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  • Israel committing genocide is not the same thing as Biden supporting it, and conflating the two is completely dishonest.

    You can rightly condemn what Netanyahu’s government is doing while recognizing that the Biden administration was stuck trying to manage an official ally, push aid corridors, and broker hostage deals to stop a wider war.

    You want to see what actually supporting it looks like? Look at Trump telling Bibi to “finish the problem” and openly treating the annihilation and displacement of Palestinians like real estate development.

    Lumping Biden, who was actively pushing for restraint and humanitarian corridors, in with an authoritarian who cheers on the slaughter is the exact lazy, cartoonish framing I was calling out.

    Edit: To be clear, I am separating being a bad president from being a bad person. Biden was bad. Obama was mediocre, a big part of why being that he used weapons way too many times. But bad policies and failed presidencies don’t automatically make someone a cartoon villain.



  • Equating individual street crime with official state foreign policy funded by your tax dollars is pure intellectual dishonesty. A rogue criminal acting against the law isn’t the same as a government executing global policy in your name with public resources.

    You’re spiraling into unhinged extremes because you can’t face the uncomfortable truth: the rest of the world doesn’t care about your clean conscience while we deal with the material fallout of your empire. When the policies of your state disrupt global stability, hiding behind “but I’m just an innocent bystander” is exactly why nothing ever changes. You don’t get a gold star for passive disapproval.


  • It’s not a strawman. You said they were good people.

    Maturity is realizing that bad people think they’re the good guys too.

    Sure, bad people usually think they’re the good guys. But maturity is realizing the world isn’t black and white to begin with.

    Biden and Obama are shades of grey like everyone else. Obama did plenty of awful things. Acknowledging that doesn’t make him a cartoon villain, just like admitting he did good things doesn’t make him a saint.

    Good people do bad things, bad people do good things. Put a drop of milk in coffee, it’s still coffee. Put a drop of coffee in milk, it’s still milk.

    Funny enough, we teach this to children and is actually Christian doctrine that the Trumpublicans claim to believe in, but clearly don’t.


  • I directly quoted you.

    Judging an entire country for the actions of some of it’s people is the problem.

    I have said this many times over the last 18 months, and only Americans have ever denied its reality. I DON’T FUCKING CARE WHO THE TANK DRIVER VOTED FOR WHEN THE TANKS ROLL INTO MY COUNTRY

    What are you doing to stop your government? Are you doing anything real, or just saying, “Stop! Or I’ll say Stop again!”

    It will always just be ignorant hatred.

    There’s where your wrong. I don’t have ignorant hatred. Ignorance of an issue is an American trait. I have well educated hatred. I would guarantee I probably know more about your country than 90% of the people who live there.

    you just don’t realize it because you don’t live here

    Another assumption by an ignorant American. I spent 6 years and left that shit hole country. Armed security guards patrolling grocery stores, bollards in front of building entrances because people drive through them, metal detectors at the entrance to buildings, laying on the floor in an ER thinking I was dying while they verified my health insurance, people thinking it’s OK to voice racist things to me because I’m white, unidentifiable chemicals in the food I ate, the steady stream of propaganda, two right wing parties who have rigged the system so only right wingers can be elected, a ridiculous byzantine labyrinth of laws that make it so something is a crime but step 2 meters to the right and isn’t, cultural imperialism saying that Americans and America is the best constantly, an institutionalized slavery system disguised as a prison system, gun laws so lax they might as well be in vending machines… god I could go on and on about all the reasons why we left.

    That is the mindset that starts wars and then continues to blame everyone else for the war you started.

    So much lack of self awareness here. YOUR COUNTRY IS STARTING WARS! Every war since 1946 has been driven by either Russia or the United States. Let’s see, what wars has the US started (or at least helped start but didn’t call them wars because it’s political cover); Iraq 1 & 2, Panama, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, Yemen, Syria, Dominican Republic, Afghanistan (2000s and 80s), Korea, Nicaragua, Libya, Yugoslavia, Congo, Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Angola, Iran (50s, 80s and of course now).

    And always with “RAH RAH” names like “Operation Enduring Freedom”, “Operating Uphold Democracy”, “Operation Deliberate Force”, “Operation Power Pack”, “Operation Epic Fury”

    The CIA, the US military and the US government has been interfering in other countries affairs for over 100 years. Some to create vassals, some to destabilize for economic gain, some seeming just because. Cuba was embargoed because of it’s ties to the Soviet Union, and left in economic ruin. The Soviet Union fell 35 years ago so why is Cuba still embargoes, and actually still under threat? Well, for one reason, it’s to keep the atrocity factory at the marine base open. A convenient place to commit war crimes where the legal system can’t touch the perpetrators.

    I’m sure you would if you could and then you would blame the victim.

    Again, the self awarelessness you have is staggering. That’s your countries playbook. Your president (and yes he is YOUR president, he represents YOU) is a professional victim. Every single thing he does is because of some grievance created in the minds of Americans. He didn’t pop out of a vaccuum, he’s the personification of the ID of the United States.

    It doesn’t matter what I say to people like you, you will never look in a mirror, you just want to attack the world and cry because it makes you sad to do so.

    Jesus fucking Christ. Your lack of self awareness would be comical if it wasn’t so pathetic. Every accusation by an American is an admission.



  • do you not think that Obama and Biden did those things

    You built a strawman, I rejected it, so you added more straw.

    Biden and Obama did some bad things

    I said Obama and Biden did bad things. What part of that wasn’t clear?

    Motivation matters more than you are implying. I would prefer no one did anything shitty, but I live in the real world. A good person doing shitty things is infinitely better than a shitty person doing shitty things. The good person will show restraint and attempt to contain damage. A shitty person won’t care who get’s in the way or what happens, as long as they get whatever self-enriching thing they are trying to achieve.



  • The greater problems that the entire human race faces.

    The vast majority being caused directly by the United States, and the rest not directly caused, being worsened by a country that refuses to give up on it’s decadence and opulence for the greater good.

    The attitude that because the rest of the world holds all Americans accountable for the actions of the United States makes us pieces of shit is exactly what I would expect from an American.

    Outside the US, you can actually learn something on TV. It’s not all talking heads and propaganda in most countries.

    Newsflash for you. The United States isn’t the way it is because you elected Donald Trump. Donald Trump got elected because the United States is the way it is.


  • I’m better than the people who bury their head in the sand and pretend like their country hasn’t become a fascist dictatorship.I’m better than people who can’t see past the end of their own nose. I’m better than people who don’t care enough about the world outside their own borders to learn a fucking thing about other places. I’m better than people who assume that they are better than other people who had a geographical quirk of birth. I’m better than people who profit and benefit from the misery of others but claim that there is nothing they can do because, “I didn’t vote for it”.




  • Whataboutism, the classic argument of someone with no point.

    I’ll save you the history research. We had some really shitty people, and when we found out they were shitty, we got rid of them, or if they were already gone, we taught in school why they were shitty and told kids to not do shitty things to other people. And we don’t make it illegal to teach our kids that we had shitty people in our past.

    As opposed to a country that re-elected a convicted criminal, rapist and most likely pedophile and seems more concerned with checking the inside of a child’s underwear than the fascists running the country.