[throwaway0a5e]

>but they think America is equally as bad... whereas most Americans are ignorant of our own problems.

Takes more than a small serving of cognitive dissonance to say that here. We can't talk about anything but the most narrowly scoped niche technical subject without a bunch of people having a circle jerk about how America is doing it wrong/evil/should be more like (rich western) Europe/etc.

[chrischen]

In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t if something is slightly more rotten than the other thing or a lot more rotten. They’ll both end up spoiling.

I was educated in America from K to 12 and some college, across 3 different states and even 3 years in Canada (where they actually shat on America a lot). Most of what we are taught about freedom or democracy is bullshit. When it comes down to our foreign policy at least it’s really just us or them. The cognitive dissonance is in holding that belief that we are actually helping the countries we invade or topple via the CIA.