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
@startea_rn flustered would be an extreme understatement, I sometimes get flustered even if I am fluent:D
and sometimes the words come out so painfully slow that hearing it myself makes me cringe:D but then again, we do not get better if we do not practise
Not trad in the fascist and historically illiterate sense, but in the wanting colorful frescoes adorning my villa walls alongside painted statues of naked men sense.
what up
werde jeweils zwei wochen vor und nach der bundestagswahl mal twitter fernbleiben, sehen uns alle in 4 wochen wieder
twitter is so schon schlimm genug und es wird legit gerade jeden tag worse
wisst ja wo ihr mir sonst lustige witzbildchen schicken könnt
ciao~~~
what up
werde jeweils zwei wochen vor und nach der bundestagswahl mal twitter fernbleiben, sehen uns alle in 4 wochen wieder
twitter is so schon schlimm genug und es wird legit gerade jeden tag worse
wisst ja wo ihr mir sonst lustige witzbildchen schicken könnt
ciao~~~
Die USA sind als Siedlerkolonie auf ethnischer Säuberung gebaut. Dies ist hinter einem heroisch, Weissen, maskulinen Frontiermythos verborgen. Vielleicht sollte man gerade heute daran erinnern.
@ZekiSetTrap @Melaniebelizi Wohl eher zu beschäftigt, Namenslisten unliebsamen Hochschulpersonals zu erstellen, falls das schon in Vergessenheit geraten ist: https://t.co/NbfmYSlHZu