Thread by @Nick_Carmody

This brings to mind the rhetoric of the Bush 43 presidency:

"They hate us because of our freedom"

This probably exists an entirely different level as tens of millions of Americans refuse a live saving vaccine that much of the rest of the world doesn't have access to.
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We are not hated because of our freedom.....but to the extent that we are "hated", it's because we are a country of decadence, arrogance, and ignorance:

While much of the world starves, we eat for sport (competitive eating)

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...and while much of the world is at risk of dying from a pandemic from which they lack adequate vaccine supplies.....

....Tens of millions of Americans engage in freedom-fetishizing, anti-vax, culture-war "virtue-signaling", performative obstinance: 3/

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Speaking of hate, reached a point where arguably no one hates this country more than the political right.....8/