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Also "Anti-War protesters are protesting war? Who could have seen this coming?"

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's the war they choose to protest

Since its founding in 2002, Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK has protested against US intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, Columbia, and Honduras. Amongst anyone, she has the most receipts.

[–] TomboyShulk@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the amount of liberals who can't see how the US helped any of this happen is startling yet unsurprising. It really is blue MAGA. If Trump supported the Ukraine war like Biden, suddenly liberals would be anti war.

[–] tails__miles_prower@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

They are more mad that Trump didn't blow people up in Syria. Than they are with Biden doing nothing after SC ended roe v wade

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it'll be real funny if Trump starts a war over Taiwan if he wins in 2024 and then the sides reverse and in the megathreads we start taking analysis from liberal-oriented sources who only really oppose the war because it's the Republicans doing it, versus the conservative sources we used to have to rely on (as there's been virtually nobody liberal/left-leaning doing regular coverage and analysis) who are now dipshits fully in support of beating China

[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

having lived through Bush with Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama with Libya(mostly, cause of BENGOZZI. I was going to add Yemen, Syria and others but i don't think either side gave a fuck about those), and how Republicans and Democrats took turns there, that is definitely what would happen.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess the Nuland-Pyatt thing just kinda disappeared from lib brains

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Helps that it's not really widely reported on.

Like they'll report stuff without context.

Like how they're reporting the stuff happening in Africa. They'll just say that fighting is happening and dumb racist westerners will just be like "The stupid brown people are blowing each other up again."

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course it did

When your brain is fried by obsessively watching the 24 hour news networks, you don't remember five minutes ago, much less five years ago

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

liberals support american foreign interventions like charlie brown supports wanting to kick the football ![football-lucy](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d4d9bc85-4ca1-4caf-86e3-9408a40bd697.png "emoji football-lucy") ![football-charlie-brown](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ea174cbc-214e-4017-b4a6-effb985e3477.png "emoji football-charlie-brown")

"Okay it was bad and they lied to us the last 738 times, but THIS time though"

[–] DanComrd@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Every day our emoji game grows stronger

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

'actually it might be the only conflict in the entirety of the globe we had no hand in starting'

oh man talk about being close to the truth

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man who commits arson every day for the past 50 years claims he didn’t light this house on fire. Everyone believes him and is not interested in investigating.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

off-by-one error

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess blowing up an oil pipeline and hosting a sanctioned hit list is not direct involvement

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

the USA is also heavily involved in Ukraine's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) cycle, including supplying lots of satellite information

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we didn't have a direct involvement in starting.

"It was a bloodless coup (all pillow smotherings)"

[–] edge@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And maybe a building full of people set fire.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"we must support the current war no matter what" ![maybe-later-kiddo](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f778a7ca-0453-4eae-85d0-75814bb712f1.png "emoji maybe-later-kiddo")

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

![nineteeneightyfour](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9f89ac50-c091-4695-a2c4-2422e13cb2ff.png "emoji nineteeneightyfour") use your minimum wage checks to buy Ukrainian soldiers ammunition

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

how convenient that you choose to protest the most recent war ![smuglord](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/97a4a756-428f-4517-846a-1c810805ad28.png "emoji smuglord")

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

One of the few large modern conflicts we didn't have direct involvement in starting.

![picard](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b642072c-3cef-4832-b9a2-6991271b46e7.png "emoji picard")

You've gotta be kidding me

obviously what matters is who started it, grade school style. Why would anyone be concerned about the ongoing supply of the weapons doing half the killing? clearly what matters here is blame, not human lives. Fucking baby brains

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

its true, nobody protested the other wars