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dictator death = good. Trump not having coherent plan for country he’s destabilizing = bad.Some of you are genuinely the most egotistical idiots known to man. You guys just respond to each other while ignoring what each other said or by completely misinterpreting it. “I don’t dictators” “oh so you like Hitler because he was against Stalin?” Like jeez guys cmon. And don’t get me started on the hot button issue of “US intervention CAN be OK” and yet for some reason you guys actually read it as “US intervention is always necessary”
The criticism is that you’re yet another “I oppose every war except the current one” liberal. Which I guess makes sense, given your entire personality is glazing Democrats. And if Republicans are War Hawks, I guess Democrats are like War Owls. Sneakier about it, but absolutely still a raptor.
Democrats are sneaky because they’ll trot out Dick Cheney, to endorse their candidate whose entire nomination acceptance speech was about being “more lethal” militarily, and said “Iran is our greatest adversary” repeatedly, and then be like “if we would’ve won, we wouldn’t be doing this Iran stuff!” after they lose and the Republicans start doing this Iran stuff that America as a whole has wanted to do for like 50 years now
Before Pearl Harbor, we were aiding the Allies and we had an oil embargo on the Axis, which was devastating their war efforts. It’s not like we weren’t INVOLVED already, we just weren’t FIGHTING yet. Pearl Harbor was Japan retaliating against us for the oil embargo, and is what got us fighting rather than just sponsoring our allies.
Most Americans didn’t know about the camps, but our high ranking officials definitely had intelligence that the Nazis were engaged in ethnic cleansing. They didn’t realize the full extent of it, but they knew about *something* going on. But again, the Holocaust was mostly perpetrated in occupied Poland and the occupied parts of the Western USSR. Places we wouldn’t have gotten to quick enough even with earlier direct involvement.
There were articles written about crimes in Germany from American journalist it wasn’t totally unknown to the American public. My understanding is if you were someone in the 1940s you could probably reasonably put together that some kind of genocide or crimes were going on.
Why would I form my opinions on the issues of the past without contextualizing those opinions into the past? Sure, if I put on my Hindsight Blinders, institute the Manhattan Project 10 years earlier and nuke Berlin in 1939. Sure, why not just completely disregard the material realities of the time period?
Keep in mind the word genocide didn’t even exist yet. It was invented to describe the events we’re talking about now, which were not fully brought to light until the Soviets started liberating death camps. Before the Soviets told us what they’d found in 1943-44, we had no reason to think it was anything other than standard ethnic oppression like so many other countries, including our own, engaged in.
Bc I’m not asking you if you would nuke Berlin lmao. It’s a yes or no question this should’ve been an easy thing idk why we’re playing so many mental games with it. With all the knowledge we have today, US soil isn’t attacked you’re the person who gets to decide, should the U.S. attack Nazi Germany?
I mean I’d be willing to get involved earlier if I had all the answers, sure. But that’s a dumb hypothetical, I do not in fact possess a time machine. Shit, if I had all the answers and all the power of the American government in that time period, why wouldn’t I just go back a couple more years and have some spy agency kill Hitler before he took power? Obviously, if someone knew as much as God compared to everyone else around them, they could make the best play.
Ok then just say “yes I would attack Germany” it’s not that deep. I’m not talking about time travel or anything it’s just a hypothetical about one question. I didn’t know hypotheticals would be this hard to get through. The point of my question is I’m trying to get at how you understand policy choices not what would you do with a Time Machine lmao.
Bringing up US intervention in WWII is crazy lmao. First, that was the last time that Congress actually voted to declare war (which was my other point). Second, Nazi Germany actually declared war on us after Pearl Harbor and dragged us into Europe. You can be against the Ayatollah while also being against US aggression and intervention, especially when it creates a large possibility of the US invading Iran.
No I don’t, I think invading the U.S. would be ultra stupid bc it would start a nuclear war among other reasons. You’re just rambling like I said just say what exactly I said that you think is wrong/bad not your weird interpretation of what you think I’m trying to say. Just paraphrase or give an exact quote.
I do care about genocide again we have a factual difference not a moral difference about what events are genocides. Idk how your connecting it to the holocaust point. No and no, bc I wouldn’t characterize either as a genocide and I think invading nuclear powers should be avoided most of the time. I feel like I already responded to a lot of this but we’re rambling like I said.
I don’t think I have to agree with international bodies factually. That’s fine if you want to say the UN is more knowledge than me I would probably agree but that doesn’t mean I have to agree. I’ve moved back and forth on the Israel Palestine conflict multiple times so I don’t make super strong claims about it or rlly post it that much for that reason.
I’m saying I’ll look at the evidence and maybe change my mind I haven’t seen the report from the commission. That’s not me disregarding evidence. You haven’t shown any evidence you just pointed to a UN report I didn’t know existed until right now, which is probably bad for me to have not seen but I’ve been pretty busy lately.
Woah ad hom that means your argument is bad. So if anyone removes people who are staying in the country illegally is that ethnic cleansing? That’s cool you found the wiki definition but you have to contextualize definitions, definitions by themselves aren’t dynamic even though our use of words might be.
If you’re making the “US intervention CAN be OK” argument in the middle of a Not OK US intervention, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say you’re carrying a little bit of water for the empire. Less water than the straight-up pro-war Republicans, sure, but that’s just because Republicans at least have the backbone to be evil. Democrats can’t carry water for shit, because they have no spine, so they do this mealy-mouthed nuance-peddling and equivocation.
I’ll clarify my position bc I don’t think I’m being clear on one thing. If you want to say Trump is doing ethnic cleansing then sure I probably wouldn’t super disagree with that. The problem I see is it feels like you’re defining it in way that would include any internal immigration enforcement that’s my disagreement.
Imma be honest, I don’t really get your point. I’m not pro war, I don’t like the drafts which means I really don’t like Vietnam especially because it was a war against the red scare which was stupid to begin with. I do like that we helped the allies with supplies, because like I’ll say again, some U.S. intervention can be good.
And to talk about the G.W.Bush, I’ve known lots of people that really don’t like him because of his cruel actions. And for this reason I don’t like 90% of the politicians because they bend over backwards to please another person even if it hurts the American People. The current war in Iran parallels the Afghan war, Venezuela is also the same. We do it for the resources, and when we finish we leave them with no resources or support. I really fucking hate it.
Again not saying you defined white supremacy idk how many times I have to clarify the same thing over and over in the same convo. I never disagreed with you on any that. I never said it wasn’t related or any of the other shit you’ve rambled about. Yeah it’s about 72 pages if you knew anything about it you wouldn’t expect someone to read it this quickly. But you like to pretend you’re knowledgeable able things I get it.
You did engage with it you were just too much of dipshit to engage with it without a Time Machine lmao. You had to invent a backstory so you could grasp how someone from the past can know a thing they wouldn’t normally know. Most people can just imagine that without a backstory about time machines lol.
Sure I understand what happened I saw you talking about the definition then I saw your post about white supremacy I assumed that was your definition before I read your reply that wasn’t in my inbox. To clarify, so I understand what you meant by your original comment about white supremacy was saying.