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So sick of the label of anti-American. I've gotten it and plenty of people on my side have gotten it and plenty of people opposing me have been gifted it by the people on my side.
Being anti-American is impossible. You know why? It's a hunk of rock surrounded by two pools and two hunks of rock that are ALSO American. America is a country. An arbitrary land. Borders negotiated and defined by kings and ministries and groups of elites and then councils and then congresses. Being Anti-American is impossible unless you're a bulldozer and you just really want to push sand into the sea.
Now trying to ascribe a set of ideals and values; trying to make an ideology? Sure, you can do that. But that's Americanism, and something anyone anywhere can follow. That's a philosophy or a religion. And the reason no one would call it that is because if you say "Anti-American" instead of "Anti-Americanism" then it sounds like you'd better get the fuck on-board as long as you stand here. That way whoever holds the banner can say you have to swear fealty or feel bad.
It's all spectra.
Being anti-American is impossible. You know why? It's a hunk of rock surrounded by two pools and two hunks of rock that are ALSO American. America is a country. An arbitrary land. Borders negotiated and defined by kings and ministries and groups of elites and then councils and then congresses. Being Anti-American is impossible unless you're a bulldozer and you just really want to push sand into the sea.
Now trying to ascribe a set of ideals and values; trying to make an ideology? Sure, you can do that. But that's Americanism, and something anyone anywhere can follow. That's a philosophy or a religion. And the reason no one would call it that is because if you say "Anti-American" instead of "Anti-Americanism" then it sounds like you'd better get the fuck on-board as long as you stand here. That way whoever holds the banner can say you have to swear fealty or feel bad.
It's all spectra.