[hl5]

The US emits some strange message of equality, privacy, rights, freedom, justice, a shining beacon of hope...mixed in with secret police forces that operate with impunity. I think that is an incompatibility that will eventually need to be worked out.

[bigbugbag]

Words are a thing, actions are another that speak much louder.

The words are a mix of propaganda, historical but now obsolete, projected image, biased self-perception and even party true but only when applied to the US not to the rest of the world.

Other countries also engage in a similar propaganda, but only a few have the nuisance potential of the US, such as China.

[mistermann]

It will be worked out eventually, maybe 20 to 50 years from now, when China says "ok that's enough young man, now go sit down and behave yourself".