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— John Green (via quotemadness)

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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou (via quotemadness)

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Me on Fourth of July like

Anyway, stop spreading white nationalist rhetoric and toxic nationalism thanks

Nobody said anything about race. Stop that.

It’s nationalist to state facts now?

How is this toxic?

Show me countries better than the USA.

economically

x

human freedom

x

quality of life

x

social progress 

x

income equality (america was among the worst)

x

healthcare

x x

gender equality

x

what exactly makes america the “best country” here? america doesn’t excel in anything.

I was gonna say aren’t we like #1 in a bunch of bad stats? Like aren’t we the top for rape and abuse?

we are superior in waging wars, exporting and using firearms, and incarcerating the population among a lot of other terrible things. how depressing is patriotism and nationalism?

I remember this epic moment from The Newsroom

Americans just buy into the propaganda they are the greatest country when there is absolutely zero evidence to say so.

See also: Japanese-American intermnent camps during WWII.
100,000+ American citizens stripped of any and all rights they had, thrown in prison without trial, all because of who their ancestors were.

Or the crack epidemic being caused by the CIA, and then the subsequent murder of Gary Webb who exposed it.

mentioned above:

• cia crack epidemic
• gary webb “suicide” (suspicious anyway, but gov. prevented him from getting a job after controversial report)
• japanese american internment camps (also suggest reading the book Farewell to Manzanar)
• MK-Ultra (TL;DR: gov. believed mind control existed for some fucking reason and tortured human subjects w/ extremely dangerous drugs (i.e. LSD) to ‘combat’ it)
• MK-Naomi
• tuskegee experiment
• operation mockingbird
• poisoning foster kids
• operation northwoods (wikipedia)

see also:

• kent state shooting
  
• manhattan project: injection of plutonium into civilians
• manhattan project: dump sites (not sure if ment. above in poisoning MO)
  
• manhattan project: hiroshima/nagasaki (suggest book Phoenix Rising)
• flint, michigan
• poisoning industrial alcohol supply (during prohibition, punished “lawbreakers”, as if that’s a crime that warrants execution. 1927 archive page, requires subscription // snopes, if you trust that)
• operation paperclip (nazi recruitment, suggest reading cited book)
• Trails of Tears (haha and we’re STILL stealing reservation land! related, modern)
• MODERN: ICE immigrant cruelty, entrapment
• MODERN: HIV/AIDS epidemic
• MODERN: human rights disaster of hurricane katrina
• MODERN: dakota access pipeline spills (and other pipeline spills) (remember #NoDAPL?)
• i dont even have sources for this bc theres just so much fucking involved in it, but start here i guess for the syrian oil warfare
• theres like so much more so feel free to add

idk if this is exactly related but another fucked up thing the US government did is that they granted immunity to nazis who conducted fatal human experiments so they could use the data obtained from them. Just look up Unit 731 on Wikipedia and you’ll be able to read about it (some of the experiments in the “Activities” tab are extremely graphic. just a warning.)

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne Dyer (via quotemadness)