The United States of America were founded by wealthy slave owners and arch-Stuart reactionaries who rejected their monarch because he couldn’t prevent Parliament from taxing their colony, whose violent settler peasantry just wanted to continue murderously expanding their frontier.
They were one of the last countries to abolish slavery and didn’t become a formal democracy until the 1960s. Their advantage of being a freer and more open society was short-lived and their attempt to build anything resembling a social state crumbled. Instead of a society of mass affluence, they ended up with a barbaric carceral system of historically unprecedented proportions, a top-heavy rapaciously extractive economy, a state thoroughly captured by oligarchic interests.
The last decades have been marked by America’s centrality to nearly every damaging social, cultural and ideological trend. It continues to export its accelerating domestic psychoses to the world. It has become the ultimate destabilising hegemon, blundering around like dying ogre, ever swelling a mountain of rotting corpses.
American isn’t the cause of all ill in the world, but the increasingly nihilistic, zero-sum social culture of contemporary capitalism, that has ramified into every corner of society, is fundamentally American, and the umbilical chord is very much still attached. There is no Post-American world—but with a little luck there will be one day.
Happy 4th of July
@QuetzalThoughts@ThreePlansMan@cljack Brother you're wasting your digital breath.
"Juggalos are beneath your contempt" is a load bearing meme for the whole internet. People aren't going to give up their meme to admit that an ICP track might have some artistic merit.
@Shark3ozero@ruicharadrius I'm sure it's just a mistake that you left off all the groups that make up the overwhelming majority of that 2% that he was obviously talking about.
You wouldn't purposely be dishonest to make his point/ideology seem ghoulish, right?
A Good Person like you wouldn't do that.
@inud0ki @Jeremy_xyz@MizusPuddle He made it up. According to sonic character wiki (I trust their autism) the character is based on Clint McEroy who wrote sonic comics for a while.
@Divyansh_2202@dont__1@Con_Tomlinson Look dude: I was making 9/11 jokes in 2002. I was raised on 4chan back when that meant something. Your memes arent gonna cut it.
What was that other guy's post supposed to mean? I think I see what he wanted to do but from where I'm sitting it looks like another Indian retard.
@LisaDBYL@chrisbrunet@appstate College Athlete is the job. Student athletes have to maintain a certain GPA to be eligible to play sports. So the school offers classes that require little effort beyond "class participation" to keep their grades high so ASU home games can keep making money.