• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      The US is a product of European colonialism and white centrism. It would be nice, for those of us whose ancestors were already here prior to 1492 and I am sure for those whose ancestors were forced here in the interim, if people would stop trying to pretend that everyone here has culpability in the current state of affairs. Native Americans have literally only had the right to vote since the 70s.

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          People from Europe seem to expect to not be lumped in with the latest dumbass bullshit from Hungry, or the UK, or even this latest chat control fiasco. Is it really that troublesome that people from a nation made up of dozens of states, reservations, islands, etc want the same?

          Edit for your edit: You said terrorist nation, not state.

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            It seems so difficult for a lot of Americans to understand that Europe consists of multiple independent countries, while USA is a single country.

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    I mean honestly, US presidents killing random people and families the world over for literally no reason is nothing new. On the scale of Trump stuff, this is pretty minor, as sad as that is to say.

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        Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven’t had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it’s an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it’ll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.

        (Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren’t fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)

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      It’s shocking how the media just repeat the statements of this government without any questions asked. They’re really functioning as propaganda distributors rather than journalists these days. We’re seeing it also with them repeating uncritically the FBI’s claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect.

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      The media is really careful about using “alleged” in cases where they obviously dont need to, in order to sow doubt, and not using it in cases where they definitely need to, to pretend that some bullshit narrative is certain even though the opposite is true

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    I mean, the first war crime had no consequences whatsoever, so why would he stop? I bet we’ll see more and more “extremely dangerous narcoterrorists” executed without due process or even a warrant - soon probably also within the US, not just on international waters…

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    Entire seasons of television have had plots based on the U.S. government doing this once, either secretly or by accident, and how they strive to make amends and reparations to avoid international conflict, and it all happens behind closed doors because everyone is terrified of the certainty of scandal should word ever get out. And now here we are.

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      No shit its a tiny fucking boat. Of course if they did that. Then we all know it was boat of fisherman and not drig dealers.

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        A glorious waste of a missile and millions of dollars - let alone the lives lost. They do love wasting money and the violence/evil is the point

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    And fuck every shit stain rag news site that prints “kinetic strike” without quotations.