• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    I mean honestly, US presidents killing random people and families the world over for literally no reason is nothing new. On the scale of Trump stuff, this is pretty minor, as sad as that is to say.

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        2 months ago

        Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven’t had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it’s an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it’ll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.

        (Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren’t fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)

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      2 months ago

      It’s shocking how the media just repeat the statements of this government without any questions asked. They’re really functioning as propaganda distributors rather than journalists these days. We’re seeing it also with them repeating uncritically the FBI’s claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect.

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      2 months ago

      The media is really careful about using “alleged” in cases where they obviously dont need to, in order to sow doubt, and not using it in cases where they definitely need to, to pretend that some bullshit narrative is certain even though the opposite is true

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    2 months ago

    I mean, the first war crime had no consequences whatsoever, so why would he stop? I bet we’ll see more and more “extremely dangerous narcoterrorists” executed without due process or even a warrant - soon probably also within the US, not just on international waters…

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    Entire seasons of television have had plots based on the U.S. government doing this once, either secretly or by accident, and how they strive to make amends and reparations to avoid international conflict, and it all happens behind closed doors because everyone is terrified of the certainty of scandal should word ever get out. And now here we are.

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      2 months ago

      No shit its a tiny fucking boat. Of course if they did that. Then we all know it was boat of fisherman and not drig dealers.

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        2 months ago

        A glorious waste of a missile and millions of dollars - let alone the lives lost. They do love wasting money and the violence/evil is the point

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    2 months ago

    And fuck every shit stain rag news site that prints “kinetic strike” without quotations.