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> Or go to Middle East and call out their leadership and see what happen The US and Europe have spent over a century backing despots in the Middle East and put
by Convolutional 3y ago
> Or go to Middle East and call out their leadership and see what happen
The US and Europe have spent over a century backing despots in the Middle East and putting down or helping put down popular movements by force. The US doesn't even seem to mind if they dismember Washington Post reporters in their embassies. The US sends billions to Netanyahu every year to put down the Palestinian mass movement.
Funny how the US props up these despots, then points to them as a point of supposedly flattering comparison.
- w0de0 3y agoHey man, if gas is expensive you vote for the other guy. Democracy can be evil like that.
- skissane 3y agoOnce the majority of Americans have electric cars, will US policy towards the Middle East change dramatically or stay largely the same?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoCheap fossil fuels means cheap everything else. Flights, plastic products, clothes, shipping, etc. Even cheap electricity for the electric cars.
- everdrive 3y agoYep. I’ll bet you did something bad once too. Now all the points you make are invalid forever.
- drekk 3y agoThe scale is totally the same. I used to lie to my parents about eating candy that my grandmother gave me when I was 5. The Bush administration and media apparatus told lies to the American public as pretext for an invasion that displaced ~4.5 million people and killed another ~1 million. These things are equally bad and should be treated the same way.