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[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

30 upvotes: Doves win political power, surrender, then say “see, interventionism can never work!”

Genuinely flat-earth levels of delusion to think this is how the US operates. A take so ignorant it stops being annoying and starts being funny.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

baby's first geopolitical narrative

[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess it's inevitable people will resort to the fifth column excuse whenever an imperial power loses a few wars in a row.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Name more iconic duo than fascists and stab-in-the-back myth.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, you're just not considering all the recourse extraction and juicy private contracts. It's not a matter of 'doves' giving up. The market-metabolism of empire necessitates moving on to fresh targets. The social organism we call the United States depends on maximizing entropy abroad. Let fly the depleted-uranium bullets in Europe!

i gave them something with a tad more explanatory capacity, lets see if they have more of a response then downvoting...

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[user was banned for this comment] probably

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

still up, for the time being. I'll poke them again in a bit and see what happens 🔬

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

lol, new comment is already hidden unless you click through to the permalink

reddit is silly

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

They’re right. We must kick Joe “Tree Hugger” Biden out the office. He’s too weak to win wars. Get back Hillary.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Give a liberal a liberal from another state to compete against and watch them turn into Lord Gerald Nigelhouse, Baron of Headington and Her Majesty's Royal Advisor on the Empire.

And if the others do not see themselves as liberals? Good. You now have a civilization vs barbarism argument on your hands, using morality to justify war.