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this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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I don't think there's a good basis for prioritizing things in that order when there are so many more people in other places than there are here, and that hierarchy can also very easily lead to socdem "got mine" thinking.
Childhood is hating amerika. Adulthood is realising you didn't hate amerika enough
The older I get (I ate pizza yesterday and I had heartburn this morning at work) the more I hate America so I find that comment very unrelatable.
Not at all to make light of the utterly awful things happening to people back home, but there's a glaring disparity between what's happening there and our government literally dropping bombs on other countries, having killed over 2 million people in the last twenty years, and the millions before too. Absolutely the problems back home need to be fixed ASAP, but if I told you for example that your father who provides for your whole family was also a serial killer (kills other people, not members of your own family), would your response actually be "we have to take care of our own first, and then stop others from screwing each other!"
Our government isn't 'mean' to other countries, it's basically Nazi Germany to other countries; and the brutality at home will inevitably come about from a government that realized it can kill and oppress its problems away. The oppression student protesters are facing should be considered utterly unacceptable of a party we vote for.