Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever). When I hear land of the free, I immediately think bullshit. We are slowly losing our freedoms, what can we do to prevent this? I mean, when Edward Snowden dropped the leaks, people protested, but barely anything changed. What can we do? This post not only applies to Americans, your own government in another country may possibly does the same thing. Feel free to comment!
Don’t act like being German gives you some kind of unique perspective. Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it’s Native population and by the US reservation system.
There’s a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.
Don’t act like being American gives you some unique perspective. Wow, that looks stupid, right?
Sure, but you’re implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility. And that is literally what all Germans said after the war. What was I supposed to do?
And you’re living in a democracy.
No, I’m implying that the ruling class has unique guilt and responsibility, which is nontransferable to their subjects. I never said we have no responsibility. I only contend that holding us equally accountable is mystification; it obscures the uniquely horrible actions of the ruling class. They’re the ones who deserve to be tried for their crimes, after all.
By flattening society, by holding the least of us accountable for the crimes of our rulers, you actually make it harder to hold anyone accountable for anything at all.
Or do you think the Red Army should have executed all Germans because a minority of them voted for Hitler?