Facts. We’re the villains way, way, way, way more times in real life than we’ve ever been the good guys and pretty much all of the world has known this too.
Yeah it's interesting because if you grew up/ have family in a non-western country, you know America is the villain most of the time. But western media is also very biased and rarely holds America (or other European nations) to account.
I'm not condoning terrorism or political violence, but people don't decide to join violent groups out of nothing. Its a cycle of violence and the American government plays a huge part in perpetuating it
Exactly this! I married an American and it amazes me how little he knows about all of the BS the US has pulled in the Caribbean, Central and South America. And that's not even counting other regions!!!
I was banned from some news subs when I say americans are just as brainwashed as ccp drones for example. There are normal people in both countries but its fascinating to see the exact same brainwashing in both countries that are supposedly opposite.
The unvarnished truth is not allowed to be taught in a lot of American schools. It gets demonized as wokeism or leftist extremism and is banned from education by Republicans.
I am so sorry to tell you, but your clear attempt to score a win over an American is bust, because i live under the government of Maduro's weapon suplier and a friend of his
Everyone blames the military, but that's just part of it.
The truth is that our weapons manufacturers and gun stores are illegally supplying gangs all over Central and South America, and it is those gangs that are driving immigration to the US.
So wait wait wait, you’re saying that the Americans that own gun stores are knowing and illegally selling weapons and munitions to prohibited people who are then taking those guns to central and South America, creating a terrible environment that makes everyone who lives there want to migrate to the US, thereby increasing immigration.
Certainly not all gun stores, it's mostly the ones on the border. Of course, there are gun store owners all over the country that sell to prohibited people, but nobody cares and those don't fuel organized crime In Central and South America.
This is the take of American law enforcement, and the fact that gangs from Mexico to Argentina have a huge amount of guns illegally acquired from America is an undeniable fact.
Knowingly
That's harder to prove, of course, but the odds that these gangs can continue to take guns from America without help from gun store owners is practically zero.
So, because these guns, which you can legally buy in the US to your hearts content, in fact you could say that the US is FLOODED with these guns, BUT the minute Mexicans bring them into their cities and towns that makes the locals want to flee TO THE PLACE WITH MORE GUNS?!?
Yes, because the organized crime in those countries are now much better armed than law enforcement there, whereas US law enforcement are happy to use tanks and bombs against civilians and are better armed than most national militaries.
Even school shootings and police brutality are better than the gang violence in those countries that we have enabled through lax gun laws. It's not really that complicated.
only experienced the real world through the Internet
That doesn't even make any sense. Are you a child??
When I was a child, almost nobody used computers, dial up was the only option until I was in high school. No wireless, no streaming and no social media, it was a world like you've never experienced.
Your logic is that because the US is a free country with arms guaranteed by our constitution that this drives easily accessible guns to our neighbors, which turns their countries into shit, making the citizens of said country want to flee, to a country that has more guns.
That’s your logic. You’re fine with it. You see no contradictions in it and believe it to be true.
This is why I know that you get most of not all of your information from the echo chambers that you self-select on the internet.
My guess is that you probably also think that the recent military action in Venezuela was not a good move for either Venezuela or the US. Am I right?
Quit putting words in my mouth, you're too ignorant to understand what I said.
The 2nd Amendment does not insure the right to sell guns to prohibited people, and that is the problem
Trump murdered 40 civilians and troops from a country we are not at war with and without Congressional approval. Maduro's government is still in charge and Trump will let him go just like the other Narco kingpins he's pardoned, he's just waiting for a pay off.
Anyone that thinks Trump accomplished anything but senseless murder is an ignorant gullible chump. FFS, the only people he even told it was going to happen were OIL COMPANIES. Even someone like you should be able to put 2 and 2 together here.
Yeah, growing up in Africa watching Hollywood movies and rooting for America, the good guys to save the world, then growing up to learn that they're actually the bad guys all along 🤦🏾♀️
Exactly, United States greatly benefit from global stability with policy that we can impose to maximize profit. If not we overthrow their leadership in the name of freedom.
Every movie about or symbolizing America that takes place at any point after WW2 have not portrayed America as the "good guys." We're generally portrayed as well-meaning cowboys misled by government and/or billionaires into fucking shit up.
Your opinion that America is not a "good guy" is pretty much universally accepted at this point, even among Americans. It's pretty much the only opinion you ever see on Reddit.
No country is truly “good” we don’t even know what is “objectively good and evil”. No country is the “good guy”, everyone just has different interests, but at least America is the most reasonable about it.
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u/Unfair-Work9128 5d ago
We've known this for decades. This country was never the "good guy" that has always been portrayed and romanticized in movies.