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  • I worked with a guy, who grew up in the US Deep South. He told me he joined the marines after Sept 11, 2001 to (and this is the quote he used) to get revenge on, and kill the “ragheads” that attacked his country.

    He told me the cure for his racist idiocy was going to Afghanistan and meeting the people there and discovering they’re just normal people like the ones he knew back home and it wrecked (and fixed) his world view.


  • I don’t think it’s hard for outsiders to understand. I think it’s harder for Americans to understand. Those of us on the outside can see it easily and obviously. And it’s not subtle.

    In the movie U-571, it depicts the Americans capturing the first enigma machine, thus helping to lead to an end to WW2. The reality is, the Royal Navy had them before the US even entered the war.

    As a Canadian, I know that we were heavily involved with freeing the Iranian hostages, but if you watch the movie Argo, you would think the United States did everything. Jimmy Carter, President at the time of the event, decried the movie saying that Canada did 90% of the op.

    The Great Escape portrays the escape from Stalag Luft III as an American affair, when it was a Commonwealth operation, and not a single American escaped.

    Black Hawk Down. If you watched the movie, you would think the rescue was done by US forces, completely disregarding the fact it was largely Pakistani and Malaysian forces that rescued the American service people.

    That’s not even getting into the non-war movies where the US is represented as the ultimate moral authority in all things.

    How about the “World Series”, where with the exception of one team, every one is in the United States.

    Co-opting the term “American”. The Americas includes more than just the USA. Mexicans, Argentinians, Canadians, Hondurans, Columbians, etc. are all “American”.

    Even the implication that no one outside the United States would understand how bad the propaganda there is, is American exceptionalism.












  • Everything ICE/DHS did/does (officially, not murder), was done before ICE existed. It was created for the purpose it’s fulfilling now. INS and USCS already existed.

    The point of the creation of DHS (and by extension ICE) was to give the Bush admin a way to utilize the over-reaching powers they granted themselves after the World Trade Center. Because they believed in a Unitarian executive, they wanted all power under the Presidents direct control, and out of agencies that may not go along with their agenda.

    Well, the beast ate it’s own fucking tail didn’t it.