It’s honestly hilarious to me that they’re going with this instead of making up a bullshit story about Yemeni pirates playing kickball with a puppy’s head. Not even anything about “freedom and democracy”. Just naked imperialism and prioritization of le market over human lives. Of course, they very deliberately omit why they started a blockade to begin with.
Can’t tell if it’s a net good to see the empire rip its mask off like this.
that will never have to face the consequences of the violence he advocates for
Maybe there's some context that's missing where he says it's good or something but it does seem like MattY is objectively correct here.
What he said is objectively true but he says it thinking it's a good thing. I could post that verbatim on Hexbear under the implication that I think it's a bad thing and no one would question me in the slightest
I was just about to say, damn, new header text just dropped
Tired: War is hell.
Wired: A core function of the American military is starting wars to protect shipping.
Neocons have been saying that for a long time. They love pointing at the Barbary wars as historical justification for it
Actually kind of, imperialism relies on the flow of resources from the periphery to the core after all, but I don't think this person understands that.
I'm tired and cooking here so maybe a more well-read comrade can help me out, but I think this kind of rhetoric is a result of the US empire declining.
Of course, leftists have always known that the military is just a tool for imperialism, but I've seen things like OP cropping up more and more often among the """populist""" chuds online. The veneer of "defending freedom and democracy" that was unquestionable before and during the Bush Jr years is collapsing. On the right, it's being replaced with a vulgar, amoral anti-war stance (unless it's China) that judges engagements not on any kind of moral grounds, but on whether it's a good deal for the US financially.
IMO, it's preferable to the fake rhetoric that was out there before, but it definitely feels like the spray tan the US had is coming off and it will be embracing the "yeah, I'm a piece of shit, but I've got the most guns" cynicism in the future. It's a tacit admission that leftists were right about the nature of the US.
How dare Americans act with indignation and military aggression to one of the few countries trying to take a stand against Israel. They value their planet destroying cargo ships more than Palestinian lives. God damn America man
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