It’s charming how the news media still calls it a war, even though traditionally a war in two sides fighting.
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Was this necessary intelligence for shooting people at food distribution lines?
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America showing its acceptance of genocide and its incompetence
This is what happens when you cheap out on foreign contractors
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A colonizer always takes good care of its colony?
Famously so. That's why you were much better of living in Hong Kong in 1949 than the bulk of mainland China. The colony becomes the vehicle for exporting wealth from the interior.
Quite a few HK liberals will protest Chinese rule by waving British (and American) flags. And a small but vocal faction even periodically demand that Hong Kong be returned to the UK.
Incidentally, the economy of Hong Kong has significantly lagged the rest of the Chinese mainland, in no small part because it has lost its position as an exclusive export hub to the wealthy capitalist countries. This has further increased the ahem economic anxiety of Hong Kong natives and fueled waves of protest (most notably the 2019 Umbrella Protests). Without its colonial status, Hong Kong is just another Chinese port city. Still disproportionately wealthy, but no longer this extravagantly rich financialized bottleneck.
For that kind of privilege, you need to move to Singapore.
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US foreign policy has been terrible for generations. It's shit like this that makes me scream "BOTH SIDES", but our two party system always makes people stick to their team.
Both sides, yes, but one side is still WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY worse than the other.
Hesitant as I am to open this can of worms, this always strikes me as saying something like "My manager is way nicer than the HR department. They're the only people who have ever fired anyone"
Like, I guess it is true in a sense? But they are the same. It's not that one is worse or better. One is the designated executor of the intentions that they both share. This allows the executor to look worse, for the exact purpose of maintaining morale among the team and keeping them playing by the manager's rules.
It's like, if both my mom and my dad think that I should be beaten for lying about my grades, and they both secretly decide that mom should be the one to beat me. Is dad way better than mom? Not really. Mom is just doing the dirty work so Dad can keep his hands clean. Then when I get beat I don't decide to run away, because I think "at least Dad isn't so bad, at least Dad doesn't beat me". But Dad does beat me in any sense that matters, he just beats me via the proxy of Mom. You could even say Dad is worse, because he's not only complicit in the beating, but he also conceals his true nature to prevent me from escaping the situation.
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Not all that much on this issue. They're both maximum bad. Neither Biden nor starmer is worse than the conservatives on this issue. Empty gestures aside. Obviously the Republicans and Torries are fucking cunts, I presume I can say that on Lemmy here.
Maybe in the past, they are pretty much the same these days.
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If you are going to be the Bitch, be the whole bitch.
If your goal is to protect Israeli hegemony in the middle east, stand by that position.
Don't try and gaslight people who know better.
It's insane how almost every western country is bending over backwards supporting this genocide in some way while also being extremely embarrassed about it.
It's a part of the neoliberal solution to crimes againt humanity. First, you do it but deny you're doing it. Then, once you're finished (or made to finish) you admit that you did it and it was really bad. Like really bad and you feel just awful about it. Next, you state the time for justice must wait for a fairer season, as it could drum up bad blood and potentially ignite new conflicts. Finally, after some time has passed, you declare that too much time has passed and justice needed to be done sooner, for now we can no longer punish the perpetrators and would just punish innocents caught in the way(who still have the benefits from whatever their parents did).
Huzzah! We did it kids! Society progressed and everyone is treated fairly now! /s
Don’t try and gaslight people who know better.
Gaslighting is how you control a population that's largely in the dark. "No, we're not actually supporting Israel. Only the far-left wackos and the Russian anti-UK agitators are saying that."
Now that this news has leaked you'll get some rebuttal of "Yes, of course we were helping Israel. That's not news at all. But we were helping them kill the terrorists. Only a Muslim Extremist Antisemite would complain about us protecting innocent Israelis from Radical Islamic Extremism."