• Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club
    30·
    2 days ago

    “Putin is behind this, he literally spends 10b$ in orange makeup every tuesday/thursday/saturday so he can play Trump, on Monday he plays himself and occasionally on Sundays to blow off some steam he plays Kim!”

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    504·
    3 days ago

    Reporter: [REDACTED]
    Reason: This anti-American trend in non-political communities needs to stop. Political content outside of political channels sucks in general.

    👉 [email protected]

  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
    128·
    2 days ago

    I would argue that he isn’t that American. He is a parody of America, he is every joke people made about America over the years turned literal

      • juliebean@lemmy.zip
        36·
        2 days ago

        he was elected twice, sure, but in the first case, he lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes, and in both case, he didn’t get a majority, and the majority of americans didn’t vote either way at all.

        it’s bad, but no matter how you slice it, trump voters make up less than a quarter of the US population.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      221·
      2 days ago

      There’s like < 10 current countries founded on settler colonialism.

      The US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand are the main ones

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        2 days ago

        What about like all of latin america? Where they not colanised by spain?

        • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
          5·
          2 days ago

          There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:

          “When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”

          Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.

          And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.

            • orc_princess@lemmy.ml
              2·
              3 hours ago

              Depending on the place and period, yes. In Argentina there were definitely genocides against indigenous people and also mass immigration, but it’s also complicated because even here we have considerable indigenous blood and too many Argentinians don’t wanna reckon with it. Depending on the region some folks have 1/4 or 1/2 indigenous heritage, about a third is estimated to be mixed like that.

              All that said Argentina is quite racist, not talking about online trolls or some dumb shit that isn’t representative of the country, people are generally friendly to foreigners, but we’re still a racist country because there’s racial profiling of indigenous people, our elites identify as white European, our media would have you believe that everyone here is white, you get better opportunities if you’re white, etc. Some Argentinians believe that just because our police doesn’t terrorize people exclusively on grounds of race we have no real racism and we only have classism, but most of those Argentinians are white.

              I do believe we’re a settler colony, we benefit from living in stolen land, even if the vast majority of us are recent arrivals, poor and never owned people, we do benefit from being treated better than the original inhabitants of this place, and we benefit more the whiter we are. But this is just about Argentina and my experience, I don’t think it’s universal for all of Latin America, just a part of it.