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lintillaarchaeologist · 2 years ago

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“America has effectively built a Green Zone in our cultural consciousness, replete with the obligatory Maccas. Our imaginations, memories, and selves have been well and truly occupied, and the schizoid psychic agony of mainlining our nation’s duel nightmares is, more often than not, excruciating.”

I Should Be Able to Mute America

wake up cunts new nobel prize for journalism just dropped

#haha kill me #like to a certain extent I did do this to myself #but also no it’s everywhere #I heard a radio program a few months ago where a journalist I otherwise respect spent an entire hour #interviewing former danish politician minister of justice and minister of science tech and education Søren Pind #about his personal hero and source of inspiration: Ronald Reagan #hvad fuck er der galt med dig Søren Pind?#a couple of years ago I came across another radio program where they were interviewing various danish public personalities #about dreams they had had about or featuring Important Societal Leaders #and yeah some of them had like EU presidents and the Queen [danish #not British]#but mostly it was like Obama #a few had Hillary Clinton too I think?#and yeah Obama is a charismatic man and a world leader or whatever but we are not American?#but also USAmerican politics do have a huge impact on us #almost every war effort we’ve been involved in has been lead by the American military #on a more personal level my mom did a part of her PhD in the US on a Fulbright scholarship #so she has an American accent and taught me English by showing me her favourite tv shows from her time there #it’s just so inescapable #oh to go back and clarify: war within the last 30 years #not every war ever lol #USAmerican cultural dominance wasn’t as big until after WW2 #also they’re a very young country compared to most of Europe #anyway sorry for the long rant please proceed with your day now

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