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    This is literally the point of The Boys. What if normal greedy people held the power, what would that look like if they were superpowered.

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    Europe: “Why do Americans hate natives and black people?” after raping Africa for its resources.

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    Didn’t USA come up with both characters? One in the 1930s and one now? More of a sign of the times I say.

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      Yeah. The Boys is literally a hot take on current America. And it’s awesome. People that think this meme is clever have never seen the show. It’s basically the entire point of the show.

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      USA participating in WW2 is one of the greatest net goods in history at the cost of millions of lives. Cant argue it was citizens sent into involuntary massacre. Neither can you argue how the most evil and horrible empires got dismantled then or eventually.

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        We were never that great. We got to where we are through exploiting the natives land and through slavery. Also rampant sexism and homophobia to name a few. But if you don’t give a shit about any people in those categories, i.e. only care about white people and even that mainly just white men then sure I guess we were great back then.

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          Meh, we were great at many things, and horrible at many things. Life is grey, not black and white.

          Every nation on the planet has sins. I’m not minimizing America’s; they are grave. But across the world, throughout history every parcel of land was taken, and every nation has at one point exploited it’s people. It’s childish to imagine any nation/culture/people is clean.

          Certainly not agreeing with the “back in the good old days” rhetoric. As you point out, “the good old days” weren’t so good if your skin was the wrong color, or had polio, or didn’t want to serve in a war, or many other reasons.

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            Colonialism is definitely a unique sort of evil. If you don’t think that I’m sceptical that you’re particularly broadly read.

            The scale of atrocities committed is just beyond comparison, like the most hardcore genocide in ancient times (that we have evidence of) was against a single city. In colonialism we are talking about continents.

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              Huh? Various ancient peoples led continent wide conquests. In the new world and the old.

              I’m not saying modern nations are “better”, I’m saying human nature, the process of power, and the means of acquisition are uniform through time. Further, nearly every section of territory we are discussing was “conquered” multiple times.

              Of course there were less people there hundreds of years ago, that doesn’t change displacement/ acquisition/genocide/ etc

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                So genocide is the key word. A lot of conquest did not involve the displacement or extermination of entire peoples until colonialism.

                Conquering a place was largely “so you pay tax to me now” prior to colonialism, at which point it became more “so you are subhuman and need to be exterminated or bread of of existence”

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        You never were. Genocide of native Americans directly to 300 years of African slavery.

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          I meant to say so fucking great. I understand why I’m getting down voted. That was the point I’m making. This country has always been a worthless fucking shit hole since day one.

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            I have a feeling that your original comment would benefit from /s

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              Oh well I give two shits if people are downvoting me lol

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          Actin like the US isnt the only country to kill natives and have slaves. Every country is bad. We just have to try and be less bad as time goes on. But that seems almost impossible with who runs countries.

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            You weren’t the only ones, but you sure did it the most.

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    “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

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      Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!

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            Lmao I thought your reply was a joke on Israel calling everything Hamas. You were serious? Lol

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              Can’t attest to their intentions but “speak for yourself” would be the continuation of the ken m “we are all x on this blessed day” meme, whether or not that’s what you were going for.

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      That’s rich coming from a fucking terrorist himself. Dude blew up civilians too. Guess he knows what he’s talking about.

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      Wtf, I can’t believe this is real.

      Also- 1969, nice.

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    Now do your country.

    Edit: so far GB and Canada have a sense of humour

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      And not even improving the lives of its own citizens. Literally just causing as much death and destruction all over the world as possible just to profit a couple of military and oil corporations and their owners.

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    Eh… Most of us see our country as somewhere in-between now a days.

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      Yeah, this meme is fine, but it also goes the other way. Media runs off negative news and fear, and what the rest of the world is seeing is our media.

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    Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show

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    More like him (with the Nuke guy watching his back).