• wire [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Manufacturing consent really does just hit the thesaurus button huh

  • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Oh nice, they're taking the fight to the Saudis!

    They're on Yemen's side, right?

    Guys?

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      We're deploying troops to Yemen

      To help stop the brutal famine and genocide they're suffering at the hands of the Saudis?

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      To help stop the Saudis and ongoing genocide, right?

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Politico rates it 10 Pinocchio’s. He’s just too dang powerless and needs everyone to pitch in before he can stop supporting Saudi Arabia

  • Mother [any]
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    2 years ago

    The letter adds that the US military presence in Yemen is “to protect US interests by providing air and missile defense capabilities and support the operation of United States military aircraft,” but stressed that the US role in the country is “non-combatant” and is for “defensive purposes.”

    Defensive purposes

    Which is why they are in Yemen and not in Virginia

    This is what we know about. I guarantee there’s some nightmare CIA torture site there.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I guarantee there’s some nightmare CIA torture site there

      Three letter agencies of the US would never torture anyone! They are the most just institution in history and also have great break rooms, good free fruit - in case anyone is looking for a job - and best of all don't have a union :fedposting:

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Things that are harmful to American national security:

      • China sailing in their ocean
      • Cubans existing
      • Oil fields being controlled by their respective countries
  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    >be americans

    >have the highest number of weapons per capita on earth

    >refuse to overthrow your genocidal imperialist government

    :thinkin-lenin:

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    yay more war thats def what we need rn :yea:

    usa teaching americans about geography by going to war with everyone on the map

    • Mother [any]
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      2 years ago

      They don’t even know about it. I was talking with a friend about Ukraine over the weekend and they got all chest thumpy about Ukraine and I said “what Russia is doing in Ukraine is no worse than what the saudis are doing in Yemen” and they got this completely blank stare and said “yeah I don’t know anything about that”

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        What Saudis are doing in Yemen is many magnitudes worse

        Siri, pull up the respective civilian death tolls for each conflict (Yemen: 377,000 per the UN, Ukraine: 3,780 per the UN)

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        “Can we talk about things happening now and not in 1930s like you commies love to do :maybe-later-kiddo: ”

  • johnbrown1917 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Aha, i'm sure the west will now place on Sanctions on the US like with Russia.

    Right??

    RIGHT?

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Houthis and Iran need to strike Saudi oil production hard right now. Remove the Saudi’s leverage to involve the US. If the Houthis lay waste to the Saudi refineries and oil derricks then the US will not bother getting involved as there’s nothing left to defend or extract.

  • Opposition [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Yay! Another new war!

    And just like the wars in Syria, Libya, Nigeria and all the others, nobody can tell us why we're at war there.

  • wire [it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Thank god we all got out and voted so the US wouldn't become an even more overt evil fascist empire at home and abroad. I'm sure now that we've saved our democracy it'll be just as easy to convince people to vote more what with how much good that did for everyone

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The most progressive campaign of all time. How about stop being a dang tankie and :vote: