me feel discraced I even bought into the propaganda.

    Granted, this was pre-internet. It was much easier to brainwash people then.

    • yeehaw
      6•8 days ago

      Wouldn’t it be easier now with the ease of online manipulation?

      • @4am@lemm.ee
        14•8 days ago

        Both yes and no. If you fall into an algorithmic rabbit hole, you might never see the truth- they’ll just throw bullshit at you to keep you engaged. This is being abused at an alarming rate to metaphorically zombify people into angry little brownshirts.

        On the other hand, we can witness the atrocities in Palestine; we can see the mobs of settlers beating people out of their homes, we can see videos of indiscriminate collective punishment via weapons of mass destruction, and we can see the shitposting IDF soldiers do on social media bragging about the rape and violence they did today. We can watch Trump lie and get fact checked in real time, or witness them try to sanewash the insanity we just witnessed live.

  • LaserEnglish
    14•8 days ago

    Murica rolled over with a whimper!