• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        You call competent a government that pulled the “special military operation” and led hundreds of thousands of its people into death for not much of anything? You can’t be serious.

    • Meltrax@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      We are not just like Russia.

      We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.

    • Cris@lemmy.world
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      I’d argue we’re a lot more like the British empire in their glory days- exporting authoritarianism, subjugation, and hate globally, for as long as it serves our material benefit.

      We learned from the best 🤷‍♂️