Ancestors

Written by Lana Sinapayen on 2025-01-18 at 14:24

In some ways it was hard to escape. The US are so young than they had no antibodies to recognize fascism when it knocked at their door, so young that they've never experienced knowing they're not the center of the world.. even now they use "un-American" as a synonym for bad! The whole system is unable to deal with any kind of homegrown threat because only external things can be dealt with as bad.

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Written by Lana Sinapayen on 2025-01-18 at 14:28

Countries with an older sense of identity aren't immune to bad politics of course. But a country that gotten rid of like 3 dictators knows what an apprentice dictator looks like and isn't likely to give him a second try, and a country that has made obvious, 100% self inflicted mistakes doesn't use itself as a synonym for "perfection, freedom, and everything good"

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Toot

Written by Lana Sinapayen on 2025-01-18 at 14:40

Hi, I'm Bob. I'm a beefy teenager with lots of money and a big gun, so when I'm in a mood everyone suffers. I'm shutting down the introspection center of my brain when it speaks, because every critic is just a hater, even when it comes from inside of me. Good things are Boblike, bad things are unBoblike.

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Descendants

Written by Anthony on 2025-01-18 at 14:47

@lana@mstdn.science "We're like a giant Rocky 4 movie, it's ridiculous" --Jen Perelman

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Written by 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 on 2025-01-18 at 22:52

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There are millions of American citizens who absolutely, 100% saw this creeping fascism (not so creeping anymore, now more like leaping) and were always critical of the idea that Americanness is even fully definable (or real), let alone a synonym for "goodness."

I find the idea that is the fact that as a nation state the U.S. has a young identity is a cop out; a way to excuse the behavior. I think the national mythos is to blame. Rugged individualism and the shining city on the hill.

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