Aral BalkanMar 14

Dear USA,

Donald Trump is exactly who you are.

Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.

Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

“This is not who we are.”

Bullshit.

This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.

You want to change?

Start by accepting that.

Show threadLulu 🍉 לולו

@aral

There's a similar rhetoric coming from the zionist settlers in Palestine rhapsodizing over some imaginary democracy that their illegitimate colony once had. Even if we set aside everything else, there was a "Military Governance" over the Palestinian citizens until 1 December 1966 and a brutal illegal occupation that started in June 1967 to this day. You could at most speak of 6 months in which this illegitimate entity didn't have an outright military dictatorship.

The same is true for the USA. The genocides, slavery, segregation, war crimes and crimes against humanity all over the world. I fail to see the point at which there was anything good about that monstrous empire.

Mar 14 at 12:07pmWeb
Show thread🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦Mar 14
@lulu @aral Right but remember those places (like many others) were stolen fair & square. 😜
Show threadGiamedinMar 14

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Joking about genocide. Real classy.

Show threadOyu F'kaMar 14
@Giamedin @lulu @aral I suspect that was sarcasm?
Show threadGiamedinMar 14

@Oyu_Fka @lulu @aral

Yes I’m sure it was a very pithy comment.

For me it was my older aunts and uncles abducted, beaten, and raped into submission. It was my older uncle coming back and teaching “gods love” to my mom, just like the priest taught him in his room at night. It was generations of broken people raising kids that suffered the residual damage that was inflicted on their parents.

But please, explain it me again like I don’t understand.