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Founding Pedos (lemmy.ml)
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[-] BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

How many MLs reading this are Americans?

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago

Ok, cool. I'm asking out of genuine curiosity. How does this post make you feel? You're in the overlap of the targeter and the targeted.

As a show of good faith, let's commiserate. I agree that our "founding fathers" weren't good people by today's standards, but I'm in the camp that their ideas of classical liberalism were fine. I feel shame that our country is built on genocide, slavery and exploitation, but at the same time, I want to hold our current leadership to a higher standard and ahem prosecute them. I understand that you don't agree with classical liberalism, and that's fine, I'm not looking to pick a fight. But I imagine you feel some confusion and conflict as I do?

[-] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 days ago

I’m in the camp that their ideas of classical liberalism were fine. I feel shame that our country is built on genocide, slavery and exploitation

Not an American here, but do you not see the contradiction here? From an outside perspective this reads the same as a German saying

I'm in camp that hitler's ideas were fine. But I feel shame that the riech was founded on genocide slavery and exploitation.

Like I'm genuinely confused here.

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