Nobody feels the NEED to kneel. There's a huge difference there.
Is someone seriously trying to defend the USA and cast it as the good guys? Have you been asleep since 9/11? Torture, wars of aggression, bombing the piss out of neutral countries? Did you miss all that? Heck, it didn't start on 9/11.
The United States not only overthrew governments (sometimes democratically elected ones) - or attempted to - in Albania, Ghana, Guatemala, Greece, Cuba, Chile, Iran, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Vietnam, Argentina, and Grenada. It also supported violently illiberal forces, from Islamist mujahideen in Afghanistan-Pakistan and President Hosni Mubarak's oppressive state in Egypt to the Indonesian Suharto regime and its death squads. A mainstay of U.S. hegemony in the Persian Gulf is its partnership with Saudi Arabia, an absolutist state that beheads apostates and survives by making concessions to Wahhabi theocrats. It is currently waging a brutal campaign against rebels in Yemen that, according to Amnesty International, includes attacks that are "indiscriminate, disproportionate or directed against civilians and civilian objects, including funeral gatherings, schools, markets, residential areas and civilian boats." NATO allies on the European continent for decades included authoritarian Portugal and Greece. West Germany, the poster child of the liberal order, did not have elections during its first four years, and its proud social democracy retained officials who had been security elites in the Third Reich. Former Nazi mandarins stuffed the highest levels of government, including the Foreign Office and the Interior and Justice Ministries. Several former Nazi generals would later become senior commanders in the Bundeswehr.
China did what, had a few brief border skirmishes with its neighbors? The amount of harm isn't even comparable. Unless you work for the CIA, you've got far less to fear from a distant government uninterested in your life than a government right next to you that has proven its hostility and moral bankruptcy again and again.
The intelligence community is trying to start a new Cold War with Russia. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. Reference:
"This is like a spy novel." There is a ton of evidence that FBI and DoJ officials went rogue and started using opposition research from the Clinton campaign (which involved speaking with Russians no less) and other evidence in order to meddle in the election. Remember when Rosenstein threatened the Congressional oversight committee because they're doing their job of oversight? Stunning.
Reminder: 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers and Juanita Broaddrick tried "breaking their silence" about Bill Clinton. TIME did not name these brave women "Person of the Year". Instead, Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media attacked and victim shamed them. #MeToo
He got a blowjob from an underling during work hours inside a public government office. How do you not get fired and/or prosecuted for that? Everyone else would have. What the hell?
The US government is in a position to do me far more harm. That's not even a joke. The Chinese government doesn't bomb people and invade nations. Their police don't murder POC on the streets. Nobody kneels during the Chinese national anthem. All of these happen in America.
So we are just making stuff up now? I guess you're with the New York Times - you're in good company.
"[Trump] is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process."
Ready for Goldberg's reply? Sit back:
"He would certainly like to."
Seriously - that was her reply.
The newswoman.
That gets you a job at The New York Times.
I guess we are also ignoring the Leftists going around beating the shit out of people too? Cool.
That's another thing that's so weird about A-ntifa: twenty years ago, when they still called themselves the 'Black Bloc', they were the ones out protesting globalization. Does anybody else remember the 'Battle of Seattle' in 1999, when they were protesting the WTO? I do. Back then, they were actually fighting the system; now they just fight their fellow citizens for the system. Don't they realize what tools they are? Have they forgotten their own damn history?
What the...me? Who on Earth are you talking to? You've got some conversation going on in your head and I wasn't there for my half.
You don't attack powerless people who society shits on. You attack the powerful. End of story. If you're attacking the little people, you went wrong somewhere.
Both shut down the speech of everyone they don't like. Not much good when you're sitting in a gulag while your kids are being educated for free that far left principles are The Only Truth.
"We cast aside our three core ideas - Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism - and that was a mistake. We were taught Marxist revolutionary ideas from 1949 to 1978. We spent thirty years on what we now know was a disaster."
-- Zhu Zhongming, Shanghai accountant
That's not the point, the point is that when Obama did it, there was no criticism, or critics were shouted down as racist. Now suddenly the same actions that were no big deal are a huge problem. It's good to point this out as often as possible.
You inverted the usual "comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable" narrative. Your post was all about shitting on society's dregs, people who got the short end of the stick, people who are already miserable. Instead, you should be helping to uplift them. Attack the powerful, not the powerless. Speak the truth to them instead.
Thinnest lightest? Really? I don't remember any demand for that. It was just phone companies having dick measuring contests, introducing features that look good on bullet points. Basically serving the needs of the marketing department, not the needs of the end user.
Put your money where your mouth is: employ these guideilnes on the next Trump-bashing piece.
Ah, I'm just kidding - I know that will never happen. "Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires, capabilities or actions of some demographic group" for one is a non-starter. Where would we be without sneering at the unwashed masses?
