ISIS = American army

[Belacqua]

the U.S is not serious when it comes to human rights.

You know I think the well-justified riots going on in the US are caused by the same thing. There's violence aimed at the poor overseas, and a slightly less bloody violence aimed toward the unfortunate at home. Less bloody because the weapons tend to be smaller than the mass bombs we aim abroad, or more built into the institutions. But it's still violence, and America is built on it. The wealth comes from manipulating and making other people poor. 

The local propaganda is more effective, I think. Anglophones still have trouble realizing it, whereas people are more likely to see the evil if they're not quite as near to US media. 

I moved to Hiroshima 32 years ago and it was my first time to hear people say that maybe America had done bad things. It was a shock at first. There was a bar all the foreigners went to, and whenever there was blood on the stairs it was almost always because some American had had his first encounter with someone who didn't agree that the US is the world's savior. 

People live in fantasyland. I see no sign that the violence will decrease.

(And the fact that people here get pleasure from insulting you is part of that. They have the option of ignoring you if they think you're so hopeless, but they get pleasure from staying and saying snark about you. They like it when they can make someone feel bad.)