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Ive been thinking this week about how there are about 50 countries n Europe & 50 states in the US..

After starting 2 socialize n #onlinespaces –specifically ones for vegans,I have experienced a lot of h8 toward Americans & hate toward myself for being American.

It’s no fun-& most of the time the hate comes from well-off Europeans. People with #freehealthcare and #livingwages. People with no fear of homelessness or where their next meal will b coming from.

The same Europeans talk down to u once they hear u have the same accent that is in all the movies – all the while chastising “all of u” for “colonizing“ the country they once owned. Somehow forgetting that they were the ones that sent the genocidal boats over here n the first place.

The same with anti-men rhetoric, there r plenty of people who think “the good ones” wont mind if they say that their country should be bombed &all of their people murdered.

To these people I say–focus your damage on the true villains. The elite&the cruel. (cont.)#777exi.

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