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Well they are attacking our shipping sooo...
Sooooo corporations should actually pay more in taxes and the ultra wealthy that benefit from our subsidizing their global police force should too.
It's pretty disgusting that they on the one hand tell us our gigantic military budget is needed to protect global shipping lanes but also we need to reduce taxes on the ultra wealthy and their corporations too...
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My dude this war in Yemen has been going on for like 10 years. If the idea of bombing Yemen sounds out of left field to you, then you are woefully uninformed.
I had the opportunity to live in Berlin for a year. I made friends with a group of Yemen students. All of these people had friends, family or relatives bombed to death. Over the course of 2 weeks, one person lost 3 relatives to the bombings...
These people were sent to Germany to study and be as far away as possible from the horrors at home. Away from friends, family, everyone.
I was told that after flying to somewhere near Yemen, it would have taken another 16 hours to travel by road to get home. Their parents refused them coming to visit because it was just too dangerous.
I don't know how they managed to hold their shit together and carry on even as their families were getting bombed back home.
It broke my heart and I felt powerless to even attempt to comfort them. I'm sure they felt a sense of powerlessness that's beyond anything I could understand at that time.
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Sounds par for the course in the USA.
People are literally surprised when somebody reads out actual policy which was signed into law and who voted for it.
Because our entire election cycle isn't spent on policy, but character attacks.
To be fair, there's plenty of material to attack, so I guess they get distracted.
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The amount of times Republicans said “we killed terrorists” during the congressional hearing, without even once considering that the 53 fatalities from an indiscriminate air strike likely included innocent civilians, is revolting.
If you kill 1 terrorist and 52 civilians, um no you didn't, they were all terrorists. Problem solved.
#murder #justkillin
You've also just cemented the idea that the West is evil in the families and friends of those 52 innocent people, thereby ensuring a steady supply of fresh new "terrorists".
Killing 52 civilians to get one terrorist seems like a bit of a fuck up though.
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With US track record a majority if not all of those 53 people were civilians
This is why the US and Israel get along so famously 👍
Because it’s sensational that so incompetent people are in charge.
Launching a $2 million dollar missile and crushing a few children to death should also be sensational.
Unfortunately here in America that's just another Saturday.
The fact that sensation is the motivating factor for reporting is a problem
It's not like there hasn't been (and there isn't currently) reporting that's critical of US foreign policy but this kind of foreign policy has been going on continually for our entire lifetimes (and before) There have been protests and complaints. But in the end the vast majority of us care more about our daily lives than some kid in Yemen being bombed, especially when it feels like we can't do anything about it. So we move on.
Obviously it's not right but as a society we've all decided we just don't care enough to do anything about it.
This guy says that like "bombing Yemen" isn't a de facto tradition for U.S. presidents. I'm pretty sure every president since Clinton has bombed Yemen at some point during their term. It's old hat. It's not news. It was Tuesday.
Like, sure, it's terrible and no one will deny that, but we've been doing it for 20+ years. This? This clownfuckery? This was new.
It is so normal nobody even mentioned the innocent lives being lost as colleteral damage at the hearing
Unfortunately it's always been the case for as long as humans have had war that the civilian casualty ratio is around 50% to 90%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Edit: Apparently the 90% figure is a myth. According to the wiki it's much more likely to be 50% to 60%.
Maybe we could try not doing that
How? Armed conflicts sometimes happen, and I've yet to see a working plan which doesn't endanger any civilians.
Good point. Let's just not do war altogether
Well what are you going to do when some murderous prick like Putin or indeed Trump comes knocking? Give up?
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That sounds like loser talk
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