Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016?

If you ever conflate a people with a country, you've made a big, dangerous logical fallacy.

I live here because I was born here. That says nothing about my moral character.

I've done what I can as a citizen. It has not been enough. I'm not going to stop.

you can say what you can say about the US (since you got the First Amendment)

I'm gonna be real with you: if I actually went out and said this shit in public, I would be arrested, First Amendment be damned. People are currently being arrested for saying way tamer stuff. I am relying on the simple fact that Lemmy is a tiny anti-capitalist platform that the government doesn't know or care about. Law in binds the poor and protects the rich. It's always been this way, e.g. gun control got implemented after the Black Panthers armed themselves after generations of being terrorized by white gun owners. It's just that Trump and company are too cheap to even lie to you about it anymore.

Don't take this personally, but I truly find appeals to the Constitution as "oh look at the freedoms you're using but decrying" meme to be particularly infuriating. Like I don't oppose freedom of speech, I just want it to actually apply to everyone, and I want there to be negative consequences for fascists who use their freedom of speech to take freedom of speech and literally everything else away from everyone else.

Are you aware of the irony of living in the US in order to decry the country?

Yeah I was born here and I can't get out and stay out. If I could magically get out and stay out, I would leave immediately, never return, and not even say goodbye to anyone in the States until I'm halfway around the world. I wouldn't even sell or throw out my shit, I'd just go and never return. There's zero fucking irony about being born in a shit hole I can't escape.

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Whenever appeals to human rights... it's a pretext for whatever awful bullshit they want to do. is less interested, than literally any other group in all of history so far, in preserving your human rights. They only ever care about human rights when they can be invoked to justify violating someone else's rights.

That doesn't mean I reject freedom or the rights that pays lip service to. From a principled anarcho-communist position, i.e. a position where freedom of speech, freedom of thought, autonomy, consent, and equality are core values, I reject and its bullshit promises because it fails to even attempt these values, only ever using them as a cudgel to destroy people and movements who actually do want to live by these values. And no, there's not a Platonic ideal version of that does implement these promises but is just a handful of bad apples from perfection. has always been a colonizing mission from minute one. You can't fix that. needs to be 100% rejected. No exceptions. No subtlety. Clean break.

rant against the US

You call that a rant? This is a rant! 😆

The only difference is that that in different places their evilness is allowed in different amounts/representation.

Yes exactly. in particular allows for the maximal evil as a function of the maximal ignorance our privilege buys us. There are privileged people in every country, but has a culture which disproportionately exalts the characteristics of privilege, in particular our ability to be ignorant. In short: has a bourgeois culture.

Like if settlers acted even a fraction as ignorant and uncurious as we do in the global South, we would all end up in nameless fucking graves as deaths by ignorance of the world we live in.

It's really not, it's only like a fraction of a second of introspection, but settlers are so uncurious and shallow that everything needs to be spoon-fed to them.

To what, exactly?
You'll rarely find a better link to the total "This Is Fine" arc that covers Harambe.

Do you think we need a real Third Way?

Fair points all around.

You're not wrong.