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As does America. Internment of Japanese Americans, Vietnam War, Iraq War + the various war crimes committed there etc etc. most countries have things about them

As does America. Internment of Japanese Americans, Vietnam War, Iraq War + the various war crimes committed there etc etc. most countries have things about them worth despising. Just depends on how long your memory is.

rootusrootus 4y ago
I'm okay letting go of things which happened before any current politician was in office. The past is the past, but I can despise the CCP for what they are doing right now.
- alaricus 4y ago
  Wars in Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria, routine drone strikes, mass deportations, children in cages... There is plenty to despise here.
  - rootusrootus 4y ago
    Yeah, you're cheerleading for the CCP, I get it. The intent alone that underlies genocide is not at all comparable to the questionable wars the US gets involved in for reasons many of us don't agree with. And think about the bright side. We can bitch here all we want about the US Government and I feel zero.... ZERO concern that they're going to track me down and punish me. Cannot say the same in China about the CCP.
    - alaricus 4y ago
      I'm not cheerleading for CCP. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a cheerleader for someone else. > We can bitch here all we want about the US Government and I feel zero.... ZERO concern that they're going to track me down and punish me. Tell that to Julian Assange.
      - rootusrootus 4y ago
        Okay, then blind hate for the US. You've actually attempted to equate civilian casualties of war with genocide, which is.... amazing. > Tell that to Julian Assange. Okay, sure. Has he ever been in the custody of the US govt? Was he accused of criticizing the government, or helping someone else divulge classified info? Whether you think that's what he was doing or not, you're stretching a looooong ways here to try and make the US govt as bad as the CCP. You've got a long ways to go.
        alaricus 4y ago
        Julian Assange is held in the UK because the US asked him to be extradited. Do you read news? "Civilian casualties of war" -> This is some NK-level mental gymnastics. "It's ok when the US murders people, but not cool when the Russians do it". People die either way.
        jessaustin 4y ago
        At the end of this giant thread, you're still claiming that Russia is doing a genocide in Ukraine? UN says 4000 Ukrainian civilians have died so far in this violent clash between heavily armed militaries. In the last eight years 14000 people died in Donbas alone because Ukraine government couldn't enforce the Minsk agreements on its own Nazi battalions. (These are real Nazis, whose grandparents are still honored in Ukraine for helping Germans liquidate Jews, Roma, and Poles. This ain't the Jan 6 buffalo-hat fake Nazis.) Of course both of those figures are dwarfed by the deaths in e.g. Yemen. How is it that you've picked out this smallest death toll as a genocide?
        throwaway29812 4y ago
        You would have to be purposefully blind of the truth at this point, which you are. That's something between you and your own sense of morality, stop wasting our time with this rubbish. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-ukraine-investigates-deportation-children-russia-possible-genocide-2022-06-03/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-ukraine-inves... https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1532802261696618496 https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1532802261696618496

rootusrootus 4y ago

I'm okay letting go of things which happened before any current politician was in office. The past is the past, but I can despise the CCP for what they are doing right now.

alaricus 4y ago
Wars in Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria, routine drone strikes, mass deportations, children in cages... There is plenty to despise here.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Yeah, you're cheerleading for the CCP, I get it. The intent alone that underlies genocide is not at all comparable to the questionable wars the US gets involved in for reasons many of us don't agree with. And think about the bright side. We can bitch here all we want about the US Government and I feel zero.... ZERO concern that they're going to track me down and punish me. Cannot say the same in China about the CCP.
  - alaricus 4y ago
    I'm not cheerleading for CCP. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a cheerleader for someone else. > We can bitch here all we want about the US Government and I feel zero.... ZERO concern that they're going to track me down and punish me. Tell that to Julian Assange.
    - rootusrootus 4y ago
      Okay, then blind hate for the US. You've actually attempted to equate civilian casualties of war with genocide, which is.... amazing. > Tell that to Julian Assange. Okay, sure. Has he ever been in the custody of the US govt? Was he accused of criticizing the government, or helping someone else divulge classified info? Whether you think that's what he was doing or not, you're stretching a looooong ways here to try and make the US govt as bad as the CCP. You've got a long ways to go.
      - alaricus 4y ago
        Julian Assange is held in the UK because the US asked him to be extradited. Do you read news? "Civilian casualties of war" -> This is some NK-level mental gymnastics. "It's ok when the US murders people, but not cool when the Russians do it". People die either way.
      - jessaustin 4y ago
        At the end of this giant thread, you're still claiming that Russia is doing a genocide in Ukraine? UN says 4000 Ukrainian civilians have died so far in this violent clash between heavily armed militaries. In the last eight years 14000 people died in Donbas alone because Ukraine government couldn't enforce the Minsk agreements on its own Nazi battalions. (These are real Nazis, whose grandparents are still honored in Ukraine for helping Germans liquidate Jews, Roma, and Poles. This ain't the Jan 6 buffalo-hat fake Nazis.) Of course both of those figures are dwarfed by the deaths in e.g. Yemen. How is it that you've picked out this smallest death toll as a genocide?
        throwaway29812 4y ago
        You would have to be purposefully blind of the truth at this point, which you are. That's something between you and your own sense of morality, stop wasting our time with this rubbish. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-ukraine-investigates-deportation-children-russia-possible-genocide-2022-06-03/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-ukraine-inves... https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1532802261696618496 https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1532802261696618496