Pathetic

Homophobic and stupid. Shocking.

Lmfao didn’t read a lick of what I said. Fuck off idiot

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Yes but the word literally has an actual definition now that means the complete opposite of literally. Words and their definitions only hold so much water before people can just decide what they actually mean.

So I refuse to let zionists own the term and believe it should be used to point out their hypocrisy. Zionists are antisemitic, I’d argue they’re the most antisemitic group.

Also the whole concept of ethnic groups is unserious it’s made up grouping that I guess can be used to help specify what someone is talking about but overall it’s a group of languages and as far as I know the only ethnic group that derives their identity in this way which is extremely odd, to me at least.

But it has and currently is. In Russia the lie about denazification has been the justification for invading Ukraine. It’s also been used to delegitimize protests specifically in Hong Kong in 2019 where people were told the protesters were fascists, nazis and radicals.

On top of that Zionism and Zionist is not a slur. People identify as zionist. That’s why the comparison to Nazi is perfectly apt both are ideologies people openly embrace.

In the same light Nazi can be slung as an insult so can Zionist but that doesn’t make it a slur it is a legitimate neutral political term just like Nazi.

Literally don’t care. They’re supremacists.

People who have very German names have been called Nazis both as a joke and as an insult. Doesn’t change anything. It’s your actions. If you’re being an asshole and not a Nazi and someone calls you a Nazi, it means nothing it’s just like being called an asshole.

Zionists are antisemitic. Palestinians are a semitic people. Zionists are bigots and racial supremacists. Disgusting people.

Friend of mine has trump family. They’d watch Alex jones every week.

Now in conversation they do this weird like tail between their legs thing where they kinda talk bad about him, but never too much and act like he betrayed them.

I’ve really only responded with a like “well, the rest of us knew. Why didn’t you ever listen when people warned you?” At best they just give a disgruntled yeah and whatever. They’ll vote for him again in 2028 and not think anything of it. They’re idiots and their brains are rotten

The Russian play book.

I don’t disagree Nixon was huge but I think it goes from before that.

I personally really think it started directly at the start with the creation of the political parties, something Washington foresaw but also the establishment of America by the wealthy slave owning elite made this direction inevitable. But we could argue a lot about that.

Andrew Johnson’s presidency and the assassination of Lincoln left scars that never healed and created the mould that I think the conservative base still stems from. Ever heard that quote “the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” I really think there’s a weirdo psychic hole these people experienced without even being fully aware. A lot of them come from former slave owning rich families and that underlying knowledge they used to have wealth did something to them.

You can also look at the wannabe coup against FDR, the Business Plot, rich fucks basically wanted to overthrow FDR.

Those three things to me really set the groundwork and then marches in Allen Dulles and his CIA. In a conversation with Charles de Gaulle, JFK admitted he didn’t have control over the intelligence apparatus which was plotting to assassinate de Gaulle.

Then marches in Nixon and not soon after Reagan. The culture divide from the dawn of America, the humiliated and now destitute former slave owners with generational anger, the tycoons and their confidence to plot and peel away at democracy, a compromised intelligence apparatus with a black budget likely stemming from drug and human trafficking which they are in charge of investigating.

Suddenly the whole scene is set. The wealthy get their Epsteins, their cocaine, the means to hide it, the political pawns to support it and an ignorant, desperate base to use as their voting bloc. Gerrymandering only makes it all too easy especially with the broken representation system where smaller populations literally have more voting weight.

Government transparency, wealth distribution and strong social safety nets to reinforce education and healthcare, ranked voting, an end to gerrymandering and a heavy blow to how votes matter are, to me, the first steps to start fixing some of this shit.

I agree they’re running low on fuel. But a cornered rat and all that.

My nationalistic ego? I’m literally talking about the things the US has done wrong. I’m telling you there are two sides of the coin and acting like the US is unique in these actions or completely a Disney villain is for edgelord 15 year olds who don’t understand what happened in history and how we ended up here with such a dominant and cruel version of the US.

America only ‘helps’ countries when it aligns with its broader strategic goals.

Lol as opposed to who? Financially no other country has ever matched the support the US has applied against the world, the EU might be the only entity that has come close and you could say China has also invested overseas but not to the same degree or for the same amount of time. Outside of that, other countries tend to be pretty selfish or not have the monetary strength to do the same.

Your portrayal is one of boo hoo America. I just listed to you like a dozen things the world benefited from this relationship. I also just listed to you the same exact behavior China has also employed of acting out of its own interest. So what the fuck are you talking about? Absolutely brain dead my guy.

In the wake of WWII, America set up a global system that bent the whole world to its service.

Real footage of FDR and Truman sealing away the world in a single night.

Yes. The US used it’s new position as a global leader to leverage itself into a strong position. As I said before this is exactly how you’d expect any country to act.

They helped rebuild Europe, helped establish NATO and the World Bank, the WHO, , and were able to spread US cultural to the globe. Just as any single country would’ve done. Over the next century they managed to continue developing that same game plan. This genuinely helped stabilize the globe.

