• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Welcome to conservative America.

    Who knew giving a group of people with a notably low IQ and an absence of morality power would lead to what we’re seeing?

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      Who knew, right?

      Meanwhile, Presidents have been ignoring the Constitution since at least Reagan, they’ve repeatedly murdered people around the world and bombed half of Africa, the Middle East, and South America… and not one of them ever declared war.

      Democrats won’t save you, they are sitting at the table with Nazis so they are Nazis and so on

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      That really makes the rest of us in the world happy to hear that the country bombing everyone and trying to intimidate allies is full of citizens who are utterly fucking useless.

      Ya’ll would do well to remember that, unless you actually do something, we don’t give a shit about how upset you are. You are a citizen of the US and I have some sympathy for that but when try to deflect like this that sympathy quickly evaporates. It reads loud and clear like you care more for your personal reputation than anything else.

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        Well, we do murder and assault each other at rates about 5x that of our European allies, and our cops kill us sometimes 20x the rate of our allies. We don’t just export violence, we have a thriving domestic trade in it as well. And it’s becoming increasingly politically motivated. My neighborhood has a squad of paramilitary Proud Boy wannabes that goes jogging every morning in their tactical gear and ARs. They’re not cops, not military, not ICE, just dudes drilling for the war. While the left didn’t ever not own guns, it’s surging. We’ve got LGBTQ gun groups, women only gun groups, socialist gun groups, and mutual aid networks on both sides kicking into high gear for the hunker down. I get that it’s frustrating to watch American leadership sow chaos globally, but internally our fight isn’t just with them, it’s with every one of our neighbors that supports it. Remove Trump and they’ll just move on to the next strong man. It’s the legacy of letting the Confederacy stew in its loss generation after generation and failure to prevent them from seeking power. There’s still a sliver of hope we can vote our way out of this when elections come, though I doubt that will work. It’ll be interesting to see what goes down when that fails and the regime declares itself dictator for life. You’ll either see the US decline into Russian style authoritarianism or a bloody shitshow as the most heavily armed populace in world history revenges itself on itself.

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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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          chunk of the population not even vote

          This is also a choice. And in 2024 it was absolutely obvious that it’s a choice for Trump.
          Majority, supermajority even, either wanted Trump to be an absolute leader, or was OK with it.

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            This is also a choice.

            You need to get out more. Or educate yourself on the issue. Believe it or not, it’s not always a choice. That’s just a fact of life here in the US that getting out or self-education will help you realize.

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              77M voted for Trump against 75M for Harris. So the majority voted for Trump, despite everyone telling them what a shitshow it would be. Which we can now witness on a daily basis.

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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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      Wait until you figure out those bankers are INTERNATIONAL, and the cash pipeline for war across the globe.

      Their capital used to be the UK, now it is the USA; the same banks have been around since the 1800s and financing every war through DEBT; they control the FED and the US dollar, which is used in over 50% of all international trade.

      It’s not hidden, check out JP Morgan, Deutsch Bank, Goldman Sachs, and so on.

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      I mean, a very similar story was told when George W. Bush was in office. Someone had some oil that needed some American Freedom… I mean, WMDs! They had WMDs…

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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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              Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is way less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.

              China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it’s not even closely comparable to the other two. The closest widely-known comparison is perhaps the Japanese internment camps the US did during WW2, but less widespread.

              US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you’re (a small) part of the problem.

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              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

              Oh dear God, where to even start?

              I give up

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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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        “The troops” is a nebulous idea you always wholeheartedly support, but any particular vet who goes to the VA becomes a drain on the system to be discarded asap.

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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.

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          Yes, of course.

          But being murdered while being hired as a murderer makes it

          A) expected B) natural selection C) less impactful to my life

          Oh no wait, it’s soldiers, so it’s no murder, but a simple job. My bad, sorry 😁

          And if your country forces you to die for some capital gains for your owners: leave that shit hole.