who does this smug tone help, may I ask? Do you actually care about fixing what's fucked about the world or is it more important that everyone phrase everything perfectly in your view?

I'm American, talking about Americans. 😑 But let me know what preferred pronoun works for you when thinking about what values I'd like to rebuild in my country.

"it was valuable that Americans *used* to think that we *should* be a force for good and be willing to reach out and help" ??

aka "when we thought helping was good, that was better"

Their point is that even if it's annoying exceptionalism, it was better that we identified with it as a shared virtue than nothing. Like at least the veneer over our completely soulless, dollar-above-all bullshit helped sometimes

NO

This reminds me of the time my roommate came in to ask what was wrong because I was trying to stifle my laughter at TikToks

“Champagne businesses in the US”

didn’t die! did get a lil nervy before takeoff and landing!

Love an em dash, appropriately used semicolon, and many a specific word. AI doesn’t get to change my writing style 😤