I got a good one yesterday talking to a lib when I described herding in the context of polling (when pollsters drop outliers to conform to what other polls say). Yes he trusts polls in 2022. They're "reputable companies." He really, really wants to believe the Dems will win the midterms.

Anyway I wanna hear your best ones!

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I got so mad arguing with libs at reddit - I made the following comment for them. I slightly edit it when I re-share it. But only tiny changes are needed. To save space - I'll use the spoiler tag in this comment...

    The US is a beacon of democracy? Really? Do you have receipts for that? I have receipts that it's not and you don't need to read a book to see it. You can learn that in less than a minute. Sorry, I can't prove it in seconds. The US and the CIA has done too much vile and evil shit to make that possible.

    United States involvement in regime change

    1941–1945: World War II and the aftermath

    I know, I know. "The page is too long." I'm ready for that. Please just scan the table of contents from WW II to now. At least scan it for ~20 seconds to see how bad the US (and the CIA in particular is). I'll make it easy as pie...

    List

    • 1941–1945: World War II and the aftermath

    • 4.1 1940s

    • 1941–1952: Japan

    • 1941–1949: Germany

    • 1941–1946: Italy

    • 1944–1946: France

    • 1944–1945: Belgium

    • 1944–1945: Netherlands

    • 1944–1945: Philippines

    • 1945–1955: Austria

    • 1945–1991: The Cold War

    • 1940s

    • 1945–1948: South Korea

    • 1945–1949: China

    • 1947–1949: Greece

    • 1948: Costa Rica

    • 1949–1953: Albania

    • 1949: Syria

    • 1950s

    • 1950–1953: Burma and China

    • 1952: Egypt

    • 1952: Guatemala

    • 1952–1953: Iran

    • 1954: Guatemala

    • 1956–1957: Syria

    • 1957–1959: Indonesia

    • 1959–1963: South Vietnam

    • 1959–1962: Cuba

    • 1960s

    • 1960–1965: Congo-Leopoldville

    • 1960: Laos

    • 1961: Dominican Republic

    • 1961–1964: Brazil

    • 1963: Iraq

    • 1965–1967: Indonesia

    • 1970s

    • 1970: Cambodia

    • 1970–1973: Chile

    • 1971: Bolivia

    • 1974–1991: Ethiopia

    • 1975–1991: Angola

    • 1975–1999: East Timor

    • 1976: Argentina

    • 1979–1992: Afghanistan

    • 1980s

    • 1980–1989: Poland

    • 1981–1982: Chad

    • 1981–1990: Nicaragua

    • 1983: Grenada

    • 1989–1994: Panama

    • 1989: Paraguay

    • 1991–present: Post-Cold War

    • 1990s

    • 1991: Iraq

    • 1991: Haiti

    • 1992–1996: Iraq

    • 1994–1995: Haiti

    • 1996–1997: Zaire

    • 2000s

    • 2000: FR Yugoslavia

    • 2001–2021: Afghanistan

    • 2003–2021: Iraq

    • 2005: Kyrgyzstan

    • 2006–2007: Palestinian Territories

    • 2005–2009: Syria

    • 2010s

    • 2011: Libya

    • 2012–2017: Syria

    • ElGosso [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Someone on /r/Chomsky got mad at me because I asked if they were joking when they demanded an example of a single successful regime changed by America :data-laughing:

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      how did that get past the wikipedia liberals anyway

      or is this the edited down version already?

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        is this the edited down version already?

        I'm not sure what you mean. I never checked the talk page but I assume there were edit wars. I'm really shocked the table of contents didn't look like the following with no sub-categories at all and it still doesn't...

        • 1941–1945: World War II and the aftermath

        I suspect that a few people (or maybe just one person) has been fighting the MIC because they certainly don't want an easy to grasp, damning list.