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“My tax dollars going into ruining that country so yeah it is an "our on issues"”

“other than america funding Israel how tho??”

lenin-rage

Is it normal for communists to feel as dismally about the people of their own country as I do now?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hate to even say this, but leave Palestine aside for a second: both the Democratic and Republican parties were completely happy to sell you out and have a million Americans die to COVID. That's more than 200x as many deaths as 9/11. If you want the situation to improve at home because you're too much of a chauvinist to consider what's happening in Palestine, at least set your aim a little higher than being slaughtered to calm the markets.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think 9/11 is just a political tool at this point because it’s certainly not about the death count

This is exactly what Stalin meant by the “a single death is a tragedy” quote

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

It was likely a fake quote but I do find it funny how liberals use it to frame Stalin as callous and unscrupulous when the last five or so years have been instructive.