I think it depends how old you are. Whatever fucked up shit was going on when you were 15-25. America makes new disillusionment material all the time…

For me it was the Iraq war under Bush and then the bank bailouts under Obama. Made me question if we’re the baddies both abroad and at home, under both parties, who is this system actually designed to serve?

:sicko-yes:

As a ~12 year old, watching some random person’s music video to a punk song with extremely brutal images of the Iraq War (child with half their head blown off is the one that I still see when I close my eyes).

I mean really it’s continuous mini realisations - I don’t even live in the US anymore but US propaganda is strong and it’s hard to kill the US imperialist in your head lol. The feeling that my high school was racially segregated in a way that my elementary school wasn’t. The family history of a friend of mine, whose parents were refugees - his mom fled American bombs in one country and his dad in another :') Seeing American hypocrisy re how they condemned state violence at e.g. the Maidan and then used similar or worse state violence at Standing Rock and Ferguson. Etc etc.

there was this correspondents dinner , where bush was searching the white house to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction…

The Audience the "who is who " of the media , did find the joke hilaroius …

Thats when i knew , it was a single thing…