[zinodaur]

It’s nice that Americans are being so open about how they feel about other countries these days.

[overfeed]

"these days"? Too many countries/HNers are only just figuring out it's not fun being at the sharp-end of imperialism.

[unethical_ban]

What part are you bothered about? The concept of nations?

[zinodaur]

Sibling comment summed it up pretty well; my country is considered an ally of yours, but even left leaning Americans seem to take it for granted that we deserve mass AI surveillance/blackmail/manipulation if there’s a chance it could benefit us citizens in the short term. I suppose we deserve it for being complicit in American crimes for so long