• notsure@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Much like Jesus would not recognise his “followers”, Cap would not recognise the “america” he was fighting for…

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      4 months ago

      Considering he went to war in the 40s, I think he would recognize this America. For all of our flaws, we’re doing better now than we were then.

      Like he said - he fought not because America is great, but because it is fragile. America is not some shining precious jewel, it’s a deeply flawed creature - the only thing that marks it as worth saving is the ideal that all people are equal. The further we get from that, the closer we come to being nothing more than trash and a rag.

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        4 months ago

        But in that fragility, he understood that we were only as strong as our weakest link

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        4 months ago

        I agree with your statements on ideals, but I do not think America was on the precipice of becoming a fascist dictatorship in the 40s.

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          4 months ago

          You might be surprised, there were a lot of pro nazi Americans. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed what might have been a quiet agreement with the new reich

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        4 months ago

        For all of our flaws, we’re doing better now than we were then.

        Really? How many Palestinians were the US helping to murder back in the 40s? How many Afghans? How many Iraqis?

        Or are you just happy that the people being murdered happen to be brown people and not ones you think should be included in the “white enough” club?