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My backwater nation was previously a British colony. Today people who look like me do their best to put other people who like me down. Massacres happen, people

My backwater nation was previously a British colony. Today people who look like me do their best to put other people who like me down. Massacres happen, people live like insects in awful conditions just trying to survive while govt and industrialists operate without any loyalty or care for the country. No wonder people try to immigrate out. The Americans kicked British empire back to their island in the 1700s and imo historically speaking makes me side with them. Especially considering they were successful in 1700s… and on their own with a strategic naval help from Marquis de Lafayette. Again in a world with awful horrible people at least America maintains the order for a far more important role - diplomacy through global trade. The only reason the world has gotten better for so many people all around the world is the last 70 years that America has completely dominated the world stage. Global trade, capitalism, and opening up has made the world objectively better. Even the communists practice capitalism. Or in America they work for Meta/Google/hi tech while pretending to be comrade. And it’s not like those countries were some hippie communes. They were extremely brutal to their own people in some cases, I mean go read about Asian or African histories from just this past 100 years. They did awful shit to their own people and with America nowhere in sight til WW2 Again the world isn’t perfect. You have to place your bets, and mine is that I don’t trust most of the other countries in the world to do better than what the USA has accomplished thus far. It’s why I personally choose to live in the USA when I have like 150+ choices to potentially choose.

Hikikomori 4y ago
American capitalism is imperialism 2.0.
- moomoo11 4y ago
  That is the reason billions of people no longer live in poverty. American imperialism via capitalism has raised the standard of living for billions. European imperialism was racist and people like me were considered subhuman savages. USA had a history of slavery. Guess what? Most of the world did. The USA killed each other to end slavery, and today this country has elected a person from a group it once oppressed to the highest position. Our VP is a POC woman. To me that’s progress and a sign that things will only get better esp for POC like me. So you can want billions of people to live in poverty or under the rule of some huffed up king? You’re always going to have imperialism as long as humans exist. How you do it and the reason why is important. Promoting global trade and in the process bringing peace and elevating people out of poverty is a better and ideal form of imperialism. In a hundred years all these capitalist countries will reach the same or better standard of living as the USA. Communists/planned economies and some dipshit king who thinks God is taking to him are not going to bring peace nor improve the human condition. As long as bad actors exist in the world, America needs to be the dominant player. Also ask yourself this simple question: where do most immigrants want to go? Why do you think that is?

Hikikomori 4y ago

American capitalism is imperialism 2.0.

moomoo11 4y ago
That is the reason billions of people no longer live in poverty. American imperialism via capitalism has raised the standard of living for billions. European imperialism was racist and people like me were considered subhuman savages. USA had a history of slavery. Guess what? Most of the world did. The USA killed each other to end slavery, and today this country has elected a person from a group it once oppressed to the highest position. Our VP is a POC woman. To me that’s progress and a sign that things will only get better esp for POC like me. So you can want billions of people to live in poverty or under the rule of some huffed up king? You’re always going to have imperialism as long as humans exist. How you do it and the reason why is important. Promoting global trade and in the process bringing peace and elevating people out of poverty is a better and ideal form of imperialism. In a hundred years all these capitalist countries will reach the same or better standard of living as the USA. Communists/planned economies and some dipshit king who thinks God is taking to him are not going to bring peace nor improve the human condition. As long as bad actors exist in the world, America needs to be the dominant player. Also ask yourself this simple question: where do most immigrants want to go? Why do you think that is?