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To think The West is morally bankrupt

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Elrae · 27/07/2025 00:19

America democratically elects an adjudicate rapist who sympathises with racists, hates women and will do anything to hang onto power. The UK and it's lickspitrlw leader fawn over Trump and says that Israel has rhe right to cut off food and water to Gaza. Then wairs a year watching children die before saying it is intolerable. Except he is tolerating it.We all are.
The West is pumping out carbon at a vast rate and will no doubt reject the flood of refugees that this will cause.
The West takes more than it's fair share of the world's wealth. Much of the West is based on colonial exploration and murder of the global south.
I used to think we were the good guys.
We are not. We are one of the worst things ever to happen to the planet and it's inhabitants.

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newhouseplans · 27/07/2025 00:38

Elrae · 27/07/2025 00:19

America democratically elects an adjudicate rapist who sympathises with racists, hates women and will do anything to hang onto power. The UK and it's lickspitrlw leader fawn over Trump and says that Israel has rhe right to cut off food and water to Gaza. Then wairs a year watching children die before saying it is intolerable. Except he is tolerating it.We all are.
The West is pumping out carbon at a vast rate and will no doubt reject the flood of refugees that this will cause.
The West takes more than it's fair share of the world's wealth. Much of the West is based on colonial exploration and murder of the global south.
I used to think we were the good guys.
We are not. We are one of the worst things ever to happen to the planet and it's inhabitants.

Sadly, YANBU.

Elrae · 27/07/2025 00:37

WaverleyOwl · 27/07/2025 00:35

Are you from the UK or the US?

We;ll come to that later, just start wherever you like

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WaverleyOwl · 27/07/2025 00:35

Are you from the UK or the US?

WaverleyOwl · 27/07/2025 00:34

To be honest, I'm not sure where to start.

Elrae · 27/07/2025 00:33

WaverleyOwl · 27/07/2025 00:28

You are woefully ill informed.

care to expand or do you just enjoy insulting people?

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WaverleyOwl · 27/07/2025 00:28

You are woefully ill informed.

SummerEve · 27/07/2025 00:23

Yes, we have an awful lot to answer for and we aren’t half as clever, aspirational or superior as we think we are.