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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can't say Death to America, that's a whole continent, maybe even two. You say Death to the USA, or any other derogatory word you prefer using to refer to them.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

haha I paused on this for a while when making this I usually write USAmerican but I was trying to mock what the guy in the meme would say and they call themselves Americans lol

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I just say Statesian.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

We should split the difference and make the slogan "Death to Amerikkka" that way nobody will be confused about what we're referring to.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is a double standard I wholeheartedly approve of: us shityanks shouldn't call ourselves Americans, but should take sole offense when someone says "Death to America".

It is only fair.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, I do. Thats why I'm saying it.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 13 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What I really don't like is the implication, from the libs, that if the so called "3rd world" showed better optics, that USA would play ball.

And many of the countries did try to play ball. Look where it has landed now... So much for optics.

[–] randomquery@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

it's dangerous to be the us empire's enemy and fatal to be its ally.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what a couple of friends more intertwined in politics said, the optics isn't for nations generally, but for convincing people that don't really care about the issue or vote "with their hearts" whatever that means

I suppose there's some truth to it. It's very difficult to navigate context in post-modern meme culture. Like the words "Death" and "America" could mean anything depending on the context. It also doesn't accomplish much if I make fun of an abuser without stepping in to stop them, many radicals say the "right" things and don't actually do anything. Which is really not much different than someone getting a dopamine rush anything else. So there's time and place for everything imo.

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

AmeriKKKA delenda est

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 week ago

You know what, I'm gonna say it even more

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago
[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry for the serious comment (which is not a reply to OP but something I want to share with my fellow audience).

I think there are 3 distinct cases where someone says something and I think, "hey, that's not fair/true/etc" and feel myself getting defensive. Each case has an appropriate response, in my opinion:

  1. They are not talking about me as an individual, but making sweeping statements - the person isn't talking to me or about me as an individual, no one is asking for my response or thoughts so I can just move on with my life. Maybe the sweeping statement helps me understand my role in systemic oppression (like by simply being north american) and I can reflect on that, but typically it's more of an awareness/learning thing and not actionable until I learn/reflect more.

  2. Same as 1 but + I am not the intended audience - not everything is about me or for me. The intended audience probably has some context I am missing and even if they don't no one cares what my take is, so again just let it go.

  3. If they are speaking about me in particular they are a) either right and I'm reacting with guilt or shame, b) having some misunderstanding and we need to come together to solve the conflict or c) someone I have no relationship/community/duty to and no benefit comes from trying to resolve so I can also just let it go.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

That's a very mindful observation, thanks!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

exactly how you deserve to hear it!

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't risk alienating the elites what would happen if you turn them off. /s

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

all the baby fucking/eating/killing; torturing; and forced castrations makes me think that nothing turns them off. lol

Sounds like music to my ears 🎶

[–] FranklyIGiveADarn@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Americans need a little genocide at home imo. Maybe they'll stop doing it elsewhere once they experience it themselves firsthand.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 13 points 1 week ago

They've had a lot of genocide at home, they're just the ones who did it

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the usian people are very much like the children of a mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don’t want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a firebomb through the living room window.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

btw, the images behind the American are from left to right, top down

mai lai massacre in Vietnam, homeless American, lynched American, lapd beating Rodney king

native massacre, lynched American, ku klux klan rally, American bomb dropping

torture in Iraq, American soldier posing with a child they murdered in Afghanistan

massacre in Vietnam, mass grave of native americans, native americans living in poverty, atomic bomb

electric chair, Epstein, supermax prison, fent addict.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago
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