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This reminds me of Trudeau and his 'extended humanitarian pause'. Western politicians having fun with words.
Other "fun" euphemisms from the West:
Enhanced Interrogation (torture)
Extraordinary Rendition (state kidnapping and illegal extradition)
Lethal Aid (Weapon exports)
No Fly Zone (Taking over enemy air space via force)
Boots on the Ground (Invasion)
Targeted/Precision Killings (Indiscriminate Bombing)
War on Terror (Eternal conflict used to divide and conquer, funding terrorists)
Overseas Contingency Operations (Miscellaneous Imperialist Adventures)
Collateral Damage (Innocent casualties we don't care about)
Surge (Do more of the thing we are already doing, sunk cost fallacy)
Shock and Awe (Mass destruction of civilian infrastructure and war terror)
Regime (Big bad government we don't like)
Moderate Rebels (Actual fascist jihadists)
"Foreign policy" is just euphemism for "fake shit that doesn't matter. Stop looking at it. You wouldn't understand, peasant. But if you MUST look then you better understand that it might look bad, but it's all necessary, and you better never question a single thing"
It's almost impressive (as an American) once you remove your head from the bullshit cloud and see that the stuff they de-emphasize, mystify, and lie about is actually the most important shit to pay attention to and (basically across the board with extremely few exceptions) oppose totally.
Unfortunately when you have a nation like the US where people are legitimately mostly ignorant of specifics about how exploited the world is, but also day to day conditions are dogshit at home, you essentially cannot get people to see the bigger picture that the world is suffering for the benefit of (mostly) our top few percent and the only way to end that suffering of the world and then suffering at home is to end the military industrial complex. I mean I try to tell Americans this shit and legitimately they stare at me like "uhhhh oooook? Wait how does that help me?" People nominally left-leaning (I won't call them leftists because, well, they aren't. But they might call themselves that).
Makes me feel like I'm the one on crazy pills when I'm yelling into the void day after day. Even the people who do become somewhat radicalized get caught in the day to day trappings of focusing on their own survival. Which I don't fault people as individuals for... it seems to be the entire setup of the system actually.
It's this old classic. The stuff in the middle that both parties agree on is the satanic shit we should actually be the most opposed to. Whenever anyone bemoans that our nation is "too divided" what they mean is that too many people are pushing back against "consensus" center items here. That's why we must be more "bipartisan", to ensure that despite our differences the truly crucial parts of empire continue to function unopposed.
that's a really good graphic
it definitely could do with some pruning from a design perspective (get rid of "venn diagram" at the top and the "things the two parties have in common" at the bottom and the red arrow). We understand how venn diagrams work buddy
Dumbed down so libs can understand.
Ben Garrison ass meme but lib
lol at 'overseas contingency operations'
also 'all options are on the table' for threatening to attack other countries
Hello nima shirazi or adam johnson, you've finally revealed yourself
Blast I have to re-make another sock puppet now
Don't forget prison camps (prisons), secret police (intelligence agency), propaganda (most public statements), for the "governments we don't like" genre.
You know when a lib or neolib mentions the word "extended" it's extended shit.