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Extensive domestic economic control by security forces is also a feature of Egypt and Pakistan. America does not complain about those examples of course, becaus
by g8oz 6mo ago
Extensive domestic economic control by security forces is also a feature of Egypt and Pakistan. America does not complain about those examples of course, because those countries bend the knee.
- logicchains 6mo agoThose countries, like Iran, are also quite poor because the army siphons off so much of their resources.
- platevoltage 6mo ago[flagged]
- LtWorf 6mo agoAnd it seems that they did in fact need that army.
- AnimalMuppet 6mo agoIf by "bend the knee" you mean that they don't regularly chant "death to America", sure.
- ajsnigrutin 6mo ago[flagged]
- bdangubic 6mo agoA lot more than 1/2 the world, a lot more...
- lucketone 6mo agoCurrently lot if people dislike/distrust america. Which is understandable and rational thing to do. Chanting “deato xyz” is very irrational and unproductive and just bad.
- bdangubic 6mo agoif I was disliked and distrusted by a lot of people I’d think long and hard about why that is vs. complaining about how that dislike/distrust is communicated