• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      The US, famous for just rolling over. You guys are on more copium than imperial japan and it’s hilarious.

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      9 months ago

      The US has a lot of criticism that can be leveled at it, but “paper tiger” certainly isn’t one.

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          9 months ago

          If what the US did to Vietnam and Cambodia over 20+ years is a “paper tiger” then uh, I don’t think a real tiger exists.

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              9 months ago

              I guess if killing 1million+ Vietnamese is something a “paper tiger” does sure the US is a “paper tiger.”

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                Yes. This isn’t call of duty where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. The US got its ass kicked.

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                  9 months ago

                  Yes I get it. The US lost the Vietnam war. The issue is that a “paper tiger” doesn’t kill 1million+ people. Losing a war doesn’t mean you are a paper tiger.

                  Is Hamas also a paper tiger? Russia? Israel?

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    9 months ago

    Geopolitically speaking, you should completely pull out of Israel. Seriously, do it. Pull all funding from Israel.

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    9 months ago

    Why is Israel, who is hardly the victim in their conflict and strangely very well funded by US taxpayers ,being conflated with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a dictatorship?

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        9 months ago

        Israel’s fighting a small population in a small territory.

        Ukraine is fighting the largest country in the world by land mass, with more soldiers than there are Palestinians. And they’re a nuclear power, too.

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          9 months ago

          Israel is genociding and colonising Palestine since about 80 years. Ukraine was genociding Donbass for 8 years.

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        9 months ago

        Palestine isn’t getting our support, and these current events will not change that at all.

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      9 months ago

      Christ what resolution was that image? 8k?! Why was it 6MB? I got to watch that load in like dial up, 1 line at a time. I finished the punchline before an elbow even appeared on my screen

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        9 months ago

        Me living in a (semi-)civilized nation which actually has access to high speed internet

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    9 months ago

    Why do you need to support Israel at all beyond the amount that was previously being done? They’re not in an actual war and they’re not having to defend against an invasion like Ukraine is.