With the cabal of pedophiles ordering fascist paramilitaries to abduct five year olds off the streets and sending people to secret torture dungeons, while spending as much on the military as the next nine countries combined and explicitly saying that they can and will take whatever territory they feel like, it makes me think that maybe expanding US influence around the globe is a bad thing, and that having some countries willing to act as a counterbalance to that otherwise unstoppable force is a good thing, even if those countries are far from perfect.

In the past I’ve been criticized for “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and that sort of thing. How much more fascist does the US has to get before, “Who could stop the US if it went full Hitler?” starts being a valid concern?

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    And there we have it. I hit a sore spot. How I know this is because I made a fairly flat and innocuous statement.

    The USSR is a poor example of a counterbalance to the US as it engaged in the same behaviours as the US, just with the lie being communism rather than the democratic system touted by the US.

    So, say what you want, your premise has a faulty foundation.

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Don’t be a presumptive piece of shit. Your attitude is exactly what is wrong with the entirety of humanity.

      Guilt by association is something morons and manipulators use. Why do you want to use the methods of morons?

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Oh, yay! Someone else being pissy because I see flaws and am willing to state it.

        Tone police can fuck off.

        Also nice misinterpretation.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 months ago

      There we have what? A consistent stance that the US shouldn’t be able to dominate the entire world?

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        In the past I’ve been criticized for “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and that sort of thing.

        Buds, don’t use the USSR as a counter point to the US as it’s a bad example and a Tankie talking point.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlOP
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          5 months ago

          But surely it’s better to have a balance of power between multiple flawed countries with some ability to keep each other in check, than to have one bad country that can act as a sole superpower and can do whatever it wants with impunity.