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[โ€“] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The USian compulsion to externalize every problem it has as analogous to a foreigner (sometimes even a caricature of a foreigner made up by the US) is really something that should be studied. It's like this knee-jerk inability to take on any responsibility for the US fundamentally being shit. Possibly in part due to the religious-like treatment of the constitution. And the endless vilifying of leaders and/or peoples of other countries over decades, which has made it basically a constant thing to have one foreign specter or another in the public view.

[โ€“] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

It's just projection as a result of collective narcissism. This stuff has been studied to death.