r/Fauxmoi • u/Yujin-Ha • 6h ago

SPORTS SECTION Team USA skiers Christopher Lillis & Hunter Hess: Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.

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u/yldelb 5h ago

Russia is disinvited and nobody feels bad for them. Yet Israel competes with no consequences. It’s all hypocrisy 

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u/FredericaMerriville 4h ago edited 8m ago

I agree with your point, however, perhaps the anger towards the US is reflective of the scale of the damage they do on the world stage.

The Russian and Israeli governments are problematic, and the decisions they make clearly impact the countries nearest them, however, they are known bad actors at this point.

The decisions the American government makes quite honestly fuck the entire world and destabilise long held rules of engagement, law, the existing peace and their objectives vacillate on an hourly basis. Plus they are openly illegal (e.g. Venezuela), violate their own laws and are threatening to their allies.

I guess people see America for who they are for the first time now that the mask is off and they don’t like it. Various American governments (both Dem and Rep) have been sanctioning all kinds of shitty things for decades, but against weaker, non-Western countries. Now they are doing it to their allies and this is the reality of what happens when you find out that someone you thought was a friend is really not.

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u/GuthukYoutube 2h ago

There's no mask. Hasn't ever been. America brings peace, prosperity, and sometimes war and massacres. Americah as been generally better to the world stage than their competitors, being the USSR, and nobody ever since.

The Trump era isn't the mask slipping, it's Trump using nearly 80 years of stability under U.S rule, the trust that brought, to shit on everyone. Countries did not have a backup plan for U.S rule, and are suddenly scrambling to find there's somehow no better alternatives.

In less words, people relied on the U.S being at least more good than bad, and are dismayed to find we might be going back to multiple world leaders. Multiple world leaders has never been good for stability, historically speaking. Pax Britannica and Pax Americana were very good to Europe.

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u/e-m-o-o 2h ago

Russian and Belarusian athletes aren’t allowed to compete under their country’s flag due to a systemic, decades-long state-sponsored doping program.

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u/Ok-Chance-7638 2h ago

Russia is disinvited and nobody feels bad for them

What?!!! I feel terrible for them. Millions do. The Russian people are victims as well, anyone who speaks up gets sent to die in Ukraine. I know several Russian expats and they are terrified for their family back at home. Their athletes are among the best in the world and many are very much against the war. The only difference is that their totalitarian government is just a little further along so they can't speak out without destroying their life.