• Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    863 months ago

    So they’re admitting that Trump, a private citizen, interfered with US foreign policy, which is yet another crime.

    • @[email protected]
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      483 months ago

      Just like when Nixon sabotaged the Paris peace talks, or when Reagan betrayed the American hostages in Iran.

  • @[email protected]
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    683 months ago

    I would like to remind people this conflict is decades and decades old, it’s not a democrat thing, or republican thing. America has supported this genocide for over 50 years. The democrats and republicans of now will surely, if unfortunately, continue.

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    3 months ago

    People need to remember Netanyahu wants Trump in power, so is going to make decisions that are good optics for Trump when he can. He similarly made decisions that are bad optics for Biden on purpose. While Biden did himself no favors, never forget Netanyahu is the one who put him in that position.

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      3 months ago

      It’s so odd that the time line for this surge of fighting happened right through the election cycle. You know, it’s almost like if you were to coordinate political strategies with your allies you could find advantageous opportunities that serve each other to the disadvantage of your opponents. Except, that could never happen, right? Right? As if what appeared to be genocide was just sloppy blitzkrieg trying to cause as much damage as possible in a limited time frame.

      Ok, I’ll shut up now, I wouldn’t want people to think those with unlimited resources are capable of high level strategic warfare.

    • @[email protected]
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      273 months ago

      Henry Kissinger did something similar to delay the end of the Vietnam war, in order to get Nixon elected.

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      3 months ago

      Unfortunately there was a significant bloc of Arab-American (and just anti-genocide) US voters that thought trump cared about them and their plight. It was shortly after the election when he started hiring the most genocidal cabinet that they said, “hey!” There were a lot of articles about it. How people fell for that I don’t understand—well, I do, but I wish I didn’t. People can’t think two feet in front of their faces. They got on the whole “genocide Joe” train—which, let’s be real, this admin is very much bloody-handed. But that does not make the other option better. People cannot grasp nuance whatsoever. It’s an all-encompassing problem that manifested in this way this time.

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    3 months ago

    Well hey, one of the reasons one might stop a genocide is because it’s been accomplished. So they may end up being technically correct on the first part.

  • @[email protected]
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    193 months ago

    On the incredibly infinitesimally insignificantly microscopically small chance that Trump somehow accidentally but actually stops the genocide, I won’t bother looking that gift horse in the mouth. I’ll just be thankful and move on to the litany of other problems.

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      83 months ago

      Its the same with RFK wanting to legalise psychedelics in some way. Thats something that is in fact good, but that doesn’t compensate for him being not suited for this position.

  • circuitfarmer
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    173 months ago

    The fact that some people voted for a basically open fascist because of something happening outside of their country is fucking wild

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      283 months ago

      I just hate when they say one imperialist colonizer is bad (Israel) yet another good (Russia). Fucking hypocrites don’t actually care about the suffering - just the political wedge they can use.

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        123 months ago

        I haven’t ever even broached Tibet because I don’t think I could stomach witnessing the ensuing trainwreck of logic.

        It’s just so incredibly intellectually disingenuous. I got in it with one at one point (big mistake on my part) saying that no country or system is perfect, and a meaningful indicator evidencing critical thought is the capacity to criticize your own system. What, in their mind, were the top issues with China?

        1. Too much freedom in the market.
        2. Doesn’t project it’s system outside it’s border enough.

        Ok. I’m talking to a rational actor. Lol.

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          I’ve had so many CCP bootlickers send me so many headlines about how much people in China claim to love the CCP. Tankies pretend they don’t understand that a 99% approval rating is less indicative of a populace that adores their government, and more indicative of a populace afraid to criticize it.

          Part of what got me banned over there was pointing out that Adolf Hitler got 99.3% of the votes in his last election, and asking whether they reckon that was because he was just such a great leader

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    Are they still pretending they don’t support him? I thought for sure they’d all have given that ruse up the moment he won.

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      63 months ago

      Nah, they can go their entire lives pretending not to be dictator simps. When it comes to tankies, it was never about the communism and always about the tanks treading over the plebs.

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    123 months ago

    They’re not actually going to stop, the news will just stop reporting about it, because we’ve got distraction-in-chief on twitter again daring North Korea to nuke us.

    I remember 2017.

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        3 months ago

        I’ll be honest, I thought it would get worse and not better. I would love to be wrong.

        Either way the meltdown will be funny so I’m here for it.

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          23 months ago

          Oh it’s still quite likely that one side or the other will break the ceasefire and then it’ll get worse