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They aren’t exceptional. They’re just like Russia.

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I’d argue we’re a lot more like the British empire in their glory days- exporting authoritarianism, subjugation, and hate globally, for as long as it serves our material benefit.

We learned from the best 🤷‍♂️

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16 points

We are not just like Russia.

We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.

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Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.

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Given that Russia has a competent government and isn’t on a verge of a civil war, not sure in what way America is like Russia.

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You call competent a government that pulled the “special military operation” and led hundreds of thousands of its people into death for not much of anything? You must be trolling.

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Yeah, I call a government that defeated NATO in Ukraine and manged to grow the economy despite the sanctions competent.

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Typical of American exceptionalism to stand other country on the verge of existential crisis and when they react call that “for not much of anything”

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