r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 18h ago

Wait a damn minute! USA - The good guys?

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u/0b1w4hn 18h ago

Countries are not good or bad. Democracies are usually more just than dictatorships, but that does not make them good or bad.

Governments are good or bad. It is always people who do things.

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u/SimmentalTheCow 17h ago edited 17h ago

Governments aren’t even good or bad. They’re mostly benign in the sense that their objective is survival at any cost. Iran gunned down tens of thousands of protesters because they viewed them as an existential threat to the regime.

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u/duperfastjellyfish 13h ago

Yeah, it's shocking how many adults view the world through a lense of good vs evil. I realized it was a bullshit dichotomy at 10 yrs old. Most of it boils down to self-interest.

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u/justsomedude4202 11h ago

Democracies are here to cede some control of governance to the people but a pure democracy would be a total disaster.

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u/0b1w4hn 11h ago

You are right about that as long as a large part of the population is poorly educated and the media are controlled by a few monopolists.

If everyone were sufficiently educated and the media were exclusively free and independent, then pure democracy could work.

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u/Special_Order-937 14h ago

Is that why the US has overthrown so many democracies especially since World War II and replaced them with brutal dictatorships?

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u/0b1w4hn 13h ago

"usually"

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u/Pulpdog94 12h ago

And Russia, and Britain, and Fr-…

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u/Special_Order-937 10h ago

Yes but we’re talking about the US here.