Wrong. Lots of women unfortunately sympathize with their rapists.
Listen carefully: there can be no consent between a man in the power structure and a woman below him. NONE. Ever. It is always rape.
When you have the President of the United States on one hand, the most powerful man in the world, and on the other a lowly intern, you can't get a greater power differential than that. Bill Clinton is a rapist.
So, I'm curious: who actually asked for help? Nobody? A bunch of white people just decided they were going to invade a black people country?
Any massacre in Mogadishu was the fault of those who spent the night attacking the troops and the efforts to withdraw.
Uniformed US soldiers murdered thousands of civilians. This is a fact. None of the victims of the Mogadishu Massacre were uniformed soldiers. Why do you think the world knows it as the Mogadishu Massacre?
You come off sounding like an apologist for white people murdering blacks for their own good. Without asking blacks what their own good was, or even thinking to ask. Good job, Bull Connor.
Trump hired a prostitute. Bill Clinton raped a powerless intern in the Oval Office. If you can't see a wide, yawning gulf between the two, that's on you. There can be no consent between a powerful man and a woman underneath him. It is always rape.
The famine in Somalia was already over by the time the US troops arrived.
They proceeded to make things worse, interfered in tribal politics, and murdered dozens of elders in an airstrike. They then committed the Mogadishu Massacre, where they opened fire on civilians, killing ~5000 people in a single night of violence.
Did Somalians ask for this? Did America even bother to ask?
Totalitarian states often have very low crime rates. The criminals all have jobs or have been exiled. The only crimes are committed by regime officials, who are obviously not subject to their own repressive laws.
I accurately point out that leftists falsely claim sympathy with the little people despite ugly classist bigotry calling them deplorable. What do I get in response? A demand to silence myself, followed by calling me deplorable. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
And if people would stop showering us with hate, we might listen to you for once and drop the siege mentality. But I don't see it happening. Too many people find it wonderfully fulfilling to hate us.
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Nobody feels the NEED to kneel. There's a huge difference there.
Is someone seriously trying to defend the USA and cast it as the good guys? Have you been asleep since 9/11? Torture, wars of aggression, bombing the piss out of neutral countries? Did you miss all that? Heck, it didn't start on 9/11.
The United States not only overthrew governments (sometimes democratically elected ones) - or attempted to - in Albania, Ghana, Guatemala, Greece, Cuba, Chile, Iran, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Vietnam, Argentina, and Grenada. It also supported violently illiberal forces, from Islamist mujahideen in Afghanistan-Pakistan and President Hosni Mubarak's oppressive state in Egypt to the Indonesian Suharto regime and its death squads. A mainstay of U.S. hegemony in the Persian Gulf is its partnership with Saudi Arabia, an absolutist state that beheads apostates and survives by making concessions to Wahhabi theocrats. It is currently waging a brutal campaign against rebels in Yemen that, according to Amnesty International, includes attacks that are "indiscriminate, disproportionate or directed against civilians and civilian objects, including funeral gatherings, schools, markets, residential areas and civilian boats." NATO allies on the European continent for decades included authoritarian Portugal and Greece. West Germany, the poster child of the liberal order, did not have elections during its first four years, and its proud social democracy retained officials who had been security elites in the Third Reich. Former Nazi mandarins stuffed the highest levels of government, including the Foreign Office and the Interior and Justice Ministries. Several former Nazi generals would later become senior commanders in the Bundeswehr.
China did what, had a few brief border skirmishes with its neighbors? The amount of harm isn't even comparable. Unless you work for the CIA, you've got far less to fear from a distant government uninterested in your life than a government right next to you that has proven its hostility and moral bankruptcy again and again.
Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility'
The intelligence community is trying to start a new Cold War with Russia. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. Reference: "This is like a spy novel." There is a ton of evidence that FBI and DoJ officials went rogue and started using opposition research from the Clinton campaign (which involved speaking with Russians no less) and other evidence in order to meddle in the election. Remember when Rosenstein threatened the Congressional oversight committee because they're doing their job of oversight? Stunning.
EXCEPT if it's Bill Clinton. Then, Monica Lewinsky was able to consent, despite what you just said about power differentials. That's right, the President of the USA, the most powerful man in the world, and an intern. There could not be a greater power disparity.
Reminder: 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers and Juanita Broaddrick tried "breaking their silence" about Bill Clinton. TIME did not name these brave women "Person of the Year". Instead, Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media attacked and victim shamed them. #MeToo
He got a blowjob from an underling during work hours inside a public government office. How do you not get fired and/or prosecuted for that? Everyone else would have. What the hell?
Why? The Chinese government is not in a position to do you harm. The US government certainly is.
There are two kinds of fascists, fascists and anti-fascists.
