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yeah pax americana was pretty peaceful for ~~iraq~~ ~~afghanistan~~ ~~libya~~ ~~yemen~~ palestine ?xd.

phD military history lol

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah dude that's the point.

'Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.'

The world sucks and we need the established order to shatter if we're going to have enough maneuvering room to fix it.

the Pax Americana's deterrent effect on Hamas

Holy shit this is about Hamas? Which has killed at most, what, 10k people during it's entire existence? Lol you've got to be shitting me what about the million people wiped out in just one American war of aggression?

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

"we might be subjected to a fraction of what we've subjected the world to"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

yeah pax americana was pretty peaceful for iraq afghanistan libya yemen palestine ?xd.

i mean let alone all the coups and like grenada for instance...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"This is the most peaceful time in history!"

Yeah because the USSR and the Allies squished some of the fascists during the most brutal and widespread war in history, then sat staring at each other with their fingers hovering over the big red button for fifty years. Now the USSR is gone, fascism is once again on the rise, and we've seen the first large-scale conventional war between modern armies in a very long time. So toss that "most peaceful time in history" shit in the bin, that era is over and we are full steam in to "man made horrors" and the cool zone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't most Soviet "foreign" intervention in Warsaw Pact countries or in support of those liberating themselves from colonialist powers?

Gee that sure sounds unpeaceful to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

All of it, afaik. Even in Afghanistan they were called in by the very fragile and not very legitimate communist government.

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

debate broing a bit here but i didnt mention those cause they were during the cold war and pax americana to me is the period after the cold war, 'end of history' and all that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i can have a little debate broing as a treat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

need you to send me ur full name and ssn (or whatever your country's identification numbers are) so I can get you to a reeducation camp when we win, to save your soul ASAP

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No no, please, we can put these skills to good use! I fall apart emotionally during debate because of childhood trauma, maybe we need some debate bros to fill in the rhetorical gaps left by people like me.

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

maybe we need some debate bros

SHIT, the debate pervert mind-virus is spreading. MODS! we need to get this situation under control!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

i can have a little debate broing as a treat

bugs-no You do not get an irony pass for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Noah Smith is an insane bad take shit machine. He's reaching unimaginable bad takes levels not thought possible.

Another example - https://hexbear.net/post/813735

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

have lost the plot

When liberals say that what they mean is that things happening aren't conforming to the template in their treats (the plot they are looking for is there) so clearly it must be wrong. wojak-nooo

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

He's like a living, breathing LibChatBot. There needs to be a Noah Smith generator.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is just City On a Hill Savage Hordes rhetoric with a thin veneer of pure logicbrain pragmatism (like the cool calculated bendydick slumberbatch characters on tv)