A smarter person than I once wrote that there were always two USAs: that of the jingoistic, racist hegemony and that of everyone else.

The working class, the antiracists, the socialists and anarchists, the people that came up with jazz and blues, the one that fought for labor rights are all part of the culture worth fighting for. It needs to be mended and improved, and the concept of nations and borders that divide is long overdue to be abolished but we do have parts of our human history in this region of the globe that aren’t exclusively shameful.

Edit for those of us in pretty much any other country other than the US. Its incredible how much suffering one country can cause

me, squinting to try to figure out if this is a loss meme

Wasn’t that Iwo jima flag raising photo staged? I recall seeing the real photo where its literally just a few dudes chugging a flag innyhe ground and thats it, nothing as dramatic as that photo op

Not the USA, the people living in its arbitrary borders

Like fight for the sixties?