• Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It’s amazing how the soviets would assassinate a specific target and be branded as evil demons, but the US can give a bunch of weapons to lunatics to shoot up a grocery store or bomb a train and be branded as saviors of democracy

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      but the US can give a bunch of weapons to lunatics to shoot up a grocery store or bomb a train and be branded as saviors of democracy

      Democracy is the new replacement for Christianity. Any colonial crime can be justified if done in its name, no matter how brutal or nonsensical.

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

        I hope I live long enough to read decades out examinations of US Civil Religion. I honestly think the fact that Americans worship the institutions of government in a religious way is one of the most important factors of the last century and it’s part of why this entire evil country I live in should be nuked to oblivion

    • moondog [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Do you have any links for where I can learn more about the US doing this? I know ofc they do it with foreign terrorist organisations all the time to fight russia etc., but do they do this domestically, or in other countries that they're not directly opposed to?