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Such a shame to insult Americans lack of historical context while also seeming to insinuate the world was some sort of idyllic utopia prior to American engageme
by codyb 7y ago
Such a shame to insult Americans lack of historical context while also seeming to insinuate the world was some sort of idyllic utopia prior to American engagement.
How about we don’t forget that the entire world has pretty much been a gigantic warzone ever since civilization started and how about we remember that American hegemony has been the single most peaceful period of world history.
I’m not even trying to insinuate America should be some great arbiter of what is good and holy, but the fact of the matter is, people have been slaughtering eachother since communities became a thing, and only recently has it become so infrequent that people can go “oh! Look how America fucked up by bombing someone here!”.
As if, without America, there wouldn’t be regional conflicts pretty much everywhere, just like there literally always have been.
- raxxorrax 7y agoI think you are both correct. But that only highlights the question about whether we can trust chip manufacturers. I currently tend to say yes, but I would still prefer to buy the American one.
- orbifold 7y agoThe Europeans are just salty they can’t fuck around with as much of the world as they used to.
- coldtea 7y agoWell, I'm of the smaller European countries that were fucked around by those Europeans colonial powers, so there's that... But if you think it's some badge of honor for your country to "fuck around much of the world", and you think only bitterness for not being able to fuck colonies etc, as much as before is why anyone would oppose it, sure, more power to you...
- coldtea 7y ago>Such a shame to insult Americans lack of historical context while also seeming to insinuate the world was some sort of idyllic utopia prior to American engagement. The world doesn't have to be an "idyllic utopia" not to want another player meddling on other countries business -- much less a 10000 pound gorilla one... >How about we don’t forget that the entire world has pretty much been a gigantic warzone ever since civilization started and how about we remember that American hegemony has been the single most peaceful period of world history. If we forget the Cold war, its proxy hot wars, meddling and support for dictatorships (Iran, Banana republics, Chile, etc) and the associated death toll, and so on. Including a few possible close calls for hundreds of millions (Bay of Pigs for one). And the relative peace is not because of some protective attribute of "american hegemony" (and e.g. its benevolence), but because the few other major players (basically colonial opressors like UK, France, etc) got burned in the 2 world wars and got off the main game, so no great fights between them anymore...