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Every Republican presidential since Reagan has dragged us into a war of some sort.
Well, yeah
By the standards of the Nuremberg trials, every president since Eisenhower has been a war criminal. Chomsky wrote a piece on this in 1990, giving brief but convincing arguments for every president individually up till then. The pattern hasn't stopped since then. Bush needs no argument, I hope. Obama has his explicit protection of the torturers of abu ghraib, the expansion of the drone program which killed thousands (including hundreds of civilians), killed an entire wedding. Biden bombed Yemen, Syria, and others, and of course the genocide. Trump, I hope, needs no argument. Terrorist state.
https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
Except every democrat who has done the same
I mean sure they're hawkish too, but they haven't started a war since LBJ.
heck they get flak for not getting us out of ones started by republicans in a good enough manner.
What's truer is every Republican has sent the economy into a recession.
Really? Prove it.
e: you’ve had an hour. It shouldn’t take this long to prove something you so confidently asserted.
Holy cow my man. Do you live on here?
Like, not agreeing with the guy, but if you assume that he didn't respond to you in an hour because he can't, as opposed to just having a life, that's a far more negative reflection on you than him.
Most people aren't on here every waking hour. And if you are, I genuinely recommend you self reflect and maybe step away from the keyboard a bit.
Personally, I find it distasteful to default to "man" when referring to people that you're unsure of the pronouns of, especially those that are seemingly female presenting. This is an example in choosing your battles, because nitpicking someone detracts from their point. Pettifogging and such.
Furthermore, I think the number of sentences in your reply is entertaining, for someone criticizing another for spending too much time on this app. Also yes I am indeed pettifogging. =^}
Listen my guy, I definitely don't read all these dude's usernames when I post.
But while I'm sure being misgendered is upsetting to any hombres I've mistakenly done it to, I feel like there's a difference between misgendering some bro in real life and over a faceless medium like a message board. Or, as I like to call it, a man-ssage board.
... And yeah, I'm overly wordy. It's just how I post. Stream of consciousness bby!
No, but when I say something controversial, I tend to monitor replies for a short while in case anyone responds.
I don’t tend to troll, but I’d expect a troll to monitor even longer, since otherwise what’s the point?
(Hence, I’m still in here.)
You also need to factor in update delays. Sometimes its hours before you are notified that someone replied.
Nah, you just sound like a prick.
I was thinking about Obama's Libya, Afghanistan, ISIS while Clinton was complicit in striking Yugoslavia.
Biden is a lesser match here, but he could be blamed for enabling Israel in 2023
Ps: have you assumed I was getting a healthy piece of sleep?
FYI this user is Russian:
https://lemmy.world/comment/22418954
MAGA would use the same tactics you use replacing the word "Russian" for "Mexican". Not sure how racism helps.
I am. How's that related?
Your comment implied American. Dragged “us”.
They never said "us", the person they were replying to did.
Sorry, you're right. The us is still inferred, but I am also not American and feel affected and shocked by American politics.
You inferred it, but they didn't insinuate it.
I didn't imply it and I sincerely fail to see how my remark on your beloved democrats is relevant to my ethnicity or nationality
I'm not American either, but it's pretty relevant when you're in a proxy war with the country you are criticizing.
Am I in a proxy war? Wtf I'm not aware of it
That depends on whether you consider the russian imperialist invasion of a neighboring sovereign nation (Ukraine) to be a proxy war with the US and Western Europe
Nah I remember tons of republicans pressure to commit troops to Somalia and Kosovo, which he resisted, thank god