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      5 months ago

      Those kinds of difference goes all the way back to rugged individualism and whatnot. Or, less detailed but not less accurate: Because the US is the US.

      “I heard a phrase once about Americans, so that must be why they’re sliding towards fascism. It definitely can’t be for the same reasons people have pointed to for a hundred years.”

      The fuck would race have to do with anything you really are American.

      Right, right, it’s not that Somalia is Somalia, it’s something in their “culture”? Right?

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          5 months ago

          What are the reasons those pointed-at reasons persist? Why does is that persistence more pronounced is some places, but not others? Can there be a symptom without underlying causes?

          Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.

          But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.

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              5 months ago

              Inequality doesn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

              Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

              What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”.

              That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.

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                  I know you think you’re the smartest person on Earth giving unthinking Americans lessons or something but you haven’t taught me a damned thing here at all except what the German word for neoliberal is.

                  (But, I know, don’t dare call them that!!! 😡🤬 😤)

                  😆

                  Separately, even frequent users of the habitual be wouldn’t write a sentence like that.