@aral__dup_4490@mastodon.ar.al
Post #641884
2026-03-14 11:47 UTC
Replies (29)
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@bellegraylane@universeodon.com 2026-03-14 15:37
@aral@mastodon.ar.al the choir might be listening here in mastodon land, but the congregation is too busy owning libs on facebook to hear any bit of clear thinking about what the facts have to say.
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@monkyyy@poa.st 2026-03-15 22:17
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Dear eurofag I dont hate trump because he's to extreme, I hate him for being to moderate. Him being mean on twitter was the only selling point that held up over time. I support shipping guns to the uk for those opposed by your migration policys, I want more guns, I want more anger, I want less "respectable bipartisain consciousness with the experts". I would rather slit your throat then endure a single second of your bureaucratic hellscape - mild mannered american
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@ManyRoads@mstdn.social 2026-03-14 11:56
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou might try another speech if you want to break the log jam. Americans have heard yours for decades and as you yourself point out, it hasn't worked, thus far.
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@juh@hostsharing.coop 2026-03-14 11:57
@aral Yes, Trump is the most American President ever.
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@lulu@hachyderm.io 2026-03-14 12:07
@aral There's a similar rhetoric coming from the zionist settlers in Palestine rhapsodizing over some imaginary democracy that their illegitimate colony once had. Even if we set aside everything else, there was a "Military Governance" over the Palestinian citizens until 1 December 1966 and a brutal illegal occupation that started in June 1967 to this day. You could at most speak of 6 months in which this illegitimate entity didn't have an outright military dictatorship. The same is true for the USA. The genocides, slavery, segregation, war crimes and crimes against humanity all over the world. I fail to see the point at which there was anything good about that monstrous empire.
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@nickrauchen@c.im 2026-03-14 12:09
@aral Tough words, but fair I think. We have to start somewhere.
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@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 12:18
@aral Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0&pp=ygUSY2FybGluIHBvbGl0aWNpYW5z
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@FaithinBones@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 12:30
@aral read up on 'The Grande Derangement'. No nation is without villainous moments
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@coleenwalter@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 12:46
@aral I understand your point and share your outrage and frustration. I do feel some of your comments include the fallacy of division. There are many, at great personal and financial cost, fighting book bans, protesting, investigative journalism, standing up for themselves and other vulnerable people. I don’t know whether we are a plutocracy or an oligarchy but individuals are trying to act like sea wall to push back against relentless money and power.
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@jaze@mstdn.social 2026-03-14 12:59
@aral, et.al. Adding some more "nuance" to this issue, specifically within the #USofA, via this extensive #Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States It's clear that the concept of "other/s" was/is defined from the initial colonizers fluid definition of what "we" or "us" is, which includes the integration of some/select "others" into the "us" tribe, i.e. so-called "white" people. Speaking of, I'll re-recommend this #Throughline episode about that: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1155489235/the-whiteness-myth #Thanks4Sharing! 🖖!
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@af@cas.social 2026-03-14 13:34
@aral I was surprised how much the idea of “American exceptionalism” was considered accurate by virtually all US politicians – and then used to justify, among other things, “double standards”.
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@SeanJH@mstdn.ca 2026-03-14 13:45
@aral Indeed. It's fascinating to watch US liberals get angry over Russia assisting Iran in defending itself against an aggressive war by two belligerents. Embedded in the outrage is the pretext that Iranians should simply accept their fate and die under American and Israeli bombs because they shouldn't be able to retaliate against those attacking them.
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@thomkennon@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 14:22
@aral Hard plus ones here, comrade. Well-voiced.🖤✊
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@DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl 2026-03-14 14:53
@aral Unfortunately, Exceptionalism is not going quietly.
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@numodular@c.im 2026-03-14 15:02
@aral Yes, all 8 billion people are the-head-of-a-pin, as has been the countless humans before us. Cookie?
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@beisbolcards@mastodon.world 2026-03-14 15:22
@aral another odd phrase I see often is "we're not a third world country", as if their privilege is meant to shield them from those bad things.
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@thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange 2026-03-14 15:37
@aral shit homie, I know, I grew up with the people.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-03-14 16:19
@aral the folks that need to learn reality say "this is not who we are", but hopefully more of them are realizing it's really "this who we like to think and claim we are". that is a step in the right direction of more accurate. if they can't acknowledge that, they won't be ready to make real change.
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@stonykark@mstdn.ca 2026-03-14 16:20
@aral nah, they had their chance to show the rest of the world they weren't a bunch of nazis who worship a pedophile. It's too late. This is who they want to be.
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@jCarttarBrooke@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 16:45
@aral NOPE Republican Americans did this to the whole world. Did NATO stop Bush? Level the blame where it belongs. Ask every tourist if they believe in democracy or or are they a Republican…
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@baslow@social.coop 2026-03-14 18:13
@aral I highly recommend the videos/substack/soon-to-be-published book of Tad Stoermer, resistance historian. Just as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmIpv3ftEVM
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@bardmoss@autistics.life 2026-03-14 19:33
@aral I'm 73 years old. What you are saying is not how I was raised. The people who hold the beliefs that you are outlining are in the 1%. Most of America is or tries to become what the myth is. We are fighting against our corporate overlords and always have been, since the first Pullman strike in Chicago.
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@carawayseeds@kolektiva.social 2026-03-14 20:55
@aral I def get where this comes from as a response to the USian liberals who see Trump as an exception, rather than a continuation of the colonial violence of the U.S. govt under all presidents since its founding. There are also, as has been said, a great many people with the mixed fortune of living inside U.S. borders that do not identify with the government, have no pretenses about its past, and experience the violence of the USian state in a way that is different from those overseas, but very much intertwined. If the liberals are going to hear you and wake up to the nature of the U.S. government, I think I would rather they join the rest of us - as individuals who don't identify with our government, but fight back against it because colonizer nations cannot coexist with peace and freedom - than have them continue to identify with their government but now from a place of guilt and with a need for atonement or redemption. "The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
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@unusnemo@friendica.rogueproject.org 2026-03-14 21:36
@aral Welcome to my block list, you are so misguided, but thank you for sharing just how far off of reality you are.
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@Voline@kolektiva.social 2026-03-14 21:54
@aral I am not the United States. Nationalities are a con.
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@audioflyer79@mstdn.social 2026-03-15 14:25
@aral This is how I’ve been feeling every day since November 2024.
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@Dubbub@detroitriotcity.com 2026-03-15 16:31
@aral nigger, your parents named you anal. Please kys
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@alexmussolini88@detroitriotcity.com 2026-03-20 03:31
@aral you dropped your coins nigga: :cp_token: :cp_stack:
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@Orca@nya.one 2026-03-14 13:31
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Same feeling when I saw people watching horrible atrocities being committed and says "they aren't human". No, they are.😑