The US government is in a position to do me far more harm. That's not even a joke. The Chinese government doesn't bomb people and invade nations. Their police don't murder POC on the streets. Nobody kneels during the Chinese national anthem. All of these happen in America.
So...it's totally OK to use SJW tactics right up until the point until they get turned against you - and then suddenly they're not OK. How typical.
Society stopped shitting on geeks a long time ago.
LOL remember 2014? Gamergate? Remember the catchphrase? "It's time to go back to bullying geeks again."
The smoking gun evidence.
I guess we are also ignoring the Leftists going around beating the shit out of people too? Cool.
That's another thing that's so weird about A-ntifa: twenty years ago, when they still called themselves the 'Black Bloc', they were the ones out protesting globalization. Does anybody else remember the 'Battle of Seattle' in 1999, when they were protesting the WTO? I do. Back then, they were actually fighting the system; now they just fight their fellow citizens for the system. Don't they realize what tools they are? Have they forgotten their own damn history?
What the...me? Who on Earth are you talking to? You've got some conversation going on in your head and I wasn't there for my half.
You don't attack powerless people who society shits on. You attack the powerful. End of story. If you're attacking the little people, you went wrong somewhere.
Both shut down the speech of everyone they don't like. Not much good when you're sitting in a gulag while your kids are being educated for free that far left principles are The Only Truth.
"We cast aside our three core ideas - Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism - and that was a mistake. We were taught Marxist revolutionary ideas from 1949 to 1978. We spent thirty years on what we now know was a disaster."
-- Zhu Zhongming, Shanghai accountant
That's not the point, the point is that when Obama did it, there was no criticism, or critics were shouted down as racist. Now suddenly the same actions that were no big deal are a huge problem. It's good to point this out as often as possible.
Eh, that's pretty far-fetched. I'm not buying it.
You inverted the usual "comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable" narrative. Your post was all about shitting on society's dregs, people who got the short end of the stick, people who are already miserable. Instead, you should be helping to uplift them. Attack the powerful, not the powerless. Speak the truth to them instead.
Thinnest lightest? Really? I don't remember any demand for that. It was just phone companies having dick measuring contests, introducing features that look good on bullet points. Basically serving the needs of the marketing department, not the needs of the end user.
Afflict the afflicted, comfort the comfortable. Speak truth to the powerless!
What could the Chinese possibly do to me? I'm serious. Let's say they know everything I ever do online. How could they possibly harm me?
On the other hand the US government is far more frightening and well able to do me harm.
Put your money where your mouth is: employ these guideilnes on the next Trump-bashing piece.
Ah, I'm just kidding - I know that will never happen. "Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires, capabilities or actions of some demographic group" for one is a non-starter. Where would we be without sneering at the unwashed masses?
Loving one's country is rabid nationalism now? Well I never.
Number of wars started by Trump: 0. How many did Obama start? Was it more than seven?
Wrong. Lots of women unfortunately sympathize with their rapists.
Listen carefully: there can be no consent between a man in the power structure and a woman below him. NONE. Ever. It is always rape.
When you have the President of the United States on one hand, the most powerful man in the world, and on the other a lowly intern, you can't get a greater power differential than that. Bill Clinton is a rapist.
So, I'm curious: who actually asked for help? Nobody? A bunch of white people just decided they were going to invade a black people country?
Any massacre in Mogadishu was the fault of those who spent the night attacking the troops and the efforts to withdraw.
Uniformed US soldiers murdered thousands of civilians. This is a fact. None of the victims of the Mogadishu Massacre were uniformed soldiers. Why do you think the world knows it as the Mogadishu Massacre?
You come off sounding like an apologist for white people murdering blacks for their own good. Without asking blacks what their own good was, or even thinking to ask. Good job, Bull Connor.
Trump hired a prostitute. Bill Clinton raped a powerless intern in the Oval Office. If you can't see a wide, yawning gulf between the two, that's on you. There can be no consent between a powerful man and a woman underneath him. It is always rape.
The famine in Somalia was already over by the time the US troops arrived.
They proceeded to make things worse, interfered in tribal politics, and murdered dozens of elders in an airstrike. They then committed the Mogadishu Massacre, where they opened fire on civilians, killing ~5000 people in a single night of violence.
Did Somalians ask for this? Did America even bother to ask?
Totalitarian states often have very low crime rates. The criminals all have jobs or have been exiled. The only crimes are committed by regime officials, who are obviously not subject to their own repressive laws.
I accurately point out that leftists falsely claim sympathy with the little people despite ugly classist bigotry calling them deplorable. What do I get in response? A demand to silence myself, followed by calling me deplorable. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
And if people would stop showering us with hate, we might listen to you for once and drop the siege mentality. But I don't see it happening. Too many people find it wonderfully fulfilling to hate us.