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minus-squareindex@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 months ago Opposition leaders and dissidents do not get regularly assassinated by the government in the US for starters. Because there’s no need to do it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·8 months agoThe US has done some fucked up shit, no doubt, but that is about messing with foreign countries and has nothing to do with what we’re talking about here: The US internally disappearing and/or killing anyone who speaks out against it.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoNice non-sequitur but that doesn’t excuse anyone of anything.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoI refer you to my previous comment.
minus-squarePipoca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoIf that’s something that regularly happens in the US, do you have any examples from the last decade, instead of three examples from 55-60 years ago?
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoOk, 60+ year old examples aside, how does any of that excuse anything anyone else does? It fucking doesn’t!
Because there’s no need to do it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
The US has done some fucked up shit, no doubt, but that is about messing with foreign countries and has nothing to do with what we’re talking about here: The US internally disappearing and/or killing anyone who speaks out against it.
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Nice non-sequitur but that doesn’t excuse anyone of anything.
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I refer you to my previous comment.
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If that’s something that regularly happens in the US, do you have any examples from the last decade, instead of three examples from 55-60 years ago?
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Ok, 60+ year old examples aside, how does any of that excuse anything anyone else does?
It fucking doesn’t!
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