This knob is aaalll up in the replies corn cobbing, quite entertaining
https://hexbear.net/comment/3679644
Shoutout to @afellowkid@lemmygrad.ml for their excellent effortpost response. Always good to remember in situations like this, going to the effort to actually refute and answer and educate is important not to fix the dweeb they are responding to, but so that anyone else who comes to see the interaction can see the stark difference between bullshit and the slightest research
I think what bothered me the most about him (even more than the genocide apologia), was the absolutely unshakeable smug American exceptionalism. He was certain that the world couldn't do anything without the US, and we should all just be grateful for what we have.
Okay, look. The CIA did a lot of bad things to south america. But that was in the 60s, a lifetime ago! And they probably thought they were doing good stuff, they were hard men living in hard times! Things are different now, and the US Government deserves our uncritical rabid devotion!
edit: this is not parody, I am paraphrasing stuff this person was actually saying
Oh, I'm well aware. I wanted to put my pointiest stiletto right through his tongue. He's probably also one of the charming people who insist that colonisation made life better for the natives.
You did well o7
The comment was more for our friends who never ever ever click on links and only know about context if people post it in the comments
TIL the ghost of Madeleine Albright has possessed someone and is now posting from beyond the grave
Looks like we need a...
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Hexorcism
o7 for the awesome response
It's true, before the founding of the US everyone starved to death, lying about in fields wondering what the hell these fat turnips were.