The US needs to change and so does much of the rest of the world. The two aren't mutually exclusive and much of the problem as it now exists can only take this current visage because of both national and international groundwork laid before. Whether or not this country is capable of positive change, that change alone would not be enough to prevent this from happening again. We know this because, in different ways and at varying levels of effectiveness, what is happening in the US is also happening in a plethora of places all around the world, right this moment, for basically all of the same reasons and purposes.

As the person you responded to already illustrated, the problem is larger than any one country, and looking away from that is just as in the way of progress as the countless shitheads among my own countrymen who refuse to stand up against what cruelties this nation is currently enacting.

So, yes. US citizens definitely do need to do their part. We have a lot of shit to sort over here. But that doesn't make it helpful to pretend that we are the only number in this elaborate equation. The wealthy dirtbags who've put us all in this position benefit off of treating it as such, as this allows them the same freedom to keep at it, but this certainly does not make it true. If the US were to properly fall and the current administration was erased along with it, do you really think this problem would be over? Don't you think the stateside billionaires pushing for all of this would just leave and continue on elsewhere? And what of those who ar not and never were based here?Us dipshit US rednecks aren't stopping all of them from all of that, no matter how this all ends up going down. Not on our own, at the very least. Because, in spite of our outsized effect on the globe, the problem is much larger than just us.

Fucking hot take from someone that doesn’t think about the stupid shit they say.

So my family is here literally because both grandparents escaped the Nazis. I’m not fucking here because of genocide in america, im here because of genocide in europe!

A genocide EUROPEANS didn’t handle let alone Germany!

Your words are meaningless. You don’t think about what America IS. Who really lives here!

That’s BEFORE the fact everyone took advantage of our military might while telling their citizens how much better they were because look at the cheap healthcare and education!

While they peep on the data of millions for the eyes of the surveillance state that is the USA in secret. For shame on everyone.

America is a fucking joke. Every American is at fault for all of the ills of the world. So fucking easy to be you, isn’t it? Offload all that bandwidth to people you don’t know, to think you’re above over a hundred million people. More people than most countries have in the usa and are against this. They vote in people who lied to them about leading them through this. All of our fucking allies helped in this charade!

Everyone is to fucking blame.

There were only Native Americans before America was 'founded', so who exactly stole it, remind me?

I don't remember having a say in Citizens United, or the defense contracts of other countries. I can say I've voted for every politician on my ballot that promised to challenge CU and/or reduce military spending though. But those votes aren't always democrats so half the time people tell me I waste my vote for it.