Anonymous #1 12w

I get the sentiment there tho- like I see America 250 branded anything and it doesn’t make me feel like “wow we made it 250 years” I feel like “oh ok… this is a cash grab like everything else going on ever”

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Anonymous #2 12w

We also have the worst president possible for this anniversary, I would prefer even mitt Romney over him

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Anonymous #1 12w

Bro uses light mode 😭🫵

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Anonymous #4 12w

Bruh out of everything that’s what you got out of it😭

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Anonymous #1 12w

Yeah because why tf are you using light mode 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Anonymous #5 12w

Only good thing has been LMFAO’s party rock anthem

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Anonymous #5 12w

What philosophical lens are you using to define ‘good’

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Anonymous #6 12w

It was a net benefit for humanity

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Anonymous #5 12w

Marshal Plan, supporting Egypt in the Suez Crisis, attempting to curtail French and British colonial projects in Africa, embargoing Apartheid South Africa (though this took way longer than it should have), some of the so-called ‘color revolutions’ were good, supporting some of the Arab Spring revolutions. Rapidly reintegrating Asian states like, South Korea, Japan and former enemies like Vietnam while not enforcing Kuomintang rule in China to the level we could have.

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Anonymous #6 12w

We should have supported India in the 20th century, but now we are righting that historical wrong, even though it’s arguably not “better for the world” in a traditional sense. We also have a done a fuck ton of humanitarian projects, including being the number one provider of funds to nearly every function of the UN but people will still say that said projects were ‘bad’ The expansion of NATO into ex-Soviet republics prevented dozens of wars, remember that the only two former Soviet states…

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Anonymous #6 12w

Correction, the Yugoslav Republic(s), Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia. These states all faced (and some clearly still do) heated ethnic violence, with the states suffering the least happening to be inside of NATO due to Bill Clinton

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Anonymous #6 12w

I could keep going but I don’t feel like it, note that we have done plenty of evil, but we have certainly done some things right, even if only accidentally

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Anonymous #6 12w

Amazing lets go piece by piece: the US does not care about freeing countries from imperialism. The US simply wants to become to dominant imperial power in the world. The Arab Spring was completely fabricated by the US to help it take out the anti-Israel governments and to sponsor a bigger Israel. The Marshall Plan was only enacted because otherwise Europe would have become socialist. Name one good color revolution. Every single time a color revolution happened it replaced a democratically

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Anonymous #5 12w

elected government with a dictatorship. Look at Ukraine. They actively take down monuments to Soviet war hereos and replace them with literal Nazis. Why is Stephen Bandera the "hero" of Ukriane when he murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians? Same in Georgia etc. There was no "ethnic cleansing" in Serbia. This is absolute BS. The US intervened to gain more NATO members and to prevent Russian influence from growing in the Balkans.

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Anonymous #5 12w

EVERY SINGLE THING the US has done is for its own imperialist interests, because it wants to be the dominant imperial power.

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Anonymous #6 12w

And jesus christ supporting the Kuomintang? Seriously? The most corrupt politicians in Chinese history? Why do you think it was called the century of humiliation?

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Anonymous #5 12w

You didn’t ask for intention, you asked for net good.

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Anonymous #5 12w

I said not supporting the Kuomintang actually

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Anonymous #5 12w

Again, Net good doesn’t take into account intentions. Very few states are altruistic because idealistic altruism was very unfortunately proven to be a weak form of foreign policy as 20th century India has shown. Most institutions will try to rectify their own morality and their interests into a single policy goal, which is exactly what caused many of these decisions to be undertaken in the way they were.

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Anonymous #5 12w

No power injures itself so others may prosper at its own expense.

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Anonymous #6 12w

LMFAO’s discography was also a net good if you think about it

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