ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Delivering another blow to what's left of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy, New York’s new governor acknowledged on her first day in office that the state has had nearly 12,000 more deaths from COVID-19 than Cuomo told the public.

In bad country blah blah

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I swear, I don’t want to ever hear anyone say the words 9/11 again unless the context is “the US deserved 9/11” or “9/11 wasn’t that bad.” We went into two wars directly because of 9/11 because 3,000 people were killed. The US government has killed probably over a million people now, or roughly 333 9/11s. Unless you’re 333 times as mad at every US politician as you were about 9/11, shut the fuck up.

    And yes I know we didn’t really go into two wars because of 9/11, we used 9/11 as a pretext to get into two wars we already wanted to get into but the point stands.

    • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The US government has killed probably over a million people now

      https://www.salon.com/2018/03/19/the-staggering-death-toll-in-iraq_partner/

      March 19 marks 15 years since the U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the American people have no idea of the enormity of the calamity the invasion unleashed. The U.S. military has refused to keep a tally of Iraqi deaths. General Tommy Franks, the man in charge of the initial invasion, bluntly told reporters, “We don’t do body counts.” One survey found that most Americans thought Iraqi deaths were in the tens of thousands. But our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion.