MAGA customers are a double edged sword. You can sell them on practically anything as long as it “owns the libs”, but they often don’t have much money.

I think the primary difference here is they know the population they’re oppressing so it’s difficult to wholly believe the propaganda.

When being imperialists abroad, they’re fed a steady stream of propaganda about how they’re the hero, that they’re saving democracy, babies, capitalism, and what not. Most of them don’t speak the language and have difficulty relating to the local population. Americans are notoriously ignorant of everything outside the US (fine, in the US too) and the locals they’re defrauding are understandably afraid and/or hostile, so many don’t learn otherwise or don’t want to accept otherwise. Imagine the blow to the psyche of switching gears from “great American saviour” to “brown kid murder machine to make rich people richer”. That’s tough.

Now the lies are much harder to believe. They speak the language, share the culture, and some are at least vaguely familiar with the events leading up to these protests. While 1/3 of the US population are utter numpties, the remaining 2/3 are at least likely redeemable and some of that larger fraction is likely present in the military. They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t believe the propaganda telling them otherwise.

Now we’ll see if any have the courage to stand against this. I’m not holding my breath.

The United States is all about being the biggest: biggest cars, biggest wealth, biggest waistline, and biggest stupid.

The comments section, as expected from Fox News, is an utter disaster. One highlight is a “Trump philosopher” that has “deeply studied Trump’s policies and has found nothing any reasonable American should disagree with”.

It’s more that pretending certain groups are a monolith, or really pretending anything is something it’s not, to justify hate speech is banned. Sure, it’s easy to pretend that all Jews are Zionists (ergo all Jews are pro-genocide) but it’s demonstrably untrue and just lazy thinking.

This madlad frequently responds to his own moderated comments. I’ve officially become a follower, it’s like watching a train wreck. He’s just so fragile.

JFC. There’s at least one in every forum.

Don’t kink shame. A humiliation fetish is perfectly respectable.

From the Oxford dictionary:

Colony
noun

1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

2. a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.

An area in another country “recommended by the UN” that is then progressively inhabited by settlers moving from other countries. Totally not a colony at all, not one bit.

/s

LOL

You should spend a few minutes learning about the history of Israel.

You’re proving my point for me. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs doesn’t include meal choice, only that physiological needs are met.

and people need more than nutrients

Someone failed their science classes.