• Sidhean@piefed.social
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    “We came across some civilians, so we shot them, stabbed them, and threw corpses in the ocean.”

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      After the war crimes I’ve read about, the reality of “special forces” is basically the government spending hundreds of millions training psychopaths to be the most efficient killing machines, giving them state sanctioned immunity, and endless opportunities to commit war crimes; all justice silenced under “national security”.

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      It’s a tale as old as America. America killed tens of thousands to steal California etc from Mexico. They killed over a million Vietnamese peasant farmers, to defend French colonialism, then surrendered (lol).

      The amount of money both “conservatives” and neoliberals worked hand in hand to embezzle for weapons manufacturers — during the war on terror alone — could’ve linked every major US city with bullet trains.

      The theft of the American oligarchy from American workers is in the tens of trillions, with a capital T.

      The emperor never had any clothes, has always been a capitalist dictatorship, and Trump’s depravity is just continued accelerationism of an imperialist superpower collapsing under the weigh of its own corruption.

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      That would land it solidly in Biden’s term right? Two years outside of Trump’s first term.

      Edit: nope, misread some dates. This was smack dab in the middle of Trump’s first term.

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        My sibling in FSM, solid props to you for not just deleting your comment, but rather admitting your mistake and leaving it up with the edit. The world needs more of that kind of energy.

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          Yeah, that sounds like the kind of operation he’d sign off on, give no thought to, and just forget about.

          Edit: I wasn’t even right. Trump served from 2017 - 2021.

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        “reportedly approved by US President Donald Trump, a leading US news outlet reports.”… Presidents can sign orders and actions that get approved concurrently and then not be enacted until x date so are the cuts coming from the Big Beautiful Bill Biden too?

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          I’m not defending Trump or his administration here. I just saw the title, saw the info about it being in 2019, and connected some dots.

          The BBB being Biden’s fault doesn’t even make cursory sense. Compared to an operation executed during Biden’s Presidency it’s apples and oranges.

          Edit: Also, I got the term dates solidly wrong. Trump served from 2017 to 2021, so it was in the middle of Trump’s first term.

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            The sense to be made, republicans usually go… “but Biden… or x democrat” so the point I was trying to make was expect to hear a lot of upcoming problems blame being pinned onto the future elected party (most likely going to be dem after this bs) rather than those who enacted the bill/policy.

            Don’t mean to come off as snappy, just tired of this same song and dance from 2016, except more openly facist.