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Republicans Want You to Die (www.commondreams.org)
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[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

A large portions of democrats too. I don’t think Americans realize how their culture of rugged individualism has affected them as a people.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I don't think you can call it a culture but propaganda to justify their personal greed and neoliberal policies. Basically sociopathy as an ideology for the elite, dressed up as "whatever" for the masses.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It’s really what American “culture” seems like to an outsider.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

True, the american dream, liberty, land of opportunity, make your own way, that's why people come. But it's a lie right? So can a lie be a culture? Or is it a mass delusion? Maybe, colonial settlers also went to the US despite knowing how dangerous it is to die on a wagon train (I mean dysentery, not indians haha). So taking a huge risk of catastrophic failure could bee seen as a culture.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Take one pinch of puritanism, a pinch of rugged individualism and sprinkle on some American exceptionalism and you have a dangerous combination.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And two heaping dollops of lazy and stupid.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I recently learned about the North Korean concept of "juche" and realized, "holy shit, that's what Republicans believe."

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