Follow up question: after the string of catastrophic failures and the killing of millions, why didn’t the government stop?
The lib I work with used to parrot state department talking points such as ‘but it was a dictatorship’ or ‘but what about women’s rights?’, to which I say deal with it with earnest diplomacy (which both myself and now him acknowledging the government doesn’t act in good faith).
Blows my fucking mind that anyone in the US could believe the US gov has any interest in helping the people anywhere. They are literally stripping rights away from people in the US, kidnapping every non-white person they can, doing genocides, etc but yeah this time they’re totally gonna help the people…
I like to think I’ve had some impact by pointing out that the US won’t even increase its own minimum wage, so anything they tell you about the dire need for a humanitarian military intervention elsewhere in the world is definitely going to be bullshit.
Follow up question: after the string of catastrophic failures and the killing of millions, why didn’t the government stop?
The lib I work with used to parrot state department talking points such as ‘but it was a dictatorship’ or ‘but what about women’s rights?’, to which I say deal with it with earnest diplomacy (which both myself and now him acknowledging the government doesn’t act in good faith).
What about women’s right to be torn to pieces by US bombs?
Blows my fucking mind that anyone in the US could believe the US gov has any interest in helping the people anywhere. They are literally stripping rights away from people in the US, kidnapping every non-white person they can, doing genocides, etc but yeah this time they’re totally gonna help the people…
I like to think I’ve had some impact by pointing out that the US won’t even increase its own minimum wage, so anything they tell you about the dire need for a humanitarian military intervention elsewhere in the world is definitely going to be bullshit.