Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "'Is This Patriot Enough?': Asian American Official Shows Military Scars, Condemns Racist Violence" video.

  1. This is a false narrative. The USA was STOLEN by force from the mesoamerican inhabitants by the religious extremists, social outcasts, terrorists and criminals of Europe. All the people who were too much for Europe, took a boat across the Atlantic and stole land from mesoamericans. Something that still isn't adequately acknowledged. It's certainly something that deserves much more social awareness than historic slavery. The country then built itself up by kidnapping people from around the world and forcing them into labour. I'm not just talking about African slavery here. Every single technological leap that has ever occurred inside the united states has a direct result of forced labour or stolen research. For example, one well known example is after WW2 thousands of German scientists were kidnapped from Germany and told they could either work for the USA and share their technologies or be executed for war crimes. The current big tech boom in silicon valley is fueled by Chinese and Indian technologies. Even the freaking lightbulb was stolen soviet technology. From the 1960s, unhappy with just kidnapping people the USA started creating debt traps for countries around the world making them beholden to the USA and robbing them of a right to true democracy or acting out of self interest. That's worse than colonialism, because it's done in shady backrooms out of sight. When countries try to claim back their sovereignty, they face threats, intimidation and sabre rattling from the USA. Countries like south korea whom has wanted to make amends with north korea and gain sovereignty over their military for decades now, but the USA won't allow it. There's too much at stake for the USA in keeping the DPRK isolated and holding control over a regional military force so close to Russia and China. Countries all across Europe and the South Pacific where the USA has forced having their own military bases and ports. The state broadcaster for Germany, DW, is a US propaganda mouth piece parroting pro USA lies often to the detriment of Germany itself. Japan has not been allowed to have it's own military force for anything but a small defensive force since the end of WW2 under threat of the USA dropping more bombs on them. It was only months ago after they joined the quad and as a direct benefit to the USA that this has changed and they have now announced they plan to create their own offensive military force. Look at Philippines. It succeeded in pulling away from US influence under Rodrigo Duterte. Because of that, they managed to turn their country into one of the least safe narco countries in the world, into one of the safest with drug crime now under 5%. However, that caused the US to go on a campaign against the Philippines until Duterte was removed from office and their recent realignment with US influence. All of the main apparent "bad guys" around the world the US claims, are in reality simply countries that do not want to be influenced by the USA. All of the negative culture inside the USA, all of the glorification of crime, all of the crimes and trauma hiding behind religious expression, all of the kidnapping, the theft, the forced influence and debt traps, they all stem back to the reality the USA was founded by the worst extremists in Europe, people so extreme that they were considered criminals in Europe. Also don't forget that Britain first used the USA as a penal colony dumping 50K convicts. That's 4x as many as they ever dumped in Australia. 80% of all British convicts transported overseas were political prisoners in prison for plotting or attempting to overthrow the government/monarchy, or inciting that others do so. It's where the free speech amendment comes from. Let's also not forget that the African slave trade has it's roots in the regional justice system. Criminals who committed specific crimes were made slaves as punishment. That's where the African slave traders got them, that's what fed the European and US demand for slaves from Africa. Criminality and extremism is in the blood of many people in the USA. That's the truth.
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