• OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    God, I fucking hate this so much. The empire leveraging its decades-long propaganda.

    "We did it too, now you wouldn't criticise the United States like some freedom-hating commie, would you? So you shouldn't criticise Israel either! A little genocide is fine if we say so!"

    Room full of white people nod along and clap.

    • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      That's what we get when Bush is stanning his shit ass watercolors on MSNBC instead of swinging neck first in the Hague

      Zero accountability for war crimes and people still in gitmo never charged

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    "We did that as well but it is not a war crime because we investigated ourselves afterwards and found out we did nothing wrong"

    What normal people can take this seriously?

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    The Bush Jr. presidency remains the single biggest thing I am mad about, so this angle is useless against me and - if anything - just pisses me off more

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    6 months ago

    we tried to learn from it to make changes

    the chance to make changes is right now, binch