CA isn’t really the problem that, say, Kentucky is

Reactionaries in California outnumber reactionaries in Kentucky 10:1

It’s not California being a dick.

California is flush with right wing reactionaries and techno-fascist shitheads.

Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished

We’re not being collectively judged and punished. Some number of American wine distributors are seeing a decline in their Canadian portfolios.

Why would the rest of us give a shit? That’s their problem, not ours.

Me, a Canada: “By not purchasing American wine, I am making a big difference in their foreign policy”

You, a 1⁰ increase in the average annual temperature: “Adorable”

With the tight link between the US and Israel, I think we’d need a regime change at home before we saw any progress abroad.

This is what I expect our leaders to do.

Under Biden, our leaders had the capacity to preempt the genocide, remove the Netanyahu government from power, and establish a full sovereign Palestinian state.

This is very dangerous. And it’s definitely bringing more attention to a horror show that’s fallen out of the public eye. But it’s a far cry from what the party needs to be doing

The most prominent leader of the movement, former radio presenter Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma

We need to shut down radios. No more sending broadcast messages, until we can figure out what’s going on.

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Yup.

Like, off the top of my head? Officials made up a story about Iraqi soldiers murdering Kuwaiti infants in hospital NICUs to sell the 1991 Operation Desert Storm.

Facts don’t care about your "I think"s. Your “I think” is an opinion.

Opinions the heuristics one uses when exposed to incomplete data.

Destroying 1000 daycares is worse than destroying 100 daycares.

Throwing out a bigger number based on the allegations of serial liars is fact-based. And continuing to trust the allegations of an organization that would flatten 100 daycares on a whim is an error in judgement.

I wish people sincerely thought this way.

we do not have verification that more than 8000 Uighurs died

The big difference between the Chinese War on Terror in Xinjiang and the American War on Terror in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia is that Hu Jintao (he was The Good One, can’t speak ill of Hu) Xi Jinping did it using the Dark Arts of Communism rather than the Liberty-imbued Democracy Bombs of Capitalism.

Therefore, every Uighur killed in a police raid on a mosque or who died in a detention camp in Loupu is worse than any ten an American killed with a Shock And Awe bombing run or tortured to death at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay.

So that 8,000 is closer to 80,000. And when you use the Black Book of Communism math to count the unborn decendents of those dead Muslims (whom we love, because Americans universally condemn all forms of Islamophobia and embrace all religions equally) we’re talking about 800,000. Maybe even 8M. Certainly possible it’s more than that, depending on which libertarian think tank or AI chatbot is running the numbers.

Also I haven’t heard about China bombing girls schools.

China has killed more than 100 Million Muslim Girls. Adrian Zenz told me so.

That argument could have been made with obama-era Amereica

Barack Obama Is A War Criminal

During his presidency, Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes that killed approximately 3,797 people. In fact, Obama authorized 54 drone strikes alone in Pakistan during his first year in office. One of the first CIA drone strikes under President Obama was at a funeral, murdering as many as 41 Pakistani civilians. The following year, Obama led 128 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan that killed at least 89 civilians.

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The drone operations extended to Somalia and Yemen in 2010 and 2011, resulting in more destructive results. Under the belief they were targeting al-Qaida, President Obama’s first strike on Yemen killed 55 people including 21 children, 10 of which were under the age of five. Additionally, 12 women, five of them pregnant, were also among those who were murdered in this strike. These blundered acts of murder by not only President Obama, but the U.S. government, are morally reprehensible.

Even more civilian casualties came out of Afghanistan throughout Barack Obama’s time in office. In 2014, Obama began removing troops currently deployed in the country. However, instead of this action by the president being one in a pursuit of peace and stability in the region, it only acted as an opportunity to drastically increase air warfare. Afghanistan had war rained upon them by U.S. bombardment, with the administration viciously dropping 1,337 weapons on Afghanistan in 2016. In total that year, the Obama administration dropped 26,171 bombs (drone or otherwise) across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The U.S., in cooperation with its allies including the Afghan government, killed 582 civilians on average annually from 2007 to 2016.

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With the exception of the wars themselves, the claim that former President Barack Obama is a war criminal also lies within the double-tap initiative. Double-tap drone strikes are as disturbing as they sound; these attacks are follow-up strikes on first responders as they rush to the bombed area trying to assist any survivors. In 2012, an attack on the Shawal Valley aimed at Taliban commander Sadiq Noor reportedly killed up to 14 people in a double-tap drone strike. These attacks are both morally and legally reprehensible, as they are conscious acts of murder against civilians.

So much of what Obama presided over was an extension of the Bush, Clinton, and Reagan policies which were themselves extensions of our wars in Vietnam and Korea. What separates Obama from Trump largely boils down to volume. But the policies were no different than Putin’s illegal actions in Crimea and Chechnya. Or Netanyahu’s engineered famine in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Russia, Israel and China are all doing their genocides on a scale far bigger than what USA

American Exceptionalism strikes again.

You’ve got Americans blowing up hospitals and daycares in Iran, shooting up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, sieging Cuba to the point of mass starvation, and facilitating genocides from Libya to Afghanistan. But the pre-programmed western response is “I think the other countries are worse!” That’s all that matters. You heard the other guys were worse.

Russia, Israel and China should all be treated the same.

Sure. The same as America.

unauditable US defence budget

Crazy how that budget is just a black hole and nobody can do anything about it. Wish the legislature had some kind of oversight ability, or at least the power to control how money is spent.

“We don’t need your charity, we need the pin code to your debt card.”