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Never mentioning his abnormally pacifist record which is more important? Because he's nothing of the sort. He's an isolationist (more or less), which is a sta
by aguaviva 2y ago
Never mentioning his abnormally pacifist record which is more important?
Because he's nothing of the sort. He's an isolationist (more or less), which is a stance designed to look like pacifism but in fact is very different, and has all kinds of negative side effects, one of which is that it ultimately leads to war, or tolerance of things worse than war (and which is always fake populist stance anyway). See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)
Seriously - remember when he said he would "make Mexico pay" for the wall he wanted to build? Exactly how do you think he would "make" Mexico do that? Is that a "pacifist" stance?
Or is he just making stuff up, to blow smoke in your face and push your buttons?
- aguaviva 2y agoCorrection: a better phrasing would be "pretends to be an isolationist", given the sibling remark in relation to his not-so pacifist support of the 2002 Iraq War: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42070803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42070803