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Why do Americans think that they are literally actors in a movie?

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

will no longer be exceptional

That's not what American exceptionalism is; it's really frustrating that people who most likely only speak English keep misunderstanding what people mean by exceptionalism. It doesn't mean 'amazing' or 'the best', even though ironically even school teachers seem to make that mistake when they say a kid is exceptional; it means the rules apply to everyone EXCEPT the exceptional.

If they DID understand what exceptional is and was using it that way, then they can jump down the pit; every country on the planet should be beholden to the same principles; all the worst atrocities of the last 100 years is because former colonial powers (America especially) think principles are for the global South; Western countries get to do whatever we want because somehow we intrinsically embody those principles and don't need to actually apply them.

THEY commit war crimes, we just engage in war

THEY have corruption, our system is simply inefficient (at worst)

THEY are warmongering, we're just liberating the masses

THEY refuse to enrich their people with their country's wealth, we have privatized resources (because we believe in freedom!)

The ICC and ICJ are for Africa and Russia, they're not supposed to investigate us

I do notice he even says 'guarantor of relative stability'; yes, the West gets relative stability, the global South gets death and theft.