(April 24, 2020 at 4:18 am)WinterHold Wrote: I wish superpowers -along with their people- start to see the weight of the misery their actions cause.
Back when Japan had its Bubble Economy and everybody was talking about "internationalization," it was easy for young foreigners just out of college to come here and get a job. There were lots of inexperienced Americans in town.
At the late-night bar in town where the foreigners would gather, it was fairly common to have fist fights between Americans and foreigners from other countries. And the cause was very frequently what the foreigners had to say about US foreign policy. The 20-something American kids had just never heard anyone say that America wasn't the greatest ever and the wonderful scion of democracy. A lot of them couldn't deal with hearing it. A Korean guy would mention that the US killed something like 20% of the population of North Korea, and rather than accepting the fact the American guy would lash out.
The vast majority of Americans have no idea what their country has done. Corporate media are fantastically effective at presenting an alternate reality. And the hatred they've worked up against Muslims is a fundamental part of this. If we knew who the real enemy was we might hold someone accountable at home.
And of course this continues. During the time we've all been feeling sorry for ourselves about the virus, we managed to drop a record number of bombs on Somalia, though I'll bet that only a tiny percentage of Americans knows this.
