• itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Lmfao ok

    He’s right though. AQ hasn’t caused millions of deaths. Is still leading to millions of deaths.

    AQ are monsters. Absolutely vile monsters. But do not pretend for a second the US is any better.

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        17 hours ago

        Like the time the US pounded that school? Or the other school? Or the other school. Or the other school. Or the other school. Or the

        I mean I can do the same thing for hospitals, clinics, universities, shelters, old folks homes, churches, mosques, hell even synagogues. Weddings, funerals, kids birthday parties, holidays, casual evening gatherings. Apartment blocks, neighbourhoods, entire cities leveled. Your neighbor’s 4 year old’s body parts held in a plastic bag by their dad begging a doctor to please heal their kid.

        The US has committed so many war crimes, first of all the crime of war itself. It has funded terrorists, supported brutal dictators and caused millions to die and will continue to do so. The scale at which AQ commits its horrid violence is not even dwarfed by the shit the US has done and still does. Nowhere fucking near. ISIS maybe. AQ not even in the slightest. When you bomb three entire countries so much that almost every square foot of earth has had a bomb dropped on it like in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam, when you support Saddam’s gas attacks on the Kurds and Iranians, when you military support Pinochet and the brutal dictators of the Philippines, when that gets millions killed and babies to this day are being born with severe birth defects because of it, you are the greater evil. No car bomb or truck bomb or airplane into a skyscraper can ever hope to compete with the absolute evil that the US has brought forth into this world.

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          17 hours ago

          Even factoring in the US’ atrocities, yes, claiming that the US is worse than Al Queda pound-for-pound on number of deaths is absurd.

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            15 hours ago

            How about decades of torture programs, disappearing people, CIA interventions, political assasinations and terror attacks? The US is pretty good at those too. Leaving drug empires everywhere they go, stealing natural resources through warfare, corruption and murdering union workers. Poisoning their own population, slavery and the ongoing oppression of people of colour, the Tuskegee experiment, MKUltra, institutional racism that is still killing people and harming communities, economic warfare, using chemicals and gas attacks on their own citizens and abroad, ruining vast swathes of ecosystems for short term gain, normalizing corruption, shielding oil companies from consequences, several genocides among which the still grossly under recognized genocide of the First Nations that is also ongoing. Their illegal economic boycots, illegal wars, their ongoing support for Israel as it commits a genocide, their support for literally Al Qaida in their fight against ISIS, the support for ISIS aligned groups in Gaza, their illegal war against Iran and their other illegal wars against Iran, their spread of military bases all over the world, their refusal to adhere to International law, their refusal to commit to nonproliferation, their refusal of justice for people who lived downwind of nuclear tests and who are still to this day harmed by their effects, their support of Apartheid South-Africa and Rhodesia and their refusal to respond adequately to several genocides. The United States is the most hated country in the world for a reason dude. Millions were killed and billions have been affected by their bullshit and they won’t stop anytime soon.

            Like what the fuck are you even arguing here?

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              15 hours ago

              I’m arguing that claiming that the US is worse than Al Queda pound-for-pound on number of deaths is absurd.

              I thought that was pretty clear.

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                15 hours ago

                Nice goalposts why don’t you move them some more

                Never said pound for pound dude. The US has done more evil than any other empire combined and it is not even close. AQ isn’t even a fly to a sun when it comes to the US. Get your head out of the 2003 war on terror bullshit and stick that American flagpole where the sun don’t shine. The rest of the world is done with your shit.

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                  13 hours ago

                  The US has done more evil than any other empire combined and it is not even close.

                  Also just clocked this gem of a braindead take. Lmaoooo

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                  15 hours ago

                  We’re talking about the article, which is about Hasan’s quote, which I am quoting verbatim.

                  About which you said:

                  He’s right though.

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                    15 hours ago

                    You know what. The US is more evil. Pound for fucking pound. I hope the boot tastes like shit when you lick it.