James McCann
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no one else would i talk about this i think about this a lot that like if anyone else had discovered the nuclear weapon that's it you'd have global hegemony by one power well i think that is one thing about america that most people will agree to is that we like to think of ourselves as being the best country in america and that comes with responsibility being the greatest superpower comes with responsibility that's why people get real uncomfortable about like
drone bombing statistics and shit like that, they get real uncomfortable.
Because it makes you really question what we do.
When you tell people, did you know that more than 80% of the people that die in drone bombings are civilians?
accidental kills every time someone tries to be nice about obama then they have to go that were the drone bombings yeah a lot of innocent people i know they always have to do that you know listen i think we found out through obama most likely what you find out through anybody that gets through there that's not trump is that they immediately co-opt you into the system you had no idea how the system worked until you got in there you were a senator for two years
and then all of a sudden you're president.
You have some amazing ideas and you're a great spokesperson and probably the best statesman we've ever had.
Like the best representative of the best about America.
A guy who is from a single mom, grew up poor, didn't have a silver spoon in his mouth.
Forget about all the narratives of him being related somehow to the Bushes.
Oh, there's like a whole conspiracy theory.
But the point is that what you got-
is a guy who is promoting hope and change right and that's what we were all really hoping was going to happen but not it was really kind of like another bush term in terms of like foreign policy in terms of a lot of things in terms of like the way america felt about america though it was good it was like hey racism has obviously like stopped being an issue to get you to be the president of the united states because a black man just won and it's not saying that racism doesn't exist but we're doing better than we used to do
This was not possible when Martin Luther King Jr.
was making his I Have a Dream speech.
But it is possible now.