• ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
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        19 hours ago

        Most nations are built on genocide, it’s an unfortunate part of human nature to be cruel to those not like your group.I mean the last hundred years alone, the of Cossacks if Crimea, the holocaust, Kaiser run Germany committed one before WW2, Ottomans genocide Armenia, China is actively engaged in one now, as well as Israels current actions in Gaza, and that’s just off the top of my head, but somehow only the USA is built on it. You ignore the skeletons in your own foundations and dishonor yourself and their deaths by doing so

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            12 hours ago

            The USA was built the same way all nations were, by subjugation and eradication but we are one of the few looked down on for it and outright called irredeemable for it

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              Oh! Lookie here, a fascist for breakfast. My day is off to a lovely start.

              The difference is in the history. America has NEVER been honest about its origins. No other modern nations were built on slavery like we were. Britain abolished it decades before America. And after WWII, they gave up the rest of their colonies because it was the right thing to do.

              America? America never stopped. It only stopped genociding Indians when they were such a small population that they couldn’t pose a threat to the white man, and it still fucks them over every chance it can.

              Racism is so deeply embedded in America that the simple claim that black lives matter turned into a controversy. You know what a normal nation would’ve done? Examine their police. Us? We said fuck those people, let the racist cops do whatever they want.

              This is called honesty. Progress can’t be made without it.

              I’ve made it my life’s work to fight white supremacy in the blue collar South and I’ll fucking devour you whole.

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            1 day ago

            You’re saying they don’t pay for their weapons? Pretty sure we would stop selling them weapons if they weren’t ever paying for them.

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              1 day ago

              I am indeed saying that. Remember that the US government doesn’t have state run arms industries: the money is going to private companies regardless of whether Israel buys them, or the US government buys them and gifts them to Israel. It’s not about money.

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                1 day ago

                True we don’t have state run arms industries but never think the military industrial complex isn’t part of the government. In America it’s always about the money.

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                  1 day ago

                  Yeah, but the military industrial complex still gets its cut when the US gifts Israel weapons, it just comes from the US tax payers.