• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I love my country,

    Not even sure how to respond to this kind of vague emotional ideology. When people say this kinda stuff to me in person, I back away slowly.

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      I want America to prosper and I want to protect American values from right-wing radicals that are in charge. I’m very passionate about it. In fact, I live in a red state and I want it to just be better and no longer radicalized by lies and hate.

      I very passionately want America to heal from this illness of hate and apathy.

      If that makes me a bad person, then fuck me I guess.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        Not necessarily bad, but definitely indoctrinated, as many of us once were. The truth is a series of bitter pills, and the government and media aren’t going to offer them to you; they’re going to distract you from them. Which is easy to do, given how bitter the pills are.

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          I’ve been in the process of making a powerpoint-esque presentation to show to my friends who haven’t read any theory and the thought of framing and organizing it as “bitter pills” is super exciting to me. Starting out the presentation with definitions and history would’ve made them fall asleep.

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        American values

        The values of the US settler-colonial project, are native eviction, and genocide.

        The values of the indigenous peoples were not considered worthy to the european settlers, so they did their best to wipe out hundreds of peoples/tribes/cultures. You either don’t know that history, or worse, you are proud of it.

        I highly suggest reading both An indigenous people’s history of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, or her Not a nation of immigrants.

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          I don’t think it can be overthrown today; surveillance of means of communication is now total; their only restriction is the massive amount of data.

          It CAN collapse in on itself, that is inevitable.

          I would be delighted if I was proved wrong.

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            Revolution happens in crisis, it isn’t something you can force. That being said, as the US Empire is deteriorating, this makes it more and more likely to hit a crisis that can turn into revolution every passing day.

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        “American values” are freedom for a few selected individuals, this shit is ass.

        The values that you probably want is incompatible with capitalism and never truly existed in America, you love the idea of it not the reality.