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  • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    “America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea:  We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.  We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never fully walked away from it either.”

    OK but when I say foreign people’s lives matter as much as American lives so warmongers like Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Biden are mass murderers and should be tried for murder, I’m the crackpot? Are all people evil or not?

    Libs be like all people are equal except for anyone we want to kill

    • refolde [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      “America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea:  We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.  We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never fully walked away from it either.”

      Shut the fuck up Amerikkka was founded on racism and genocide.

    • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      America is the only Nation in the world founded on an idea: We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives

      A blatant lie if there ever was one. America was founded by literal slave owners who were eager to exterminate the indigenous population and steal their land.

      • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Yep and there were even white people who pointed out how absurd it was for the founders to act like they thought all people were equal when they also tortured human beings with chattel slavery. Wasn’t a “times were different” thing, America has just always been evil.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          The one “good” founding father, Paine, was an idealist who’s words were co-opted to further their bourgeois revolt. He died penniless and reviled because he actually believed the equality shit

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I really hate how American politicians use so much American exceptionalism in their speeches. They can’t make a single one without acting like they’re an exception among bottom feeders.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Ho Chi Minh was inspired by the US’ declaration of independence and even included its opening lines of everyone being created equal in the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, and for that, the US slaughtered his countrymen.

    • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.net
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      Well don’t you see, all the people they targeted were evildoers so the collateral damage is easily forgiven! It works for citizens too, just the other day I saw a man threatening someone, a heroic Car Driver went straight into the crowd and settled that mess, may the 15 souls lost find peace.