Holy cow. This is ridiculous.

Except for the part about the US committing genocide native Americans, that is correct.

The rest of this post is an inaccurate, equivocating mess.

Referring to the US as a fascist state is not trees for the forest or forest for the trees, but forgetting that are any trees and putting up a sign that has donuts nailed to it.

“The US” is a committee of unequally disorganized and organized politicized committees, and some groups of people make worse decisions than other groups of people.

“The US” absolutely is fascist, and absolutely is not, since that term incorporates disparate elements and contexts.

And then you imply America never should have fought the revolutionary war since England and America had such a totally rad sense of “community”. This is the least defensible and most absurd part of your defeatist rant.

You’re implying America never should have claimed the legitimacy of equal representation under the law, so…what?

The US could end up as the largest colony under an exploited and exploitative authoritarian monarchy?

Nobody is claiming that authoritarianism is the opposite of democracy or that they cancel each other out.

Hey look, the sand and the ocean, they…cancel each other out? No, they’re discrete elements in a system.

Ae you assuming that the ultra-conservative facebook minority are the voice of the general US popular majority?

And for goodness sake, why are you railing against the “bourgeoisie”? Do people understand that means “middle class”? “Bourgeoisie” is

The problem of US capitalism is not the responsibility of middle class business owners, it is literally provably the most wealthy people in the entire country avoiding taxes and civic responsibility, a fraction of the top fraction of assholes.

To imply the best craigslist independent sofa seller in Minnesota is part of the capitalist problem is absurd.

American exceptionalism - a tractable cultural irritation; people who love grilling hot dogs on the 4th of July didn’t organize project Condor(but they’re still irritating).

American institutional racism - a tractable and evolving national guilt. BLM.

The continuing genocide of native americans - the least tractable issue you haven’t addressed to the extent it deserves.

The US is not an authoritarian state and it doesn’t matter if you’re sorry, all anyone can do is try to make things better by voting, being elected into office and introducing legislation that changes the unjust conditions crippling people’s lives, or move abroad 330 days out of the year so that you can avoid paying taxes and contributing to the military industrial complex.

The first step in making a change though, is avoiding embracing your sale of “inevitability”.

Embracing a false inevitability is simple but not easy because you don’t have to make any significant changes in your life but you do have to repeatedly, implausibly and insistently push back against prejudice and injustice.

(1) why keep apologizing? It is either true or it is not, and either way does that really help soften the blow, especially after the first time? Well, anyway, kudos for attempting to be gentle at least.

(2) this seems biased in some places - e.g. are there countries where white supremacy does NOT appear among some portion of its populace? Although I guess you mean it being institutionalized, and so widely spread. But even there, it seems not alone in that? Especially if the races involved do not have to remain fixed across the comparison.

(3) what America seems to absolutely excel at, imho, is lying to itself. Especially the Midwest - e.g. the East and West know about such stuff and try to fight it, the South knows and just doesn’t allow talking about it at all, but people in the Midwest (for anyone wondering why these terms, e.g. no “North”, it has to do with its history, expanding from the 13 colonies westward, and now the terms depict cultural zones rather than geographic ones) have drunk the coolaid and seem to honestly believe that e.g. racism is a thing of the past - or at least like the South they would prefer that people not talk about it. However, this too was not an “America first” issue, itself having been inherited from England when it broke away. The thing is, England - itself a monarchy at that time - grew up afterwards (somewhat, see e.g. Brexit), and the USA grew up too, but yeah still remains deeply scarred by its past, and more especially by its continued present.

One example is how America sent a man to the moon first. While a significant accomplishment, the USA was not the first in space, nor has it showed much interest in the moon since then, especially lately when all the “firsts” there are being made by China and India, and the USA has actively given up rights to moon territories in exchange for deep-sea oil drilling rights. So… a half-point then towards its credit, or more like a full one but historical rather than modern?

Another example is nuclear fission technology, which is widely known to have been developed in the USA, ofc, but by German scientists who were fleeing the fascists at the time. This one actually deserves far more than just half a point though, imho, b/c while America did not put in the investment to develop the educational infrastructure that would have led to this discovery on its own, it did capitalize (a good choice of wording?:-D) on it, and also the USA is where those scientists chose to go (okay so… the latter may have had large geographic reasons behind it as well, as in the USA was not being actively bombed by Germany like the UK was, at the time). Similarly, one school of thought is that this is how the USA originally got its start in its industrial revolution, by the theft of many architectural plans taken from England. In contrast to those kinds of starts though - and here my knowledge is shaky so take this next part with a much more heavy grain of salt - the USA seems to not be keeping up with most other other nuclear-related technology developments since then, involving fusion (except perhaps that recent discovery that might have single-handedly reversed that whole course? so I dunno).

Computers, on the other hand, represent a full, solid, and MAJOR point towards the credit of the USA, right? As well as, for better or worse, the development of the internet (officially at least, it started in Universities within the USA, though that may have just been the modern form using packets, with some signal-passing having happened elsewhere first, and yet even then the first telegraph signals were passed in the USA, so at any rate this seems a solid point rather than a stretch).

So anyway, it is not all lies and smoke and mirrors - lately it seems that way, and ngl if Trump wins the USA may legitimately join with Russia or at least stop opposing the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which would free Russia up to start building itself back up in order to continue its expansionist agenda. So the USA at the very best can be said to be “unstable”, and an “unreliable ally”, but with a MAJOR caveat that corporate interests are starting to become more powerful than actual nations, in recent years. So BUSINESS arrangements are likely to remain solid, even if government ones can be reversed at the drop of a hat. This too is something inherited from England/UK, and the rest of the World, but the USA definitely has drunk the coolaid on that, to the point where like if Apple or Google were to pick one political party, the other would not have much chance and may quickly die out.

But don’t miss out on the flowers or the forest for the sake of examining the trees: the white supremacy angle is only one small piece of this much larger puzzle, that has tentacles EVERYWHERE, world-wide even, and it is not only racists that support the authoritarian regime - there are other parts of that too.

Btw I want to give a shout-out to a tremendously awesome resource: Crash Course US History, and also many issues are discussed at a deeper level in the Crash Course World History, e.g. an episode on Capitalism and Socialism, and 19th-century Imperialism, multiple episodes on Globalization, etc.