• emizeko [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      praising of a genocidal dictator

      um nobody here is praising Joe Biden

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          11 months ago

          Who was Saddam's top allies during the Anfal campaign? Who gave him the gas? Like all neocon propagandists you're completely full of shit and yet you have the fuckin gall to open your filthy mouth and talk about genocidal dictator this and that after what the US did to Iraq, go fuck yourself shitlib

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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          11 months ago

          Right, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden's bullets, bombs, and depleted uranium thatve killed and displaced millions of Iraqi citizens are obviously much better.

          Isn't worshipping the lesser of two evils you liberal demons whole political ideology?

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            • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              The American autocrats you worship did an order of magnitude more evil than Sadam ever could.

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    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      You're really conflating seething hatred for America destroying a country with praise for Saddam Hussein? You reactionaries really can't see in anything beyond binary terms, can you?

      Saddam was fucking atrocious, but Iraq had working infrastructure under him (and his rise to power was aided by the US, so he was another pawn)

      They had that torn apart courtesy of America and are only just building back

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Sorry, we're all out of empathy here in the west. Try getting better bootstraps, thirdworlders.

      • jack55555@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        No I got no love for what the US and the allies did to Iraq, but what good is the the running water they had for the dead Kurds? From the start, my argument was they are better off now. Not that they are in paradise now.

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          Better off how? I pointed out their power grid is shit, their water table is contaminated, their buildings are bombed out, and everything but their oil has been privatized. Materially, they're fucked 3 ways to Sunday.

          If you're trying to still make digs about 'supporting Saddam killing Kurds' or w/e, I'll point out again that Saddam had the full backing of the US until Kuwait

          And you can get rid of people like him without invading the country and tearing it asunder

          • Ideology [she/her]
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            11 months ago

            It's almost like european powers pit ethnic groups against eachother to destabilize resource-rich regions.

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          11 months ago

          The Americans did not care about the people Saddam killed, and they killed millions more Iraqis then he ever did, you're a delusional racist and a war worshiping dipshit

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            It's true, the number of times i heard "glass the middle east" as a child comprehensively destroyed for me the idea of america as a force for anything good, and of americans as an aggregate being anything but a swarm of stupid bloodthirsty assholes once they get activated.

            I have hope for the individuals, but as a collective identity? No more American, the world does not need American.

        • Ideology [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          my argument was they are better off now.

          According to who?

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            Apparently this bozo's feelings

            Motherfucker is acting like all libs, like this is some marvel movie shit to them where after the US got Saddam, all the 'good guys' stood on top of a building in downtown Baghdad at night and said 'We have hope now' and then the credits rolled

            They forgot this is real life

            • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              The dead Kurds are better off now? Did you use a medium to survey them?

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            • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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              11 months ago

              The Kurds killed with chemical weapon technology supplied by the US? The killings that the US tried to frame Iran for? After which the US refused to sanction Iraq and continued to provide dual-use technology to Iraq.

              Those dead Kurds?

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          • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Jan 6th is America's Libya moment, and China should missile strike the US airforce and establish a no-fly zone over North America to insure the U.S. regime can't kill their insurgents

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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          11 months ago

          Then why are you fucking defending their presence there like five minutes ago?

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          They don't have functional infrastructure 20 years after the war and they did under Saddam. You really think the US was interested in anything besides cannibalizing the country for resources?

          edit: Oh yeah, they were interested in one other thing: handing lucrative ”rebuilding” contracts to corporations like Halliburton with direct ties to the Bush admin.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Hey quick question, what's worse: opposing the US empire, or being the US empire and giving Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to attack Iran?

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      11 months ago

      What the fuck? There isn’t a single word of praise for any thing or anyone in that comment are you this fucking delusional???

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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      11 months ago

      Now the praising of a genocidal

      What your feelings on the state of Israel?

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      "oh shid oh fuck I wandered outside my echo chamber oh shiiiiiiiii"

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      I'm with you. It's not fair to make judgments based on the material reality of people's lives. You clearly said the word dictator, which means bad guy from an exotic locale. You won the argument. What are all these commies talking about?

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      The Iraq war and the aftermath probably killed more Iraqis than Saddam's entire reign.

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    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Bitch, you're the one saying the genocidal slaughter and immiseration of millions of Iraqis is a good thing.