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I'm not sure what your sarcasm proposes. So is your plan to mark this day as the day that all nations become friendly to each other or something? It sort of is

I'm not sure what your sarcasm proposes. So is your plan to mark this day as the day that all nations become friendly to each other or something? It sort of is what it is and nations have to do what they have to do. Personally, I think equating the US with brutal regimes like those of China and Russia are a bit silly, but ok.

coldtea 13y ago
>Personally, I think equating the US with brutal regimes like those of China and Russia are a bit silly, but ok. "Brutal regimes"? The US has toppled legal governments, supported dictators, spied on it's own people and millions of foreigners, killed people without trial through drones, invaded sovereign countries on BS pretexts, killed peaceful protesters, grabbed resources for a pittance exercising military leverage and/or local paid lackeys, used nuclear bombs in a war (and on a civilians), even conducted medical experiments on unsuspecting people. Not to mention some other dark stuff, like slavery for blacks, concentration camps and relocation for Indians, segregation until 1960+, a nightmarish prison system, and still keeping the death penalty. How exactly are those other countries any worse? Bothered to ask their citizens -- and not just some overblown vocal minority in Twitter? For one, they haven't fucked everybody the world over.
vidarh 13y ago
What I think is "a bit silly" is to imagine that China and Russia somehow is even in the same league as the US when it comes to brutality. China was more brutal under Maos rule, and the Soviet Union was under Stalin. But a lot of time has passed since then, and while China in particular certainly is still more oppressive to its own population than the US is, the number of deaths directly or indirectly caused by US interventions, the amount of torture, and the ludicrous US incarceration rates (of its own population this time), puts the US in a league of its own.

coldtea 13y ago

>Personally, I think equating the US with brutal regimes like those of China and Russia are a bit silly, but ok. "Brutal regimes"? The US has toppled legal governments, supported dictators, spied on it's own people and millions of foreigners, killed people without trial through drones, invaded sovereign countries on BS pretexts, killed peaceful protesters, grabbed resources for a pittance exercising military leverage and/or local paid lackeys, used nuclear bombs in a war (and on a civilians), even conducted medical experiments on unsuspecting people. Not to mention some other dark stuff, like slavery for blacks, concentration camps and relocation for Indians, segregation until 1960+, a nightmarish prison system, and still keeping the death penalty. How exactly are those other countries any worse? Bothered to ask their citizens -- and not just some overblown vocal minority in Twitter? For one, they haven't fucked everybody the world over.

vidarh 13y ago

What I think is "a bit silly" is to imagine that China and Russia somehow is even in the same league as the US when it comes to brutality. China was more brutal under Maos rule, and the Soviet Union was under Stalin. But a lot of time has passed since then, and while China in particular certainly is still more oppressive to its own population than the US is, the number of deaths directly or indirectly caused by US interventions, the amount of torture, and the ludicrous US incarceration rates (of its own population this time), puts the US in a league of its own.