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    The US was a mistake. So much about the country is hideous and vain. I genuinely instinctively trust people from Canada and Mexico more because I’ve had genuinely terrible interactions with US Americans on pretty regular basis. What people say about Israeli tourists holds true for Americans as well, the world has been forced to accept what the US has done to other places as morally good somehow.

    This era is ending and I say to hell with the devil that is the American state

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      Friend, I can’t say I disagree with you. But please don’t let a relatively small percentage of people skew your thoughts of all of us. I don’t think all Israelis are evil, just like I don’t think all Canadians are nice. I know there’s little that I personally can do to sway your mind. Just know that some of us are trying to right the ship and still trying to be good.

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        All is an exaggeration but a vast majority isn’t when you talk about Israel. It’s basically actual demons with body counts, the loud but scared ones who support them, the shy ones who support them tacitly and then a minority (usually religious Jews, so basically actual Jews) who oppose Israel because they know it’s a hellish creation. And those get beat up by the cops and arrested all the time. There’s way more diversity in America so I think it’s not as bad as Israel, ofc, but don’t forget they’re both Western bloodthirsty settler colonies that commited genocide so they could install themselves in these foreign lands…

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        I am sorry, I am an outsider, I believe it needs to be said very clearly what the US has been doing. It’s the most obvious thing, and for its obviousness it doesn’t get talked about at all because all fundamental critique is blended into constructive criticism that’s meant to improve and prolong the system instead of abolish it.

        Yes, not all Israelis are “bad”, but most Israelis support the expansionist projects, just like most Americans have a very screwed up sense of nationalism, even some of the leftists (who’ll believe in the supposed forwardness of both the American revolution and the genocidal campaign that was manifest destiny.) I don’t “hate” US Americans, I simply am frustrated with the bullshit.

        The US has such an odd social structure and a dependence on cheap imports. You wouldn’t be remissed to call it the landlord of the world because that is evident even in the behaviour of the slightly better off to well off US Americans who are able to travel the world.

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        Yeah nah I’m done.

        It’s not a relatively small part of the population either, at worst it’s 35% full support.

        For years the good ones have sat on their hands and let this continue. We hear nothing but excuses as to why it can’t be fixed, which change all the time to suit. We watch the political scene in our countries completely change because of CPAC influence, Seppo shit we didn’t ask for. Everything is going to shit, because of the United States, its leader, its corporations, its people, its politics, none of which we can stop because it’s forced on us or we’re threatened by it.

        The people can’t be trusted, not just to elect a decent leader but turn on allies. They whine and make excuses for the problem, their fix is to expect others to step in somehow with sanctions or asylum, while they Netflix and chill. Each one refers to the individual, they’re not all bad, defending their own position. We get met with the same shit every time…if one’s not apologising ‘on behalf of’, another is attacking us for lack of understanding or whatever crap they come up with, which they don’t offer other countries.

        I’m done with trusting them or giving them any benefit of the doubt and I don’t give a shit what they think of me personally for it. If I had my way I’d tear up our treaties and boot their soldiers off our soil but I get the feeling they’d try an annexation on us if we did, because that’s the kind of people they are.

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    The fact that he is palestinian definitely hasn’t anything to do with this right? 🫡 comrade

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    They are going to lose the midterms. When they can’t win with bread and circus, go straight to killing.

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    I’m actually quite happy they’re doing this. Same as with the destruction of the White House. The more public atrocities they do, the more you can point to it later and ask if this is what we want again, and hopefully arrive to a more civilized conclusion.

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      The problem I see is that MAGA, rather than being an anomaly, is just the latest manifestation of our decades long descent into barbarism.

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        Well, yes. The oligarchs of the US have systematically been dismantling the education, social security, public services and other systems that have helped to keep them in check. One can hope that this time the consequences are so dramatic and so visible that even decades from now people can point back and ask each other if this is what they want again.

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        I’m sorry but I hate this idea.

        We have no descended into barbarism. We’ve always been here. Either rounding up a demographic to imprison, murdering and torturing people while justifying it or stealing and looting the hard work of regular citizens.

        There’s only ever been a class war

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    His last name is Hasan so of course it’s gonna be a massive turn on for “core Americans”. I keep telling y’all that a good chunk of Burgers will taste Hell!

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    The beauty about lone nuts with violent fantasies is that you can’t really scare them into not committing an atrocity. Getting killed during a rampage is part of the plan, after all. If one good thing comes from this fascistic orgy of cruelty, it’s that tomorrow’s lone nut might make Hegseth his fixation. It would certainly do more good than offing some bigot podcaster.

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    Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down when he was shot during the attack. The Army will have to either sit him in a chair or strap him up to something.

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    I’d argue we’re worse too. Idiots think this makes them look strong rather than weak.

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    I don’t have a problem with this, but do think that it should be pay-per-view, with the money going to his 40-something victims (13 dead, many wounded)

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      You laugh, but they absolutely could mandate viewing by members of the military. Even those who are on leave or have a valid excuse could be made to watch the recording later. I’ve seen dumber (maybe?) orders come down.

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    And are we supposed to shout Allahuakbaa afterward? What’s this Isis or Afganistan?

    I’d leave this one here also:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/trump-grants-clemency-to-former-blackwater-contractors-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-iraq-and-associates-prosecuted-following-the-mueller-investigation/32660A07781AD28D6C24448E37177EDE

    Celmency for the war crimimals who killed civilians, but not for you who revenaged against people who worked for it.