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I had another coworker ask me today "Why is America so? Why don't you change it." My reply was to the extent of "We the people are cowards" but it goes deeper than this and I had a rather stunning realization today. We are told when we move our military or perform a coup we are "helping". There's a consistent saviour complex associated with our military. It is not a saviour. It is not good. It's a military industrial complex not a moral codex or religion. Our military is one of the greatest destabalizing elements on this earth. Not communism. Not Russia. not Islam. Not pinko commie fags. The US fucking military. And this goes so deep that when we have problems we will seek outside help and play helpless. We'll think the UN will intervene. Not only is the job of the UN NOT military intervention, it hasn't really intervened anywhere since it was made. It's a peace keeping referee force for after a conflict has already ended. Also the largest part of the UN military is THE US MILITARY. Would it make a difference to you if US troops occupied your home town but this time with a UN on their helmet? But I had a secondary thought today and that's the burn it to ash mentality. That we should burn the US to ash. Every system. Every building. We bring ourselves to the stoneage and that's progressive? And I realized, this was the alternative to the Marshall plan. The alternative to building Germany up was burning it down and robbing them of industry. Progressive. And every single time we perform a coup or flatten a country with tomahawks it's always about bringing liberty, equality and justice to the unjust. That's progressive. That's liberalism. That's America. Obviously that's not the case and it's why there are so many weird over the top flaming revolutionaries in the US and so many more reformers in the EU. It's not marxist praxis. It's US war dogma. It's US propaganda and it's one of the reasons we sit on ass and wait for the UN to come, or think that we should burn it all down and start over. It's US propaganda we have mistaken for egalitarianism. These are fundamentalist farms. They breed radicals like ISIS. This isn't progressive or fiery passion, it's a misread of US Propaganda. Iranians are willing to die in the thousands but we're still convinced activism is hiding behind a keyboard, shooting down the trenches, performing purity tests we would never pass ourselves. Maybe it's past time we started saving ourselves, instead of waiting for France to step in like the did in our revolutionary war. Nobody is coming to save you. That whole idea of a saviour nation that will come in and magnanimously save us is just what we are told the US does. It does not. We are responsible for our own countries.