Brendan W

This cat has been getting hit by this train for years, I am starting to feel really bad for it

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@DraconicIntel @SpaghettiKozak US troops are still stationed in Iraq?

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@SpaghettiKozak There was also a bizzarely prescient episode of the x-files episode The Lone Gunmen, which came out only a few months before 9/11 iirc

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@SpaghettiKozak Funnily enough at least one man did think of this, he just imagined it being a specific Japanese kamikaze thing. Tom Clancy even got interviewed about it after the attacks.

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@avispartan @ThatchEffendi If the principles don't actually prevent the sanction of genocide by religious authorities, i'd argue it doesn't actually matter.

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@avispartan @ThatchEffendi The Rohyngya genocide had heavy support from Buddhist monks. Like that's pretty clear religious sanction.

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@KarolusWangus I remember Americans laughing at Japanese cities being destroyed by flooding not so long ago, obstenisibly as revenge for Pearl Harbour.

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@KarolusWangus I don't think think that's true at all tbh. I've seen plenty of instances of Americans laughing at or otherwise exalting at the miseries of Muslims (and others) quite brazenly. Like we can read comments sections y'know.

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@ayatr0llah Its closer to somethng like the Congo Wars than WW1.

Could end up being the Great War of the Middle East maybe but its still pretty limited in scope if you ask me.

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@SpaghettiKozak @DRM58328434 This has been my experience of American perspectives of America as a non-American (who is also highly critical of American hegemony), whether hero or villian, they remain the sole protagonists of history.

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@ShinMarginalScr This is all Cold War anti-Communist massacres. Like you can (and should) hold the US responsible for its role in these things but its weird to think that local actors didn't have their own reasons for hating communists and we're just glad for the assistance

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@leftwick20 True.

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@slandermepls Genuinely - no not really

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@_nilliewelson @housetrotter 20 years thing too

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@_nilliewelson @housetrotter That's how I read it

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@ShinMarginalScr Man that's grim, but i get it.

Got away from one country with a fondness for pograms, found another.

I'm still team All Men Are Brothers but some days it feels like a very small team

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@estherzelda0514 Iraq is also now partially dominatted by Iran, who have their own militias on the ground and political parties in the Iraqi parliament. Not exactly a resounding strategic success.

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@Jackelope701 @AhernHerbe8277 I think wars are very bad.

But part of me wants Argentina to try this again just to put paid to this delusion.

Rather you didn't, but also, stop being stupid.

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@PMOfTokelau @aledornell Well yeah this is just the story of the Americas

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@souljagoyteller @_glorianas Tbf the Falklands are pretty wealthy compared to the UK and recently struck oil, which makes Argentine anger more understandable but also funnier