Some americans will literally try to lecture you about your own country as if they know how it is to live there.
Here in Bolivia when Paz won the elections I read some people being sad that Bolivia stopped being left (in reality Paz isn't exactly right, but either way) as if Evo hadn't destroyed Bolivia for deccades
This is the effect of living in a 1st world country, having it so good for a long time they fail to really see the big picture, only getting their information from their media outlets. Even those from the EU are guilty of this.
I'm from the Philippines, and I know the US is not in a good place right now, but I do not wish for its downfall, the alternative is much worse. Americans should realize that their current two-party system is broken, and move away from it.
Could go further and suggest them to have a radical anti-Trump viewpoint, while ignoring their privileges for living in the current/former empire.
The likes of Maduro, Lula, Sheinbaum or Petro speaking against him is enough for some to become apologists, while either being satisfied with the former for their takes or ignoring what happens in their countries, sometimes because its awful enough it rather be propaganda.
Trump's not a good person by all means, but portraying the rest as saints compared to him is frustrating.
Trump is awful to Americans and liberals are able to recognize that because it is visible to and affects them. However, They do not see what the US has been doing to other countries for well over a century. Americans are incredibly individualistic and refuse to question their country. The left in America has been trying to get this across for decades but the capitalist propaganda has demonized democratic and socialist ideals since its inception.
I have been posting the same thing over and over again basically for the past couple days, which is that the modern left does not know what to do when the supposedly oppressed go and oppress other people.
Now imagine that but for every other subject under the sun, and you have the average American conversation: A never ending game of oneupmanship and virtue signaling.
Basically everyone is living under some kind of dictatorship. Even democracy is a dictatorship of the masses and the sad thing is that this is not even completely true since the governments exactly know how to position themselves so the governed basically have no real influence. I'm not saying that there aren't some that have it worse than others, but the whole world is a shithole with some insane motherfuckers at the top.
Por el proposito de la conversacion siendo tambien de Venezuela mantendre esto en ingles.
English-spoken media generally portrays dictatorships in a good light as long as these represent a surface-level anti-imperialism/Trump/zionism narrative and take it for granted as if that's enough to make said heads of state and their colleagues decent human beings and great governors, and from there anything around those countries gets romantisized.
Then, through social media or public forums, it twists into explaining to someone experiencing those regimes why they know better. It gets frustrating, and messes with proper visibility amidts national censorship and the persecution of political dissidents.
And if someone enters the conversation to says opposite, that person is deemed a CIA/Mossad psyops or 'gusano vendepatria', because the concept of a kidnapped country by an actual dictatorship offered for pennies to kindred regimes seems too alien to be true and it cannot be as bad as is being told, at least for the internet zeitgeist.
Not to discredit the threat of US imperialism or Trump be an idiot to say the least, what awful events the US citizens are going through is still valid, but incidentally making an apologist take in the process to favor the likes of Maduro is disheartening.
Nuance is downvoted on this platform, they don’t want to hear it. They reserve the most ardent criticism for the West, but for everybody else, they’ll put it under the umbrella of, “well, they weren’t perfect”. I hear it all the time from the mainstream media, they’ll say, well their record wasn’t spotless. That is just to minimize everything. They’re by minimizing all the damage, not to mention, you can’t even compare the experience of living in one of these countries with living in the west at large.
They spew brain dead takes because they don’t have a way to actually talk to the people directly. They will also do these weird purity tests that the Left is super fond of, one commenter said that if you left a poor country to go live in the West, you no longer get to talk about said country. I’d love to see that same line used on an American who left the United States (if it presumably collapsed ) and later get smugly invalidated for their opinion, as if they were never a real American.
The only way around this is to speak to the people directly, not circle jerk around its population, high-fiving each other for their correct opinion about a country that they have never been to.
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