https://lemm.ee/comment/4425008

Also "Anti-War protesters are protesting war? Who could have seen this coming?"

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
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    1 year ago

    that's the war they choose to protest

    Since its founding in 2002, Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK has protested against US intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, Columbia, and Honduras. Amongst anyone, she has the most receipts.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    the amount of liberals who can't see how the US helped any of this happen is startling yet unsurprising. It really is blue MAGA. If Trump supported the Ukraine war like Biden, suddenly liberals would be anti war.

    • tails__miles_prower [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      They are more mad that Trump didn't blow people up in Syria. Than they are with Biden doing nothing after SC ended roe v wade

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      it'll be real funny if Trump starts a war over Taiwan if he wins in 2024 and then the sides reverse and in the megathreads we start taking analysis from liberal-oriented sources who only really oppose the war because it's the Republicans doing it, versus the conservative sources we used to have to rely on (as there's been virtually nobody liberal/left-leaning doing regular coverage and analysis) who are now dipshits fully in support of beating China

      • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        having lived through Bush with Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama with Libya(mostly, cause of BENGOZZI. I was going to add Yemen, Syria and others but i don't think either side gave a fuck about those), and how Republicans and Democrats took turns there, that is definitely what would happen.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Helps that it's not really widely reported on.

      Like they'll report stuff without context.

      Like how they're reporting the stuff happening in Africa. They'll just say that fighting is happening and dumb racist westerners will just be like "The stupid brown people are blowing each other up again."

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Of course it did

      When your brain is fried by obsessively watching the 24 hour news networks, you don't remember five minutes ago, much less five years ago

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    liberals support american foreign interventions like charlie brown supports wanting to kick the football football-lucy football-charlie-brown

    "Okay it was bad and they lied to us the last 738 times, but THIS time though"

  • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    'actually it might be the only conflict in the entirety of the globe we had no hand in starting'

    oh man talk about being close to the truth

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I guess blowing up an oil pipeline and hosting a sanctioned hit list is not direct involvement

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      the USA is also heavily involved in Ukraine's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) cycle, including supplying lots of satellite information

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    we didn't have a direct involvement in starting.

    "It was a bloodless coup (all pillow smotherings)"

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    obviously what matters is who started it, grade school style. Why would anyone be concerned about the ongoing supply of the weapons doing half the killing? clearly what matters here is blame, not human lives. Fucking baby brains