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Also "Anti-War protesters are protesting war? Who could have seen this coming?"

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

that's the war they choose to protest

Since its founding in 2002, Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK has protested against US intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, Columbia, and Honduras. Amongst anyone, she has the most receipts.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

What's this great purge thing and why wasn't I invited

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Hell i even seen the all favourite lemmy lib source getting called what it is:

[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess the Nuland-Pyatt thing just kinda disappeared from lib brains

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Helps that it's not really widely reported on.

Like they'll report stuff without context.

Like how they're reporting the stuff happening in Africa. They'll just say that fighting is happening and dumb racist westerners will just be like "The stupid brown people are blowing each other up again."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Of course it did

When your brain is fried by obsessively watching the 24 hour news networks, you don't remember five minutes ago, much less five years ago

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

liberals support american foreign interventions like charlie brown supports wanting to kick the football football-lucy football-charlie-brown

"Okay it was bad and they lied to us the last 738 times, but THIS time though"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Libs be like biaoqing-copium

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Every day our emoji game grows stronger

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

'actually it might be the only conflict in the entirety of the globe we had no hand in starting'

oh man talk about being close to the truth

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Man who commits arson every day for the past 50 years claims he didn’t light this house on fire. Everyone believes him and is not interested in investigating.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

off-by-one error

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They are only close to the truth in the sense in which a christian is almost atheist because he don't believe in every god except one.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess blowing up an oil pipeline and hosting a sanctioned hit list is not direct involvement

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

the USA is also heavily involved in Ukraine's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) cycle, including supplying lots of satellite information

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

we didn't have a direct involvement in starting.

"It was a bloodless coup (all pillow smotherings)"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And maybe a building full of people set fire.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

how convenient that you choose to protest the most recent war smuglord

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"we must support the current war no matter what" maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

nineteeneightyfour use your minimum wage checks to buy Ukrainian soldiers ammunition

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

One of the few large modern conflicts we didn't have direct involvement in starting.

picard

You've gotta be kidding me

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

obviously what matters is who started it, grade school style. Why would anyone be concerned about the ongoing supply of the weapons doing half the killing? clearly what matters here is blame, not human lives. Fucking baby brains

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

its true, nobody protested the other wars