The civil rights activists in the US ironically also formulated the blueprint for oppressed people across the world to fight for their civil rights in the era that followed alongside the Nuremberg Trials.

They also leveraged their military might to set up a new type of colonialism in countries like Greece, Guatemala, Korea and Vietnam, among others.

You’re desire to continue to paint the US as this big bad creature that only wanted to conquer is genuinely ignorance. I’ll repeat what I said, the US acted exactly like I’d expect any other country to act. It is not black and white, it is history which is almost always grey.

But no it’s everyone else who’s had it too cushy for too long.

Uhh what the fuck are you talking about? When I said this in referring directly to the US being too cushy for too long.

Look I’m not arguing with you this is reality. Your position is clearly one of “boo hoo America” which is very not unique and your attempt to make people defend the US is silly.

Being asked by multiple countries for the last century to show up and help restore order, relied upon to ensure people have a degree of safety, food and water while providing means to fight some of the worst illnesses affecting the world is absolutely being looked to as a “global police force”

When Pol Pot was committing a genocide people asked why US didn’t continue to fight it, as the Rwandan genocide was happening America was expected to be doing something about it, when the Syrian civil war broke out and chemical weapons were used people asked why the US didn’t act, as Ukraine and Palestine are being genocided people literally curse America for not doing more. It is a constant expectation to act because the US has the means to act. You’re gonna tell me all the reasons X, Y and Z why it is their fault or something but if they did act you’d consider it them dredging up more soft power. So which is it?

On the same line why hasn’t China stopped the Palestinian genocide? Why didn’t China stop funding Pol Pot’s genocide? Why didn’t China stop selling weapons that contributed to the Rwandan genocide? Why doesn’t China stop funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Why doesn’t China stop their predatory loans to Sri Lanka and Zambia which is causing an economic collapse? The Democratic Republic of Congo has 7 million people displaced because of fighting over minerals like cobalt that China buys, they’re literally funding that violence too. I guess China is allowed to engage in growing soft power at the cost of blood because of whatever dumb reason? You’re not running around in these comments crying about any of that.

Your views and expectations of these countries are different, and you don’t understand your own perspective in that.

The argument isn’t did the US benefit. It’s not “what was their motive”. The fact is other countries relied upon the US and asked for aid often. Literally just the truth, spin it however you like to fit your world view that’s fine but your position is transparent and very ignorant trying to frame everything as black and white because you have a single legume rolling around your skull in place of a brain.

The US can both be the reason why smallpox, polo and the guinea worm aren’t tearing through society and also have a history of terrible imperialist actions. The US is completely capable of dispensing aid and protection while also using that as a political resource. The world isn’t full of infinite resources, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours is probably the oldest human understanding.

Both China and the US and every other country operates exactly how I’d expect them to. So go on with your buts and denials, they’re silly. It’s “I got my opinion on Reddit and lack any complex thinking America bad!”

Uhh disaster relief? Humanitarian aid? The US military might be one of the best logistical avenues for dispersing aid in the world.

Militarily - Iraq under Obama. Liberia in 2000. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the 90s. The Philippines multiple times. Lebanon and South Korea in the 50s. Most notably WWII.

Those are the ones off the top of my head.

Despite what the Internet wants to tell you about American intervention, it is often requested by governments under threat.

You’re gonna snap back about something something imperialism I can feel it but as I said above, most Americans don’t really want to be doing that at all. It is often America is looked to for aid both humanitarian and militarily and for good reason, the Ebola outbreak, various famines, the United States dedicated more effort to eradicating AIDS/HIV and malaria. So yeah. People looked to America for help quite often.

I’m not saying it was. There was an expectation from allies to act as such.

Good. There’s a massive misunderstanding I think from most of the world they Americans wanted America to operate the way it was, we don’t. We haven’t for a long time.

There was always this double edged sword that we both weren’t supposed to be the global police force but also expected to be one? I’m glad it’s been flushed away. Too cushy for too long.

My first thought when he said that.

Kids dying isn’t complex bro. Like isn’t he fuckin Irish?

This is why the voters are growing so sick about any negative sentiment towards imperfect Democrat candidates.

Republicans are literally crying about a streamer and telling a mayor to not go to a 9/11 memorial based on his skin color.

Didn’t that one kid get stuck as a bird?

I will say though it does seem like his supporters are falling fast. The most ardent supporters of his I know have suddenly been saying very negative things about him

There’s also a dude who had a huge trump sign in his yard for years, like a big wooden one he clearly made himself. He took it down.

Another guy had a huge FJB and a bunch of pro trump signs outside like real crazy anti vax kinda shit, a lot of them. All gone.

Not saying they’re all done but they’re clearly showing signs of regret and embarrassment. Hammer the shame now while we can and maybe they’ll keep themselves shut the fuck up for the next 10-20 years