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Nobody is arguing that the USA isn't imperialist.
Right, which begs two questions...
Why all the smoke for China when it's obvious the US is much more so?
Do you think it would be better if we allowed the confederacy to exist? You deflected to "both sides". What do you believe here?
I think you mean "raises the question".
It's not obvious that all the smoke is for China. We get so much American politics on Lemmy that everyone else is sick of it and sets up filters. This meme in particular is about China.
No. I think if it wasn't imperialist, the USA would've done a better job at Reconstruction. In case you need an obligatory condemnation, the USA has the world's largest prison population and still practices slavery.
There are other countries that are neither imperialist nor slavers.
lol what? You were the one who initiated the whataboutism here.
I think they're both in the right. I want to know if you think the confederacy should exist. Please elaborate
I'm not here to discuss the merits of the argument. Especially not with someone engaging in such obvious bad-faith reasoning.
Bad faith? They're roughly analogous. I'm just trying to see what you think. I think you don't like where the logical conclusions go and would rather disengage to save face. It's OK.