• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    191 year ago

    I was born in Seattle. Grew up in Los Angeles. I was taught American exceptionalism and said the national anthem every school day of my childhood, K-12.

    And I believed it all.

    My parents, my teachers, my ministers, my neighborhood police, my news sources: They all fucking lied to me, and did so willingly and maliciously like PragerU. The people of the US are fine (no better or worse than any other) but the society that depends on lying to children and jamming them through a doughboy-processing education system to make them interchangeable, disposable, replaceable laborers and soldiers to be expended on billionaire vanity projects really needs to burn.

    The society of the United States sucks and, without comment on any other society. It needs to be set right. And I say that as a US citizen.

    • Melllvar
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      171 year ago

      Sure, but I’m complaining about metric system memes and such.

    • @KuroJ@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      I was taught American exceptionalism and said the national anthem every school day of my childhood, K-12.

      I was too and did the same, but I was taught to break away from the mold and usual thinking as a young adult pretty early on (thank you parents and to some of my teachers). I’m sorry to hear that those people in your life lied to you and never thought to help you break out of that mold.

      The states is so vast that what you’re saying doesn’t always apply to another person. It’s funny because you mention being born in Seattle and growing up in LA. Well I was born in Georgia and most people would have you believe living in the south is shit (which to be fair, some places are), but I can say my life experience has been completely different than yours.

      As I mentioned before the states has its problems for sure but it’s not all bad and your experience can vastly differ from another.