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Comment by danw1979

2 hours ago

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I find the "self loathing american on the internet" act to be about as performative as putting a pink ribbon on your social media avatar after a shooting. It's not introspective in any meaningful way.

  • I've seen that sentiment shared a couple of times in the past day and little else before. Just something I've noticed...

    I find the self loathing is usually well qualified and not at all a performative act. Performative for who exactly?

As a European, I apologise for this arrogant reply considering how awful Europe has been as an ally over the past 50 years. I promise we will do better and am glad that we're finally trying for once.

Now let's see your introspection (:

  • When I was in the middle east as part of the US Army I really felt like my European friends had my back, no complaints here.

    Apologies the other way around, though.

  • I mean, I’m British and I’ve done a fair amount of introspection about the actions of my own government over the years.

    I guess I should have included that in my reply in case someone else thought I was being hypocritical ?