How come you only get mad when the people being ravaged by war are white?

  • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    To be entirely fair, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia should be crossed from the top list, as the wars sparked large scale protests and anti war movements. Not that the list would be any less infuriating.

  • Vncredleader
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    3 years ago

    God that shit bugs me. It is an event for them, a damn show to (pardon my use of the term) virtue signal. War is consumption of media, and this is merch. Like so many churches here, in part naturally due to the big Ukrainian population, are flying Ukraine flags, but when Armenia another technically white country, of christians no less, who actually are historically oppressed for their faith got invaded, they said NOTHING

    Armenia got a region annexed and people beheaded and none of these fuckers even pretended to care

    • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      The war and the reaction to it here in the states has really laid bare to me just how sheeplike American liberals are. They uncritically believe whatever CNN and the NYT tell them, no exceptions. "Sheeple" is a fash meme but goddamn if it doesn't describe libs to a t

  • dead [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This meme is inaccurate because liberals are not blind to the bombings conducted by the US; liberals support those bombings conducted by the US.

  • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Should say I reappropriated this from r/sino, one of the only good subreddits

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    As jingoistic as the NFL is I will not be surprised to see Ukraine flag decals placed next the US flag on the back of helmets next season.

    • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Funny you mention this because I was literally just thinking that flying a Ukraine flag is basically as bad as flying a US flag at this point. NFL jumping on the bandwagon wouldn't surprise me in the least

  • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    In my circle of acquaintances people protested most of these wars/bombings, except maybe Syria because Assad is fucking trash. I'm glad so many people see how the current war in Ukraine is a bad thing which has people suffering.