Mark Twain once said that God invented war so Americans would learn geography. Evidently, God didn’t try hard enough.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Thirsty for blood

    Don't matter whose

    Long as it ain't theirs

    There's plenty to choose

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not even geography. The excuse that the US used to invade Afghanistan was that they harbored Al Queda.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      9/11 highjackers: Very Muslim

      The Taliban: Also very Muslim

      QED: The Taliban did 9/11

  • VHS [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    These people got their education from Toby Keith's "The Taliban Song".

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've rattled off something like this to some neolib quasi-friends before.

      It was fun and they were not happy about it.

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    No they did not. And neither did Iraq, that country was also destroyed by the US for it.

    • ValiumAnarchist [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      "I supported the war. No I did, I'm a patriot. We sure showed those Iraqis for what those Saudis did." - Marc Maron

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I want to tour schools and explain 9/11 and the shit that followed to every goddamn child until they fucking get it. It made me into the red mad and nude adult who has carried DEEEEEEEEEP resentment for the Bush administration since I was 9

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Hatred of Bush and his cadre of demons is like, a fundamental aspect of my growing up and is as calcified in me as the shitty songs from my pre teens that I still like despite myself. Trump was a bad president. Hating Bush is a fundamental aspect of my fucking soul.

  • pppp1000 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Geographical ignorance is present in other countries so I won't make fun of Americans that much on the particular issue but there is no group on Earth that is so full of themselves and chauvinistic as the average Americans.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Geographical ignorance is present in other countries

      yea but the difference is

      Ling: "I don't know what Afghans are like exactly"
      Cletus: "dems are some child-molesting terrorasts"