America Was Never Great

Fuck anyone's MERICA pride nationalism bullshit. That's just a fuckin excuse to blatantly ignore the prejudice, hatred, and oppression embedded in our culture, or a euphemism to label their own similarly aligned bigoted beliefs.

You're really so fucking proud to be part of a country that poisons your drinking water, that is controlled by corporations with lobbyist joysticks, that creates catastrophes in other parts of the world, that is so covert with their dark agendas and manipulates mainstream media to further support it?

Or do refuse to believe anything of the sort?

Or are you on the spectrum of bigots, who see MERICA as a way to express your ideals of racial/cultural superiority, as an embodiment of "great" tyrannical, masculine strength? Red, white, and blue, love the troops whose sacrifices have hidden purposes? MERICA, out with all the criminals, aka the foreigners, the immigrants, those who don't worship a "Western" God? Because we're going to pretend like this nation wasn't founded by a fucking slew of immigrants, that destroyed indigenous peoples, and rose to might on the bloody backs of the enslaved? But that's okay, right, because they were white?

American culture is hyper-obsessed with masculinity and what it entails, thus enforcing corresponding roles and ideals of femininity, fueling rape culture to ridiculous magnitudes. American culture is hyper-obsessed with extreme pride and superiority complexes, and the excessive expression of such; Americans will boast loud and proud how much they love their country, and likewise use such "pride" to justify or support in some twisted, illogical manner obscene and wholly irrational superiority complexes, be it racial or cultural, and most often an intermixed form of both (as long as it's white, though).

Love America! Where a rapist, who was caught raping, gets off with a few months because we worry about how it will affect HIM and not the victim! Where another rapist involved in TWO separate rapes only gets probation! Where men of color in the same situations get far harsher sentences than their white counterparts! Where it's considered "stupid political correctness" not to label all Muslims as terrorists, most often coming from white Catholics/Christians, despite the extreme similarities between the two religions! Where we still have white supremacist riots! Where people still say "go back to your own country!" Where police brutality and fatally excessive force is considered justified despite loads of evidence just because the victim was of color or homeless! Where "religious" freedom is considered threatened by prohibiting discrimination, even though those who claim it will also tout their love for "America" despite its supposed inherent separation of church and state! Where many still want to dictate how you live your life, from gender and sexuality to jobs and clothing and roles! Where everyone thinks they're totally fucking free and loved by the same government that allows, if not welcomes, the poisoning of their food, the systemic attacks on their freedom and health (love you, BigPharma)! Where America might be kinda, totally fucking cool if you're a white, cisgender male who's as bigoted and ignorant as many, if not most, of the ideals our country promotes and supports (or has, as if racism isn't still alive and well today).

Fuck yeah, America.

You've gotta have some fucked up beliefs if you're proud to be an American.