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0 pointseinpoklum6y ago0 comments

The US mostly tries to project itself as "the good guys" to its own inhabitants, and secondly to the local and international media. But in most of the world you are often faced with the business end of a US-operated or US-financed weapon.

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jorblumesea6y ago

To be fair, it's a spectrum. The US has its share of bodies, but it also doesn't grind its citizens into a pulp with tanks when they protest.

einpoklumOP6y ago

The thing is, its subjects are mostly non-citizens, so it's enough to grind _those_ into a pulp. So far, the US has not seen a popular uprising which threatens the stability of the state(, excluding perhaps that of the native Americans, who were actually ground to a pulp, eventually).

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jorblumesea6y ago

To be fair, it's a spectrum. The US has its share of bodies, but it also doesn't grind its citizens into a pulp with tanks when they protest.

einpoklumOP6y ago

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