• [object Object]@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Why is entire Russia cut off from SWIFT then, if the war is due to the doings of despots and oligarchs? Why was the whole Iran under sanctions for decades?

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      Well I can tell you that I didn’t put any sanctions on anyone. Nor have i made any international trips (Caribbean honeymoon cruise notwithstanding) or deals in my life.

      Why are they under sanctions? Take a look at the discussions those oligarchs and despots in the US were having and please again note that I voted as much against corporate interests and corruption as my ballots would allow. If I was out-voted, am I truly to blame?

      And if all these are such big issues in your life, what have you done to fix them?

      Blaming people like me for the ills of the government I have disagreed with since the time I truly learned how it functioned is genuinely unhelpful; you are berating the only people in this sad excuse for a country who genuinely want to improve things for everyone because we do see the potential the US had and utterly squandered in the name of profits for a few.

      We were sold the lie harder than anyone else. We fought against the lies in what ways we could. I’ve faced down lines of riot police firing tear gas into crowds alongside my father. I have put myself on the line against this oppression. Now I generally keep to myself and protect my babies as best I am able, which is beginning to feel increasingly futile.

      So please, again, explain to me why I’m the bad guy for what the people I very specifically have voted and physically stood against every time I can have done and how its entirely the fault of me and people like me.

      Edit: missing words.

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        Wow, a whole lot of text there. All of that will be of just as much interest to the world as who voted against Putin in Russia. Trump is still the elected emperor last I checked.

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            Ah yes, the usual, someone else needs to solve your problem for you. The problem that USians created and imposed on the world. But we also have to sympathize with USians about them not being able to get rid of the problem that they created.

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              A more measured response: it is not my responsibility to educate every ignoramus in my country. For you to suggest all the problems of my country are my fault is either incredibly stupid or incredibly disingenuous, especially when I’m on super lefty Lemmy. Clearly I agree with most of the sentiments here otherwise I’d be on Truth Social and Facebook spouting about how Murica’s da greatest.

              So please explain to me why, by your own logic, I shouldn’t blame you for the bullshit going on in the EU or in the middle east or wherever the fuck you’re from? You live there, its entirely your fault.

              Or that’s disingenuous and stupid. Don’t be that.