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Are you referring to the theocracy that is massacring another nation's people? Asserting an opinion on that is a bit lower on the scale of international interve
by mindslight 10mo ago
Are you referring to the theocracy that is massacring another nation's people? Asserting an opinion on that is a bit lower on the scale of international intervention, right? And from what I've seen, most of those arguments are in terms of stopping our own countries' support of that country - not for outright intervention in that country.
- diffs 10mo agoApologies, I deleted my comment because I felt it wasn’t contributing to the discussion, and since I’m not an American I don’t wish to pontificate about either Trump or ICE. I will say however, as someone born in a country ruled by a totalitarian regime, that the US is nowhere near that, and claims to the contrary offend me personally because they trivialize authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
- mindslight 10mo agoWhy wouldn't you place more importance on making sure existing freer countries don't descend into new autocracy and totalitarianism? From my perspective it's not a trivialization, but rather a legitimate concern about where we're headed. And so far over the past year, these types of concerned predictions have been shown to be quite correct. Like sure, it's certainly possible that we will have a domestic US outcome of "mission accomplished" sometime over the next couple years, ICE is drastically wound down and goes back to only being at the border, there is a full accounting of whom they deported and to where, the US citizens and lawful residents who were harmed by their extremely-urgent overzealousness are compensated for their damages, and so on. Just from everything we've seen, it's not very likely.