Lemmy has a strong tendency to criticize the US, and a lot of the critiques of certain issue with the US are valid. However, I started getting really tired of opening comment sections in innocuous and non-political posts only to see that someone somehow found a way to criticize the US in it. At first, I started thinking that maybe some Lemmy users are really unhappy and find criticizing a something stronger helped them feel better as if standing up to injustice was a passion of theirs. But, we don’t see them do that with other targets, just the US. The more I notice and think about it, I’m starting be suspicious that some of those users and comments aren’t authentic, but made to create divisiveness in the West and reject the US entirely. In other words, they may be Russian, Chinese, et al. agents working to feed a stream of propaganda in order to further cause chaos and lack of unity in the West as we have seen them do before.

Anyone else think about this?

This is what I’m thinking the game plan is:

  1. Criticize something obviously unjust that the US has done. Ignore that all other major powers have also committed atrocities.
  2. Link and liken it to other US matters & behaviors
  3. Paint the US entirely as evil so that nothing the US can do is just
  4. Attack anyone that supports anything out of the US (we are between here and #3 above)
  5. Create a black-and-white model of geopolitics: US vs everyone else. EU and Russia on the same team lol
  6. West fragments as US and EU relationship dwindle from pseudo-populist movements (e.g. MAGA)
  7. Pick specific countries in the EU to start alienating and repeat the cycle
  8. ???
  9. Profit in special economic zones
  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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    19 hours ago

    We both know why your other comment was removed.

    I just wanted to say America didn’t only practice slavery in the past, it practices slavery right now and you “love it there”. Like what you want. I love chocolate [don’t buy it anymore though] and when someone points out there’s a huge slave trade in it I don’t go: "Honey, the adults are speaking. We are X. We work hard. We take of each other and we love our community " I say “you’re right”. The primary teachers I know don’t treat anyone with that amount of condescention, veiled or otherwise.

    It isn’t more “adult” to ignore the problems of the world. It is, by definition, more ignorant though. Your previous comment called me a child. It didn’t say anything else. Just called me a child, don’t get on your high horse now, no-one is buying it.

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      17 hours ago

      I’ll not “proud to be an American”. I like my peers. I like where I live. I can’t right the wrongs of the world by myself. I do my part and I am at peace with the people around me. I hope you can find that one day too.

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        17 hours ago

        No-one is asking you to. Are you sure you’re replying to the right person? Can you show me where I suggested you should. I gave you an example in my previous comment about a thing I used to love, and still do really, being drenched in slavery. Perhaps use that? Tilt at some other windmill.

        My only statement is that a nation currently practicing slavery isn’t worthy of your love. I suppose you’d put it like:

        “I hope one day you find a less abusive country that might be worthy of your love”