My mom is a Jewish Russian-American, 3rd generation, granted, but she regularly brings up her Russian heritage in weird self-flagellation shows of devotion to the State Department. If anything reminds her that Putin exists, anything at all, she goes on long genocidal rants about how Russians are evil and there’s something wrong with their brains - to prove she’s not a hypocrite she then says she’d volunteer to be executed herself if that was the only way to get rid of all Russians.
I pointed out that she is - verbatim - repeating Nazi rhetoric about people they tried to exterminate, and my mother, who, again, is Jewish on top of ethnically Russian, starts going in circles about how no, PUTIN is the next Hitler, because Russians are evil, we’re evil, oh my god we’re so evil, what is WRONG with us?!
Rachel Maddow has turned my mother into a hysterical gibbon and I don’t know how to fix it.
It’s funny how American nationalists expect this hegemony to maintain itself while they simultaneously let corporations strip every last piece of copper out of the country’s walls.
It’s wanting to sell your cake to the highest bidder, and eat it too. Ya can’t. Ya sold it. It’s gone. And the buyer has no interest in selling it back, instead we’re all going on cake subscriptions for $17.99 a month.