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ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Just to add to the convversation about western symbols, I was nauseated to learn that in Iraq, the Beretta M9 pistol carried by Americans has become a symbol of summary execution, visual shorthand for being taken into an alley and canoed.

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ennemi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Iraq which, famously, possessed no actual WMDs. But this time around western media can totally be trusted to report on US state enemies reliably, even though absolutely nobody was held accountable and nothing has changed.

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- 420blazeit69@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And if you disagree with the State Department this time (despite the grand American tradition of lying to get into wars), you ignorant, you’re a useful idiot, you’re a bot, you must be getting paid, you must not know the first thing about this region I never thought about until it started to show up on the news.
  
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uralsolo@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is why the international symbol for getting someone who actually deserves is it the-doohickey

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PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Source please

This seems more whataboutism that is common from extreme ideologies.

You do realize that the Tariq pistol was manufactured in Iraq, which was a licensed copy of the Beretta? This was the go-to sidearm of Saddam’s Ba’athist party, whom were fascist.

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- Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  This seems more whataboutism that is common from extreme ideologies.
  
  I was a young fence-sitter like you once, you’ll grow out of it.
  
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- AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Can you explain how bringing up unbidden something about US history is ‘whataboutism’ and responding to that by saying that the previous regime, who didn’t kill a million people over 10 years, was also bad is not “whataboutism”?
  
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- ennemi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s never whataboutism to point out hypocrisy. Denounce in a way that’s consistent and not self serving, or don’t do it.
  
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- Flinch@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  You do realize that the Tariq pistol was manufactured in Iraq, which was a licensed copy of the Beretta? This was the go-to sidearm of Saddam’s Ba’athist party, whom were fascist.
  
  Whataboutism.
  
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