Just to reinforce the point I just found this lol

So much of American politics seems like a manifestation of global trends that are completely ignored by the American commentariat

"ratios" don't exist anymore. this is you getting played.

I mean yeah it's kind of the same country lol

The entire justification for the US alliance, and the existence of the military itself hinges on presenting Indonesian and Chinese people as dangerous potential threats

Australia is also currently socio-culturally tied to North America, and there is still a massive gulf between us and East Asia because the culture here is deeply reactionary. Australia has always, always been defined in relation to the scary Asians over there and over the heads of Aboriginal people.

I think where the United States goes, Canada also goes. Right now the situation looks quite bad, but I still hold out hope that one day North America and Latin America will move forward together to abolish the capitalist mode of production.

Which in a certain way has worked out for the country, but most of the exports are still just fossil fuels, rocks and agricultural products because it has never needed to progress beyond its primitive 'settler-colonial outpost' mentality.

In Australia it's really just a left-leaning thing to be performatively anti-American and talk about Gough Whitlam and stuff, the majority of people don't think about any of it. You can present the country as a victim of US imperialism, but it has almost always been an active participant.

Australians 'hate' Americans in precisely the same way as Canadians do though, it's just a performance. Australian media consumption has been heavily Americanised for basically as long as television has existed, so people feel insecure about their cultural identity because it's so similar to the US.

Oh trust me, that's just how Australia feels. Seems like a very similar context wrt indigenous incarceration, land ownership, housing market, urbanisation etc. Australia has a slightly more distinctive cultural identity because it's more culturally homogenous, people are more racist because of that.

After the military coup in the 1960s the regime worked closely with the CIA and US government to destroy socialist movements across the rest of Latin America, it's really interesting

However, I would argue that Australia and Canada are equally reactionary culturally, but that it has manifested in a marginally different form.

I always think of the Brazilian socio-historical context as most directly analogous to that of the United States, and often their history has strong parallels even if they go about things in a different way.

This is what happens when you never have to learn your lesson ever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQO...