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Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker
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They are fascists. This isn't what makes them fascists. This is what makes them murderers. So they are pedophiles who enjoy fascism and murder.
Distinction without a difference. Whom does it serve to not call them fascism or anything they do? Oh, the government are murderers, never mind
Nobody wasn't calling them fascists. They said that the act of high seas murder was not, by definition, fascist. Fascism is what they are doing domestically.
Summary: they are fascists but attacking fishing boats with fighter jets is outside of that and also wrong.
I know but why not call their actions fascist? They're doing it because they're fascists. It's not a coincidence. Who benefits from us discussing the finer details of when a murder is fascist or fascist-adjacent or only Dr murderer is the fascist but the action isn't... Like, why?
Because words mean things. Blowing up those boats is terrible, probably even terrorism, but just being awful behavior doesn't make it fascist. They're doing lots of fascist shit, and those things should be called out as such and need to be dealt with by the American people. Terroristic, colonial crimes against humanity are separate and need to be dealt with by the international courts. Details matter. Don't dumb down the situation. Don't dumb down yourself. Everything being simplified and made digestible and minimalized to spoon-feed the stupid fucking masses is what got us here. It's fucking lazy. And look, I shouldn't blow up on you like that, but I'm frustrated. I grew up watching the same fucking people who put these fascists in power make fun of Trump for being an obvious idiot, a sleaze, and not as rich as he claimed to be. Those people got lazy as they got old, and I guess the leaded gas had put enough holes in their brains that they started to believe the fucking liars. And let worse and worse people gain power over things like their kids education so that they could teach them "the answers" instead of how to find answers. So now I'm ranting, and there's no chance you'll bother reading all this. Your previous comments tell me that. I'm still gonna hit send, so here you go.
Well if words don't mean anything, why use them?
Did you know qevlarr is a murderer? By which I mean they are a user on lemmy, of course.