That’s every American. Americans have only ever known war and destruction and it’s shown by the way you act and push yourselves militarily on the world.
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bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 month ago
"Biden is a warmonger", " Kamala is a warmonger"🤦
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Blanket statements are fun.
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
For your useless sentence.
dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
As a 50 year old adult, I’ve read that before as well as many other things that put out the truth over not wanting to hide shameful historical events.
I’ve been beaten by cops at antiwar protests, fought cops at the Seattle WTO protest, and have proudly thrown punches against fascists since the 1990s.
I say all this because I know for a god damn fact that I don’t support war regardless of where it is. And I am not alone in that sentiment.
But, I’ll get to the point: placing all Americans as culpable in the acts of a government is a blanket statement. I’m pissed with a lot of the people here too, but I’ll never believe I’m the only person who stands against this country’s war machine.
Sidhean@piefed.social 1 month ago
I am the PRESIDENT of PEACE, okay? The PRESIDENT of PEACE.
taco@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
"Drag queens prey on children", "trans people are groomers", "Biden is senile"
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“and so is Trump and Bush and Obama”
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There can be multiple assholes…
Like, Biden literally violated the Leahy law
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law
There was credible evidence US weapons were used in Israels’s genocide of Palestinians.
Congress didn’t immediately approve more aid, so Biden unilaterally (and illegally) went around Congress to provide arms that then were used to commit genocide.
Is trump worse?
Fucking obviously.
But Joe Biden is a fucking monster and Kamala repeatedly and proudly told anyone that would listen she’d be exactly the same.
EisFrei@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How far back do we need to go until we find a president that didn’t commit a war crime?
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You could make a case for the Carter administration. The worst knocks against him were arms sales to Indonesia after their invasion of East Timor and to the Shah before the Iranian Revolution. Probably some reactionary leaders in South America too.
Besides that you’d have to go all the way back to Hoover who may have been completely unequipped to resolve the Great Depression but did do a ton of work with humanitarian food aid during and in the wake of the First World War. It’s very likely he saved tens of millions of lives from starvation.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow you’re really softballing the fact that Carter helped commit genocide there.
Zexks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not fucking obvoously. Since these kinds of arguments led us to trump 2.0. So thanks for that.
locuester@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The truth led us to Trump, so we should conceal it instead? What garbage.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Well, that fucking scans.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The Secretary of State is appointed by the President though.
And I’m certain they argued there was no credible information Israel committed gross violations of human rights. Maybe it was only “normal” violations of human rights. Or maybe the information was somewhat incredible. Or maybe the Secretary of State said “LALALALALALALA” and closed their eyes and ears when presented with information so they didn’t technically have it.