The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has finalized a deal exempting U.S. multinational corporations from paying more corporate taxes overseas.
Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.
Oh, absolutely. I’m not saying that American exceptionalism is the root of all fascism, but it is certainly an excellent lubricant for it in the U.S.; you can get away with a lot if the populace believes that their actions are just, and much of the west has viewed the U.S. as the arbiter of justice.
The problem with American exceptionalism is more that the U.S. has held immense soft power for a very long time now. For example, it’s not just Americans that believe that they won WWII, people here in Europe believe that as well. Reality is obviously more complicated than that, yet people get utterly shocked when you bring up just how important the Russians were in WWII, and what a massive sacrifice of life they put down. Never mind that of India.
Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.
Oh, absolutely. I’m not saying that American exceptionalism is the root of all fascism, but it is certainly an excellent lubricant for it in the U.S.; you can get away with a lot if the populace believes that their actions are just, and much of the west has viewed the U.S. as the arbiter of justice.
The problem with American exceptionalism is more that the U.S. has held immense soft power for a very long time now. For example, it’s not just Americans that believe that they won WWII, people here in Europe believe that as well. Reality is obviously more complicated than that, yet people get utterly shocked when you bring up just how important the Russians were in WWII, and what a massive sacrifice of life they put down. Never mind that of India.