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The US emits some strange message of equality, privacy, rights, freedom, justice, a shining beacon of hope...mixed in with secret police forces that operate with impunity. I think that is an incompatibility that will eventually need to be worked out.

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Words are a thing, actions are another that speak much louder.

The words are a mix of propaganda, historical but now obsolete, projected image, biased self-perception and even party true but only when applied to the US not to the rest of the world.

Other countries also engage in a similar propaganda, but only a few have the nuisance potential of the US, such as China.

It will be worked out eventually, maybe 20 to 50 years from now, when China says "ok that's enough young man, now go sit down and behave yourself".

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