For domestic affairs, even though the overton window is severely limited there is still leeway to say things like "I think we should tax the rich more". (keep in mind I am in kkkanada and we still have some semblance of social democratic ideas in the mainstream here). Or " I think we need more social housing". Now, these are not policies that are actually going to happen, mind you, but you can at least talk about them out in the open and not get spit on.

Foreign policy and international affairs appears to be an entirely different story. Don't you dare suggest any of the following:

Ukraine is fully of Nazis
Russia has legitimate security concerns on its border
We helped overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine in 2014
Maduro is the rightful, democratically elected (several times) president of Venezuela
China actually does a lot of good in the world
NATO is an evil terrorist organisation
We butchered Libya and turned it into a modern day slave state and we did it on purpose
Up until VERY recently, that Israel is doing a Holocaust in Gaza
On the global stage, WE are the bad guys. WE are against democracy and human flourishing

These positions are simply not allowed to be had, and certainly not stated in the mainstream. If you dare state any of these things you get dog-piled, swarmed, yelled at, hated. Maybe there are some fringes on either side of the political spectrum that can mutter these things to ourselves, but god help you if you say any of these things to normies.

There is some leeway with shifting global events (for example, since Trump threatened us with annexation it has of course become much more acceptable to criticise and even openly despise the Burger Reich) but for the most part, public opinion is in solid lock step with the interests of the federal government, and more broadly the interests of the international ruling class.

Maybe neither here nor there, but just something that I've noticed recently.

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[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They cannot remember "which Korea is good and which one is bad." They think Arabs, Persians, Indians, and Urdu are all the same ethnicity with the same language and the same religion and belong in the same concentration camp because of 9/11. They "don't speak Mexican" and think all of Centeral/South America and the Caribbean are called "Mexico." They will refer to all of Asia as being either China or Japan, depending on which generation they belong to.

I'll hear from fellow Filipinos Whitey can tell we're Filipino-Americans and I have to correct them with "Crakkkers think we're Latinos until they hear our language, which they will then mock and call us Vietcong."

It seems like many Amerikkkans really do relate to the entirety of the world outside their backwards shithole country through the lens of "did we murder a massive amount of people there". It gets confused when they do things like call Filipinos "Vietcong" because they murdered huge amounts of people in both countries.