• FatVegan@leminal.space
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      Thank god you disagree. Otherwise they would bomb schools and terrorize the whole world.

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      Unfortunately a majority of Americans voted for this. The “rest of us” is actually a minority group. Maybe we are the majority now with this war, but a little over a year ago we were not.

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        The majority absolutely did not vote for this. Not only did a massive chunk of the population not even vote, but among those who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of those votes

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        The left: war is bad, because it hurts people. The right: we died enough for foreign issues. The rulling parties: did you say…more war?

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      Our country is run by bankers. There is no stretch of the imagination in which someone who works for us would vote to bail out the banks and not bail out the people.

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    To paraphrase a famous draft dodger

    They’re not war heroes. They were a war heroes because they was killed. I like people who weren’t killed.

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          he went into the worst warmongering army on the planet guilty of causing millions of deaths and a long history of warcrimes.
          Fuck that dead school girl killing POS

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            The worst? Gonna ignore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rape and slaughter of the civilian population? Gonna ignore China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs? The only reason you get to trash talk the US so bad is because (for now) we still have a press that can widely report (mostly) the truth about events and actions by this administration. Those other countries keep that shit under wraps so we don’t get any info better than limited second hand at best. I’m sure there’s even smaller countries doing BS to their own and other people, but they’re probably too small for you to soapbox and virtue signal about.

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    There’s like 2 groups in this country that are generally treated as sacred: “Little white GURHLS” and soldiers.

    Literally not that hard to fuck it up. Is it a little white girl that died or disappeared? Then treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face. Did a soldier just die in war? Then also treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face.

    This is clearly a violation of the “treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face” criteria but obviously we know that the media is focused on preserving power for the ownership class over the working class, so not terribly surprising.

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      A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it’s the “idea” of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as “our brave men and women”.

      Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.

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    TBF most people and politicians can’t name the dead no matter the war.

    I got my Combat Infantry Badge in the spring of 2002, my division commander was there, HRC was there, neither could name any of us let alone the casualties.