• tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    I’m actually quite happy they’re doing this. Same as with the destruction of the White House. The more public atrocities they do, the more you can point to it later and ask if this is what we want again, and hopefully arrive to a more civilized conclusion.

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      4 days ago

      I hope you are right. But if you look at the holocaust and all its proof you can see that we’re still getting closer and closer to it.

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    5 days ago

    His last name is Hasan so of course it’s gonna be a massive turn on for “core Americans”. I keep telling y’all that a good chunk of Burgers will taste Hell!

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    5 days ago

    I am losing…something…in me…about this country. It’s not the same one I grew up in. I can’t believe so many people are this hateful.

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      4 days ago

      Felt like the racism had always been here, but after 9/11, a lot of “Christians” saw Muslims as an active threat to Christianity and by extension, the US. May have just been me growing old enough to be aware of the rhetoric, but I felt like there was a huge uptick in the “We are a Christian nation” arguments in the years after 9/11. There was a lot of hate crimes against anyone who even looked a little “middle eastern” and there were parodies of children’s songs about bombing Muslims that I pretty much heard on a weekly basis for the better part of a decade. I think that time normalized racism in the 2000s, and made it clear that having those opinions wouldn’t necessarily ostracize you anymore. Thow social media into the mix, and you have a self-generating fire of hateful rhetoric based solely on the hateful lies and hateful perceptions the algorithm feeds to you because hate drives engagement.

      Just my 2 cents there.

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      Maybe it was always really shitty in many ways that you didn’t know, too. That’s the bigger shock, I would imagine.

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        5 days ago

        Things have changed.

        People have always had sick ideas, but they used to be set straight when speaking to others. Today they get applause from an increasing number of online followers. The hall of mirrors on social media is causing this evil to thrive.

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    They are going to lose the midterms. When they can’t win with bread and circus, go straight to killing.

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      I have a hard time believing that americans would ever vote for anyone else at this point. While you do meet some americans online who seem like decent people, they sound pretty rare when you listen to actual news and events coming out of the US… Or even start reading it’s history.

      And while I should not be judging americans as a group based on a few bad ones. I am very cautious of americans in RL myself, because 3 out of 4 americans I have met so far have turned out to be stalkers.

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    And are we supposed to shout Allahuakbaa afterward? What’s this Isis or Afganistan?

    I’d leave this one here also:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/trump-grants-clemency-to-former-blackwater-contractors-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-iraq-and-associates-prosecuted-following-the-mueller-investigation/32660A07781AD28D6C24448E37177EDE

    Celmency for the war crimimals who killed civilians, but not for you who revenaged against people who worked for it.

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    5 days ago

    I don’t have a problem with this, but do think that it should be pay-per-view, with the money going to his 40-something victims (13 dead, many wounded)

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    The US was a mistake. So much about the country is hideous and vain. I genuinely instinctively trust people from Canada and Mexico more because I’ve had genuinely terrible interactions with US Americans on pretty regular basis. What people say about Israeli tourists holds true for Americans as well, the world has been forced to accept what the US has done to other places as morally good somehow.

    This era is ending and I say to hell with the devil that is the American state

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      Friend, I can’t say I disagree with you. But please don’t let a relatively small percentage of people skew your thoughts of all of us. I don’t think all Israelis are evil, just like I don’t think all Canadians are nice. I know there’s little that I personally can do to sway your mind. Just know that some of us are trying to right the ship and still trying to be good.

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        Yeah nah I’m done.

        It’s not a relatively small part of the population either, at worst it’s 35% full support.

        For years the good ones have sat on their hands and let this continue. We hear nothing but excuses as to why it can’t be fixed, which change all the time to suit. We watch the political scene in our countries completely change because of CPAC influence, Seppo shit we didn’t ask for. Everything is going to shit, because of the United States, its leader, its corporations, its people, its politics, none of which we can stop because it’s forced on us or we’re threatened by it.

        The people can’t be trusted, not just to elect a decent leader but turn on allies. They whine and make excuses for the problem, their fix is to expect others to step in somehow with sanctions or asylum, while they Netflix and chill. Each one refers to the individual, they’re not all bad, defending their own position. We get met with the same shit every time…if one’s not apologising ‘on behalf of’, another is attacking us for lack of understanding or whatever crap they come up with, which they don’t offer other countries.

        I’m done with trusting them or giving them any benefit of the doubt and I don’t give a shit what they think of me personally for it. If I had my way I’d tear up our treaties and boot their soldiers off our soil but I get the feeling they’d try an annexation on us if we did, because that’s the kind of people they are.

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        All is an exaggeration but a vast majority isn’t when you talk about Israel. It’s basically actual demons with body counts, the loud but scared ones who support them, the shy ones who support them tacitly and then a minority (usually religious Jews, so basically actual Jews) who oppose Israel because they know it’s a hellish creation. And those get beat up by the cops and arrested all the time. There’s way more diversity in America so I think it’s not as bad as Israel, ofc, but don’t forget they’re both Western bloodthirsty settler colonies that commited genocide so they could install themselves in these foreign lands…