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  • I gotta be honest, in no way do I think anything would change if he had gone. Unless he got shot by a cop (lol), he still would have been impeached, McConnell still would have declined to convict on that impeachment, Garland still would refuse to even think about prosecuting a former president, the maga crowd would still crowd around him, and dems still would have lost in '24. MAYBE the Republican talking points would sound more insane by an nigh indistinguishable amount.







  • You may be talking past each other. This IS propaganda: Not to defend murder or extrajudicial violence, but Hamas by all accounts beheaded criminals. To dude’s point, Hamas IS a violent, repressive group born of inconceivable human suffering, as referenced by them using beheading as a form of punishment. But back to propaganda, western media is more than happy to strip all context to display Hamas as just some back-asswards Islamic terror group rather than a legitimate governmental force, despite Israel’s propensity for capital punishment (and the US’s).







  • Garbagio@lemmy.zipBanned from communitytoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's a Tankie?
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    You’ll hear a lot of shit, but I’ll humanise the tankies. OK. So you’re a human being and you see an imperialist power doing horrendous things in the name of capitalism, patriarchy, and racial dominance. That’s bad. So bad that you begin to think that anyone against that must inherently be good. You’re so committed to that ideal that you will justify, defend, or dismiss every evil that they commit in turn.

    You do see horrible shit happen in America, or in the world in America’s name. But oftentimes international conflict is just a few bad bitches racing to the bottom, and you have to be willing to stand by principles, not just “America bad.”