• null@piefed.nullspace.lol
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    Even factoring in the US’ atrocities, yes, claiming that the US is worse than Al Queda pound-for-pound on number of deaths is absurd.

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      How about decades of torture programs, disappearing people, CIA interventions, political assasinations and terror attacks? The US is pretty good at those too. Leaving drug empires everywhere they go, stealing natural resources through warfare, corruption and murdering union workers. Poisoning their own population, slavery and the ongoing oppression of people of colour, the Tuskegee experiment, MKUltra, institutional racism that is still killing people and harming communities, economic warfare, using chemicals and gas attacks on their own citizens and abroad, ruining vast swathes of ecosystems for short term gain, normalizing corruption, shielding oil companies from consequences, several genocides among which the still grossly under recognized genocide of the First Nations that is also ongoing. Their illegal economic boycots, illegal wars, their ongoing support for Israel as it commits a genocide, their support for literally Al Qaida in their fight against ISIS, the support for ISIS aligned groups in Gaza, their illegal war against Iran and their other illegal wars against Iran, their spread of military bases all over the world, their refusal to adhere to International law, their refusal to commit to nonproliferation, their refusal of justice for people who lived downwind of nuclear tests and who are still to this day harmed by their effects, their support of Apartheid South-Africa and Rhodesia and their refusal to respond adequately to several genocides. The United States is the most hated country in the world for a reason dude. Millions were killed and billions have been affected by their bullshit and they won’t stop anytime soon.

      Like what the fuck are you even arguing here?

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        I’m arguing that claiming that the US is worse than Al Queda pound-for-pound on number of deaths is absurd.

        I thought that was pretty clear.

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          Nice goalposts why don’t you move them some more

          Never said pound for pound dude. The US has done more evil than any other empire combined and it is not even close. AQ isn’t even a fly to a sun when it comes to the US. Get your head out of the 2003 war on terror bullshit and stick that American flagpole where the sun don’t shine. The rest of the world is done with your shit.

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            3 days ago

            The US has done more evil than any other empire combined and it is not even close.

            Also just clocked this gem of a braindead take. Lmaoooo

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            We’re talking about the article, which is about Hasan’s quote, which I am quoting verbatim.

            About which you said:

            He’s right though.

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                Pretty unhinged take, but okay.

                Have fun sweeping for tankie losers like Hasan.

                This is your logic by the way: “Pound for pound, Sweden is more evil than Jeffrey Dahmer”

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                  You’re incapable of perceiving structural violence for what it is. Violence. Just hilarious honestly. Absolute libshit.

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                    You’re incapable of perceiving structural violence for what it is.

                    Nope, I can do that just fine. You can’t seem to do simple math or logic though.