2026-10-01 02:57 UTC
Replies (12)
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@magnetosphere@fedia.io 2026-10-01 03:46
Humans are slow learners. We have been doing this shit to ourselves for way too long.
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@Sergio@piefed.social 2026-10-01 04:16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States
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@Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-01 05:04
I’m guessing they’re not big readers at PragerU…
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@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 2026-10-01 05:16
I mean, if you’re fine with genocide, with war crimes, mass killing, unethical experimentation with people, racism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, religious fanaticism and probably a bunch of other “cool” things I’m forgetting, sure. The US must look really cool to you. Right now, the US look good only if you see them with the lens of someone who lived 3000 years ago when all those things were somewhat fine. But for sane humans, that flag symbolizes so many wrong and evil things that might as well be next to the other worst flags of human history.
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@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 06:35
When somebody angrily tells you to go read a book, the book usually refutes whatever they’re saying.
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@wylinka@szmer.info 2026-10-01 06:40
It’s comparable to the nazi swastika. Just like the union jack.
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@Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-01 06:53
Prager U continuing to be shitty beyond belief. Whats new.
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@OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-01 23:50
I’ve reached a point where I can’t even list all the bs. I don’t even have to go international. I can just think about a dozen different half-remembered bs off the dome that happened here locally. I’m not fully versed in history, but I’ve also gotten to the point where I know enough to realize that humans suck. The ones that don’t are always destroyed by the ones that do. That scientist in 12 Monkeys had a point.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 18:42
The USA is just as bloody as its parent, the UK, and they’re both as bad as other nations with an Imperial past. I don’t see any one as “worse” than the others. I don’t know all of world history, there’s always more to learn, but every empire I’ve researched devolves into this at some point. But, even small countries like Belgium manage to wreak havoc. This is why government needs to be limited, in my opinion. Governments are killing machines, and the bigger they get, the easier it is. Just like people, governments require rules to limit them or its madness. I think the USA, Russia, and China all have the same problem, they’re too big for their own good.
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@mechoman444@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 14:10
At one point, the American people fought for their freedom from what they considered an oppressive and tyrannical authority: the English Crown. The American flag, in that context, came to represent resistance to arbitrary authority and the idea that government ultimately derives its legitimacy from the people. And the Founding Fathers were not, as Prager would have you believe, a monolithic group of devout, orthodox Christians. Many were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment, Deism, rationalism, and religious skepticism. Some rejected core doctrines of Christianity outright. Calling them atheist would be historically inaccurate, but portraying them as a uniformly God-fearing Christian movement is equally misleading. The irony is that when some Americans look at that same flag today, they see it as a symbol of the very kind of powerful, oppressive authority that the American Revolution was fought against. The difference is that ordinary people today don’t have the same practical means of challenging their government that the revolutionaries ultimately resorted to. So if anyone needs to do a little more historical research, Prager might want to start with the people who actually founded the country.
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-10-02 02:57
the entire world throughout human history has gotten where they are by conquering the neighbors, including mass murdering them, enslaving them, and forcing them to obey them or die. thankfully, that has tapered off a lot in the last half century but thats not really long enough to be certain it wont keep going
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@Furbag@pawb.social 2026-10-01 23:19
God I hate how shitter puts the reply on top of the original post so when you read it from top to bottom like a normal human being it feels like a Jeopardy question.