#American exceptionalism

[sataniccapitalist]

[hussyknee]

[alethianightsong]

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.

[padawan-historian]

electing a brown skinned cop who uses imperial feminism to reinforce American exceptionalism all while she backs the same colonial projects and state funded violence that allows for the re-criminalization of poverty, the erasure of civil rights, and the expansion prison industrial complex is not a win.

there are a multitude of ways and workings to disrupt, divest, and dismantle the master’s house. kamala winning this election doesn’t fix this lovecraft country. kamala winning this election means a return to our communities to manifest direct action, collective liberation, and radical abolition that upRoots fascism, imperialism, and white supremacy from our gardens.

[colombinna]

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™.

[thesobsister]

Elections are funny things, ain't they? Sometimes, the "demos" in "democracy" says, hey, wouldn't it be cool if we just drove off this precipice at high speed? And then they do it.

So, first of all, a shout-out to all those folks who just had to vote third-party or didn't even vote at all due to their very principled stance; if these chucklefucks didn't learn how "they're both the same!" didn't make sense back in 2016, well, boy howdy, are they in for a lesson now. As a result of their (in)activity and the general electorate's unwillingness to pick a Black woman over a white dumpster fire, we will be going through a period of trial. How bad it'll be and how long it'll last, we don't know, but it'll have two important effects, I think.

First, it'll disabuse the few remaining innocent souls of the notion that Providence is guiding the fortunes of the United States. It is not. Providence is a city in Rhode Island, not a Magic Pixie Dream Girl who talks us out of our worst ideas and keeps us moving up up up. "American exceptionalism" is founded, to a great extent, on this notion, and the sooner we shove a head of garlic in its mouth and stake it through the heart, the better. There's nothing keeping the U.S. from running off the rails, yet pretending that the Almighty has an Extra-Special Plan for this country means that any dumbfuckery is tolerated because it'll all Turn Out Right in the end. Reader, it has not.

Second, the upcoming administration will likely leave the country an expanse of smoking ruins from the rocky coast of Maine to the sun-washed shores of Californ-i-ay. I expect that, for a variety of reasons, the incoming president may not serve his full term, thereby setting up the early ascent of his vice-president, the candidate the far right really wanted. This, likely, will not end well. My fervent hope is that, after the unpleasantness that will almost certainly ensue between now and this period's end—and it may be longer than four or eight years; we had to deal with Reagan-Bush for 12 years, and that seems like a walk in the park compared to the situation facing us at the moment— we will have learned enough to rebuild in a way that speaks to our society's real needs.

So, grid your lions, folks, help each other out, and lean on those you trust. Let's get through this together.

[peridot-tears]

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."

[cannibal-rainbow]

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

[icequeenlila]

MAKE DESTIEL GREAT AGAIN!

[feminist-space]

I'm irritated by commenters who complain about and "correct" language used by others, when their own understanding of language variations in the world is so limited.

These commenters are complaining about the video creator using "learnt" -- they rudely tell her that it's "learned" and she needs to "learn how to spell." They apparently do not know that "learnt" is perfectly correct spelling in British English. It doesn't ever occur to them, hmm, maybe there's something outside of what I know in my immediate world.

American sometimes maybe Amerishouldn't, tbh.

[sataniccapitalist]

[hussyknee]

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.

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Where the soul of man never dies.

The Wolf’s Sun recordings with Sam Phillips are one of the sources for the deep and mighty river that is American music.

This music is so far beyond anything those lovable Mop Tops could conceive of that comparison is unfair.

Uncle Kite’s Yellow Octopus Submarine? God bless.

[wanderingmind867]

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.

[propalahramota]

AMERICAN ALPHABET