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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's the US government doing it. I don't care which party provides the current faces. As if that really matters. Killing people is the business that country is in, war is their economy. Sending weapons to anyone is a joke in comparison to past actions. They dropped nukes on people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it's at all appropriate to say that "sending weapons to anyone is a joke in comparison to past actions" when those weapons are actively being used for genocide. We should not be excusing any level of active harm out of numbness from past atrocities.

We can look at the whole picture and denounce the US war machine as colonialist and imperialist, but the wording you used there, the way you're trivializing a very real aspect of the war machine, is dangerously close to genocide apologia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not weighing crimes against each other, the meme is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no, the bottom part is the meme's representation of someone doing "mental acrobatics" to avoid blaming people for issues

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe I'm too autistic, but I think we're all interpreting the meme differently here haha. Maybe that just means it's not a good meme.