American exceptionalism is ingrained so deep in most people here that they would never even consider or doubt why the world pays attention to them, just: "Duh of course they do, because we're America!"
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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Correct. I think the entire premise that an American would question this idea is an indication that the meme was made by somebody from a country with one of these pins in it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this mindset. I am myself an American making this observation with a sense of shame and mild horror.
Yeah, I abolutely agree. In American culture, this is treated more like a natural law, like the Sun rising each day or objects falling down when dropped. It is just something self-evident and isn't even a thought that occurs in most American's heads.
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Americans run around moralizing while exploding everyone. They impose their views and politics into every country on earth. But if you criticized them for being idiots who allowed Trump to win, they tell you "you're not even American!" As if American stupidity doesn't affect the rest of the world. And this is the kind of shit I'm hearing from the American left now the side that was supposed to be smart and reasonable, and you know, not racist or xenophobic. But they've also gone toxic extreme as well. Americans are nuts.
I think there should be a major distinction between Democrats/neoliberals/however you want to classify them and "the American left"/progressives.
They often fall under the same tent because progressives do not have another substantial place in American politics, but I think these are 2 different groups with different beliefs and ideas.
But if you criticized them for being idiots who allowed Trump to win, they tell you "you're not even American!"
Not from me. Anyone who voted for Trump or sat around to let him be elected is a fucking moron.
I learned in 2016 I had too much faith in my fellow citizens. There are many, many stupid people here.
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Dear Earth,
The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.
Zero fucks about climate change.
Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.
I apologize.
I wish y'all the best.
The US doesn't have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?
Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them
Certainly does. My father-in-law served up there, which he thought was a much better assignment than Vietnam. It was pretty important for early ICBM detection from Russia, since the shortest path to the continental US is through the arctic circle. Still is, so yes, there's bases up there.
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take note canadians
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Imagine if China had bases like that
If you do a search for "are there secret chinese police stations in canada", would that count?
Not to be a china apologist, but overt military presence in the form of missiles and boots on the ground is very different from clandestine operations abroad. Basically all major powers have the latter. What do you think the CIA is?
If you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations, then yes, but imagine they have soldiers and illegal weapons and claim to be ensuring stability of the region
Americans: Why don't foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?
My first thought was to wonder if we'll try to buy Greenland again.
Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already...
Sorry, World. 😑
If the US bought Denmark, they'd probably get Greenland with it. Just saying.
(now some idiot is probably going to try this)
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America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.
Americans: "Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we're a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don't care about French elections, why would they care about American?"
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The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.
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Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol
I’ve never once wondered this.
Seems like they just hate industrious hard working war mongers. Can't a warlord catch a break?
To be fair the red balloons shown are much less deadly than American military bases.
This looks like Russian/Chinese propaganda or just lazily photoshopped image.
Actual map of US military bases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations#/media/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg
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