you’re really not going to accept that systematic racism (gentrification, the War on Drugs, racial profiling, job discrimination, etc.) exists unless there’s like literally a law that says “you should be racist” in big colorful letters, are you?
I’m honestly in disbelief that people like you, who think that racism was completely solved in the 60s when King did the famous speech, still exist
it is 100% a dominance thing
fucking bunch of high schoolers these governments are
why do you think that the US in particular has the responsibility to directly get involved?
it’s not that; it’s that it’s the US doing it for a country halfway across the world, as if we’re actually going there to help instead of taking advantage of the situation because Russia’s involved
if we do go there, it’s not gonna be for aid
you might be surprised by how many people don’t understand this tho
you’re moving the goalposts
someone criticizing the US government isn’t an attack on US citizens; like it’s kind of weird how we identify so hard with the country itself such that the country being criticized feels like a fundamental personal attack
this is a weird take; aren’t police literally the arbiters of said systemically racist policies and laws?
like isn’t that their colloquial job definition?
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but like, why did it take him tanking Twitter for many to realize that he’s just a manbaby with a diamond-encrusted platinum pacifier
like it’s really weird that it wasn’t clear when he called that one guy who saved those kids in that cave a pedophile because the guy told Musk that his invention wouldn’t be useful for the rescue effort; like people didn’t see how shitty he was after he said that
man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn’t happen?
the government is racist, though
like demonstrably racist
OP wasn’t talking about the average people
ah, that’s not surprising
really bad, but not surprising
okay, there’s no getting to you then
also I didn’t mention China
yeah, but still, it’s the US doing this
after offering to give Ukraine fucking cluster bombs (and after decades of the US doing the same warcrime shit during every invasion they do), I have zero confidence that they’re not going to make the conflict so much worse
like I’m not actually communist in any meaningful sense, but they have a point about how brainwashed us Americans are pertaining the military and foreign interventions
like again, it’s not an action movie; we’re not fucking heroes in a Saturday morning cartoon; we’re a country sending human beings to kill other human beings for almost certainly selfish reasons
War’s not a fucking game, and the US isn’t “the savior of the world” either; it’s a country that has interests and does things to obtain or sustain those interests, and some of those things include invading other countries (like we did with Vietnam and Korea and Laos and especially the Middle East) and subverting the governments of other countries ( pick a South American country )
like if you can’t understand that nations mainly work in their own interests and that the US has a very old pattern of invading and subverting other countries for that interest as opposed to the countries’ own interests for itself, then you basically won’t actually be able to understand any kind of foreign policy, especially that of the US’s
it’s just baffling that you can genuinely think that the US is a hero in any military situation, after what we’ve done for decades
are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?
probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case
yeah, it really is a mystery
like if we really had to send weapons, there are so many more that exist that won’t cause unfathomably horrific damage that is so horrific that like nearly half of the fucking world considers them warcrimes
like it’s fucking horrid that Russia’s using them, but like what the hell is wrong with the US to think “hey, we’ll use it too”
(but then again, the US and Russia did refuse to sign the CCM)
Russia is very capitalist; like how exactly are they communist at all??