• blazera@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Americans are just by and large awful people. So what if it kills more people and is awful for the environment, it makes me feel safer.

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      6 months ago

      You’re so transparent it’s not even funny. Your bait is weak. Kindly fuck off.

      On second thought, I take that kindly back. Just fuck off.

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      6 months ago

      Some form of “_____ are just by and large awful people” is an extremely common but rationally indefensible belief. The probability of man-made borders and categories accidentally separating the good from the bad by coincidence is effectively zero.

      American attitudes are the result of incentives. Getting people to believe things can be very profitable, and American companies spend many billions of dollars getting Americans to believe that a bigger vehicle is a necessity with a wide ranging campaign that includes both traditional ads and product placement in music and movies. The same would happen anywhere else where a sufficient opportunity to profit exists.

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        6 months ago

        Americans doing awful things because they saw ads for it isn’t really improving my view of them.

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      6 months ago

      individualism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race