• MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    Now then, now then, don’t be trying to get ahead of us British colonizers! Our history is pretty murky. Something that is conveniently ignored, but gets you in hot water when you challenge our current fascists like Farage, Tommy Robinson and even mainstream leaders.

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    Thr USA killed way way way more than 10 million native americans. We will never know the true scale of the genecide because the majority of it was done through disease. Early settlers would deliberately trade goods contaminated with several european diseases that the natives had little or no resistance to, including small pox and several others I can’t remember off the top of my head. Explorers moving west described “virgin” country untouched by man, beautiful and bountiful, but they were wrong. What they saw was an environment shaped over thousands of years by humans for humans that once supported hundreds of millions of native americans, who were mostly dead by the time european explorers got there. The genecide everyone knows about was really just the end, picking off the stragglers. That was bad enough that it’s whitewashed in public schooling, but they don’t even teach the history of the biological warfare that did the vast majority of the work. In many ways the americas still bear the gaping wounds of european contact today. This place is built on a foundation genocide.

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    I say US needs to embrace French tradition and take up guillotines…

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      the french guillotine was used to kill more Africans and colonized people than any bourgeois or aristocrat

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          The underlying sentiment is right. Income inequality is higher than ever. Saying that we need to bring back guillotines is a simplified way of saying we need to solve the problem of concentration of wealth by plutocrats.

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              There is currently widespread violence. It is the structural violence of poverty. Hundreds are being socially murdered everyday.

              Killing an oligarch is a certainly a violent act, but it reduces the overall violence in the system.

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                Yeah, that’s totally the same as actual widespread violence. Pampered idiots have no idea what it’d be like to have to live somewhere like the way Ukraine has been.

                Killing an oligarch does absolutely nothing. Sure, that’ll “reduce poverty”. Of course it’s that simple in your lazy, immature worldview.

                Spare me your “I’m 14 and this is deep” bullshit.

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                  Yeah, that’s totally the same as actual widespread violence.

                  Your daily reminder that shitlibs don’t consider the killing of poors to be “actual” violence

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                  When Luigi killed that UHC oligarch, the company responded by lowering their claims denial rate by 1-2%. UHC processes hundreds of millions of claims every year.

                  Do the math- the slaying of Brian Thompson meant that millions of claims that would have otherwise been denied were approved.

                  By killing one oligarch, hundreds of lives were saved. Perhaps even thousands.

                  We know this because Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care

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    Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.

    • Joe Biden, 1986
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      • Biggest AIPAC recipient who earned the nickname Genocide Joe and took all his orders directly from Tel Aviv like a spineless sack of sand.

      In hindsight it’s very obvious why Biden said that but people still refuse to see the obvious truth.

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        Bigger than Trump?

        Biden authorized humanitarian aid to Gaza despite Israel’s wishes, but let’s ignore everything that disagrees with your propaganda while we elect Trump, who is in no way better for Palestinians.

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          Was it direct aid or aid Isreal needed to allow in? Because it is amazing how no aid seemed to get in under Biden while he loved to cover for war crimes

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          it’s amazing and deeply upsetting that shitty little pier that floated away in the first rainstorm is still effective propaganda for people like you

          Hitler could have convinced you he was the second coming of christ if you were born there and then

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    America definitely wouldn’t be doing it this brazenly without AIPAC. In all their previous genocides they fought for a major objective and managed to keep their propaganda alive.

    Now it’s all falling apart for a miniscule landgrab for a settler colony while not lending the weapons to Israel but giving it all for free.

    See Ukraine as an example for what realpolitik looks like. Gaza is not it.

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      They support and punish specific politicians and groups but AIPAC isn’t the driver, Zionism is an essential part of the US policy in the MENA region. Israel is essentially a colony of the US and it’s allies. They would be happy to do it less openly like they had been for decades, keeping Palestine subjected but not aggravating onlookers too much, but the right wing in Israel are blood-thirsty genociders.

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        There’s also the difference of access to information. The genocide in Gaza is one of the most televised genocides ever. Because people are able to see the truth of what’s happening and not just the propaganda that’s pushed, it means that it’s much harder for the Israeli and USA governments to control the narrative (like hiding the fact that the right wing in Israel is a bunch of blood-thirsty genociders)

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        Zionism is an essential part because Israel has told politicians it is. Even if it was essential, not obeying every Israel command doesn’t mean Zionism goes bye bye.

        Look at the UAE, Qatar and Saudi. They PAY they US to be proxy bases. The host US army personell and weapons and pay for it. And then Israel bombs Qatar that’s completely insane. People really don’t understand how bad that was geopolitics wise.

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    I guess all war is genocide? What a stupid take. If thats the case you dont really care about war or Genocide, actually I know you dont because your username is ALHouthi4President.

    There are some dam stupid people on this site and they almost always come from @lemmy.ml

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      You seem to imply that wars are okay, as long as they aren’t genocide? Is that what you’re using to defend?

      So then just kill/bomb indiscriminately, and you’re golden,right? What kind of rhetoric are you trying to bring that makes you think either is acceptable?

      ML is no place for discussing Chinese or Russian policies, but they’re good at exposing stupid wankies deflections like yours.

      Remember how hard you fuckwits tried to hide the Gaza genocide like you did in Afghanistan and Iraq?

      We’re fed up with your moral posturing.

      Stop killing people indiscriminately, okay?

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        you seem to imply that wars are okay, as long as they aren’t genocide?

        Nowhere did I imply that all wars are okay. I implied that the person who posted this meme is only pretending to care about the consequences of war.

        moral posturing over a complete strawman

        Dam dude you really owned that strawman im sure it will reconsider its entire moral framework and stop killing people indiscriminately.

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      The only events called “genocide” in this post are native Americans and gazans. The rest are similarly abhorrent massacres which aren’t categorized as genocides but serve to show the complete lack of morals on the US establishment.

      Maybe learn to read a post before complaining about the poster.

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    USA is an interesting empire. Will be studied for millenia. Thinking 100 or 150 more years left. Could be shorter we’ll see. Probably just turn into an ex super power, with little South American skirmishes everywhere…wait

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    Yet, they still manage to have concern for Uyghurs, who they didn’t know existed until imperial core propaganda started manufacturing bullshit about them.

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    Unfortunately and with greater hesitation, I shall say unto ya’ll & everyone else within earshot, a reluctant and nauseating amen.(On a personal level) I AM SO NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS! Bittersweet Dreams Everyone. At least if the day comes sooner than it may have come forty years ago( when my awareness of the “American” version became so very apparent. F it all! My principles & values have not budged in the slightest except perhaps become more accommodating and accepting of some marginalized communities that might have not been given the access & ability to address issues & needs of said communities. There is plenty to go around good peoples😃 Poke a few holes in a billionaires nutbag & let ‘er flow for everyone. Tis’ the season for philanthropy via other people’s $’s. Tough times, tougher titty mister. Ima ask you something, where is your passport? I know you think it’s where you thought it was. Don’t worry. I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.