• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    As opposed to all the other times the US removed a sovereign foreign leader? I can name more than half a dozen off the top of my head and I know there’s way fucking more than that that I’d have to look up to remember. Same as it ever was.

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      We literally did the same thing to Manuel Noriega in the 80s. But at least he was a legit narco kingpin.

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      yeah, I don’t know where all these experts have been for the last 50 to 70? years of “rule based order”, when they say rule based order do they mean the US makes the rules and everyone else plays along? in that case how is this any different

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      1 day ago

      Western Journalism in a nutshell.

      Forget or whitewash western history of atrocities, exaggerate others.

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      1 day ago

      Yup. I immediately thought of Libya when it happened, but I’m a bernie bro and most of the people I discuss politics with still deify Barack Obama, so they hadn’t considered that.