The US overthrew democracy in the country I am from
The US installed a fascist king with secret police that terrorized my family
Once kicked out the US supported a dictator in the neighboring country where the other half of my family lived
The US funded both sides of a war between my country and the neighboring one that led to mass civilian deaths, one side directly by giving a dictator weapons and cash and the other side clandestinely thru laundering money by selling drugs in Latin America
Once they lost that war turned on the dictator in the neighboring country and invented reasons to illegally invade. Twice
Toppled the regime and left a power vacuum that consumed all my family that lived there for literally hundreds of years.
Created material conditions in the country my family is from that forced them to leave or die

You Americans are not the good guys, your country and government is evil to its core.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago

you don't think Harris would have done a better job than Trump?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 hours ago

lol i can say almost all of this for myself, and it wouldn't narrow it down where i'm from. fuck the us empire and its apologists.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Have you considered being born to a wealthy white family in the West? I hear it's much easier

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, like, come on! Being born in the Middle East? Rookie mistake!

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 hours ago

Or anywhere in south America, or eastern Europe, or most of Asia.

Fuck we really are the baddies

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 59 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I would try to guess your country but there are too many that the US has done this to

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 17 hours ago

Point 1 definitely has some 50+ countries in it, but point 2 almost immediately leads to Iran, who suffered a coup in the 1950s because the then president wanted to nationalize the oil reserves.

Point 3 is the rise of Saddam. Point 4 is the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the Iran-Contra kerfuffle. Point 5 is the two invasions of Iraq by the USA, 1991 and 2003, the latter leading directly to point 6.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is iran

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

OP said it was in Latin America tho

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

No, the CIA was selling drugs in latin america....

Iraq was invaded twice

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 hours ago

They did? Note also thought it was going to be a a south American country but none of it fit

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you're a foreigner, so your life doesn't' matter.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

worse, they'll say that he's privileged for not being a gay in trump's america, since that's perhaps the worst thing that could happen to a human being.

[–] fruitfullershri@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

This is too accurate.

[–] fruitfullershri@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Agreed. I'm sorry all the good people in this country are drowned out by the bad ones and their useful idiots.

Bernie losing the nomination twice should really show everyone where this nation's priorities lie. They only care about money and enriching themselves. Everyone else is just a stepping stone to that goal.