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    When I see these American utopian delusion, through media or discourse, I get a strange vibe. It’s not negative, it’s not like when I learn about the reality of daily life of workers in the US that gets my blood boiling. Instead I experience some kind of nostalgia

    I wish it was real I think. If the US were exactly what they claim to be, life would be so much easier.

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      Even if they were what they claimed to be, it’d still be a genocidal colonial state 🤷🏿‍♂️

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        Yeah sure… even if the watered down version of History taught in Florida was real, still problematic

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      Part of me misses the time before the cracks really started to show, back when maybe the problem was just me

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        It’s not you, a lot of western MLs were liberals before. I remember the Obama years, I remember how naive I was, I genuinely thought that the US was leading the way against racism and inequality. In my defense I’m European so I had no first hand experience of the country and the media were creaming themselves with Obama juice. Also I was 11 years old lol.