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      I mean America isn’t one person, so the meme still tracks. Whoever invented manifest destiny is definitely in the running though.

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        I mean America isn’t one person, so the meme still tracks.

        “America allowed a controversial and counter-protested Nazi rally” doesn’t really compare to “Stalin invaded a fourth of Europe in coalition with the Nazis”

        Whoever invented manifest destiny is definitely in the running though.

        I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that they could not have been Nazi collaborators, on account of the lack of Nazis at the time.

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          I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that they could not have been Nazi collaborators, on account of the lack of Nazis at the time.

          Eh, technically one-sidedly helping Nazis isn’t collaboration, but it’s close enough.

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        Volunteering for bans. America has many sins, which are freely discussed and memed about on this comm, but anyone who comes in to play “WHATABOUTISM” apologia for Nazi collaborators is not welcome.

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          It’s just that I can’t avoid seeing irony in Americans (or people overfocused on US) dismissing literally everyone to build their worldview around US faults.

          I mean, take a look at dessailnes’ essays repository. The whole thing is built around US, and fuck anyone else who dares to exist in the real world, because only US and recognize adversaries of US matter, apparently.

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            Wait… Isn’t he the .ml admin that removes everything that disagrees with their native? The admin that cowardly hides behind “Rule 1” infractions so he doesn’t have to explain that he doesn’t have the strength of conviction to admit that he just wants an opposition-free wind-tunnel?

            Who on earth would care to read a repository of propaganda that could twist a narrative into the laughably sad cartoon that it exist as now?

            Oh wait…. Communists.