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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When did 'Murica, land of the free, abandon freedom for madness?

Oh, I got this one! Pick me, pick me!

Mexico, Samoa, Hawaii, Philippeans, Columbia, Hondurus, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico (again), Haiti, Dominican Republic, Russia, Greece, Costa Rica, Albania, Syria, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran, Syria (again), Indonesia, Iraq, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba (again), Congo, Dominican Republic (again), Iraq (again), Guyana, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Angola, East Timor, Argentina, Afghanistan, Nicaragua (again), Granada, Panama, the USSR, Iraq (again again), Haiti (again), Yugoslavia, Afghanistan (again), Venezuela, Iraq (again again again), Haiti (again again), Palestine (continuously), Syria (again again), Libya, Bolivia (again), Venezuela (again)

[-] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Can't help but to sing along

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I gotta organize them to make them more singable sometime.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Murica, land of the free, was founded by people who owned slaves. While speaking about the evils of slavery.

So the madness was always there.

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[-] Yaarmehearty@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago

I’m starting to think the same thing, if you go over US foreign policy since WW2 it is almost like the mask is just coming off entirely now.

[-] gabbath 8 points 2 days ago

America did a lot of bad stuff, to put it mildly. This is definitely something else though.

[-] Yaarmehearty@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I agree, that’s what I mean by it just going mask off, there’s no pretending about a probable cause of higher moral path etc this time.

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[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

We live in a country that was stolen then we stole some other people so they could do the work for us. Then conquering half a continent wasn’t good enough for us, so we went around ruining other places if they didn’t want to give us all their stuff. If people think we only recently crossed a line, I’d generously hope they were just ignorant because the alternative is horrific. Every piece of the past is a step that got us to where we are.

[-] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The US is just Helldivers 2 in real life. A democracy managed by Elon Musk and people ready to die for „liberty“, „prosperity“ and „freedom“.

[-] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Don't make me feel bad about my beloved Helldivers!

[-] Kurroth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry to say most people don't get it or starship troopers.

[-] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Don’t feel bad. It’s not the devs fault that we live in a strange timeline

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

You do understand that Helldivers is a satire of America? This didn't change in 2024. The Helldivers yell about freedom and democracy while having zero meaningful freedom or political influence, and invading other places to steal their oil or murder them for being communists because that is what Americans do.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 75 points 3 days ago

It's not analogy, it's allegory. It applies too well to the world.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 points 3 days ago

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago

Europe after stopping fighting the most brutal and effective wars for centuries:

You're sure you want us back? We'll be united this time too.

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[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago

Murica was never free, has always been madness

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[-] rosco385@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago

I will draw you, Donald, as poison is drawn from a wound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzIjVKbxuec&t=128

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

Europe must join together send to shit USA and go full Gandalf the White

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

The USA has been the bad guy since, like, 1952. Hell, it was post-Soviet Russia that joined with The United States back in the post-9/11 War on Terror period. And the Europeans aren't Gandalf. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin' lord the grain. Your fucking children, you've had 15 children. You've never taken a bath. You've literally never. washed. your. penis. You've never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You've had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke's army.

Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can't read. You don't know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit. You literally probably don't even know what the direction 'left' is. I'm sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I've been to the Renaissance Fair. I've eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call 'bitch beaters', which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.

Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can't sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You're in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he's in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.

You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and...

End. This. Nightmare.

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