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[–] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)
  1. This is a claim he made in the heat of ACAB. I won't believe he was wrong for saying it, just angry, rightfully so. So many innocent black people, latinos and more have suffered because of your cops. It's the type of claim you know deep down is exageratted, but you still make it out of anger and disappointment. Your cops are still bastards, they are helping ICE. I don't give a fuck if outlandish claims like that are made about them. You are 100% a MAGA who says "ACAB?? 'All Cops Are Bastards'?! Fuck you! There are a lot of good cops!" Like shut the fuck up, you Nazi scum piece of shit.

  2. Putin hates NATO, and a lot of the world is starting to do the same, because it's literally a form of American imperialism. What was the percentage again? Like 60% or so of NATO's power comes from the USA? Without the USA, NATO is kind of weak and a joke, so. Putin's main goal is to destroy you from within, like multiple Russian Generals from the Cold War would say, "We do not have to invade the United States, we will make it ours from within." Nikita Khrushchev. NATO is one of many factors, so, Hasan is not wrong, there's just a lot more to talk about that than just blaming NATO.

  3. He never denied the shortages didn't exist, he's criticizing USA propaganda, which constantly paints countries like Cuba and Venezuela as failures, but then again, the USA had a lot of influence on that. You crippled their ability to trade so you could blame socialism years down the line, as you always do. You meddle with communists and socialists to make it harder for them to thrive, and then use them as "examples" of what never to be once they inevitably fail thanks to you. This is again another of his critiques of American imperialism you are trying to simplify because you are a MAGA who wants to keep believing in American propaganda.

  4. Why the fuck do you support Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 even if he used a legal tool to do it? What's next? You will hate Hasan for being against child labor? All because "people are living longer, and we capitalist don't wanna give them more money, so, we should just make them work for longer"? I don't give a shit if Macron used Article 49.3, to do corruption and harm to people is so easy when they wrote the rules themselves.

  5. He is not wrong. I am the child of two baby boomer couples who were small businesses owners. One of them had the biggest house in my city at the time, it's a mansion. They did so by exploiting the working class. Pay the minimum wage, take advantage of uneducated people, and so on. They all believe billionaires are okay to exist, they see themselves as part of the elite, even when they are so far from it. This is something I see on almost every small business owner. They think they are the shit, and they treat poorer people like shit. Not as bad as the top 1%, for sure, but still, as he said, they are "Petite/Light Bourgeoisie". I am sure you yourself are one too, judging by the way you treat people online. You told me you don't give a fuck about reading people's thoughts, that is something so 'bourgeoisesque' to do, to treat those "below you" like vermin or less. You fucking moron. And you are probably not even a business owner, just a middle class fatass who will never know what is it like to live in actual poverty.

  6. Again, too much hope on humanity. I too used to think Japanese were better people than some would say, very respectful, very responsible, but well, it turns out even Japanese are massive pieces of shit. I won't blame Hasan for this one, he probably loves anime too much, he was blinded. This is again something that should make you angry toward the Japanese government for influencing that attitude, not Hasan. But you are right here, Japanese people are fucking garbage, just like Americans. They are very similar in their xenophobia.

  7. He was not wrong. Corporations did raise their prices to make more money our of pure greed, not because people were receiving a stimulus. It's still crazy you rather defend a world where everything gets more expensive, but minimum wages stay the exact same.

  8. And he did that because the money to pay people what they are worth and produce, supply the demand, is there, but the rich rather you starve and die than give you more money. So yes, it is manufactured, and for some reason you are defending the rich, you have to be a MAGA serf.

  9. Again, too much hope of humanity. He thought America would learn to not repeat the same mistake of electing Trump or republicans again, but yeah, he was wrong, Americans are actually that fucking stupid and evil. It is what it is, I won't blame him nor stop watching him just because he had too much hope for you, if anything, errors like these are what make me like him even more. He still believes in people, you don't, and I rather live in a world with people like Hasan than you, because they are more humane.

  10. It is not a conspiracy. You profit so much off death and destruiction, and then rebuiilding what you destroyed. Just because your plans get foiled sometimes, like in Vietnam, the Korean Wars, Fidel Castro (Bay of the Pigs), Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the Taliban, doesn't means you are putting the defense contractors' interests aside, you are simply procrastinating them and taking a breath before your next punch. That's how imperialists work, they know everything will not always go as flawless as they wish, sometimes they will fail, but none of that will stop them. You spent over 24 trillion USD in the military over the past decade. With only 10% of that budget, we could solve World Hunger for a decade too, according to plenty of sources that say we only need 93 billion USD a year to do that.

But no, instead, these are the numbers and the world you are fighting for:

During Covid:

  • US - 3,596 deaths per million with a population size of 335 million.
  • Mexico - 2,605 deaths per million with a population size of 130 million.
  • China - 85 deaths per million with a population size of 1.42 billion, 4x times the US', which should’ve been harder to administrate or manage, but they did it efficiently anyway.

Which seems more responsible there? And by A LOT.

Every year, to general conflict (rates per 100,000 inhabitants):

  • US - 20,000± people - rate of 5.7 due to its population size.
  • Mexico - 30,000± people - rate of 24.85.
  • China - 7,157 people - rate of 0.502, incredibly impressive for a country 4x times the size in population.
  • UK - 684 people - rate of 1.14.
  • Canada - 874 people - rate of 2.27.
  • My favorite, this one always makes Americans go “no way that’s true. But the way they treat gays over there!!!” Saudi Arabia - 285 people - rate of 0.795.
  • Qatar - 2 people - rate of 0.074

Which are safer? Qatar, China and Saudi Arabia.

Now, according to World Population Review, Our World Data, the UN and more regarding wealth inequality, the higher the number, the worse (Gini coefficient, 0 would mean everyone has the exact same amount of cash, so, expect it to be a minimum of 20~):

  • South Africa - 63.0
  • Brazil - 51.6
  • Zimbabwe - 50.3
  • Mexico - 43.5
  • US - 41.8
  • China - 35.7
  • UK - 32.4
  • Japan - 32.3
  • Sweden - 31.6
  • Iraq, bro - 29.8
  • Norway - 26.9
  • United Arab Emirates - 26.4
  • India - 25.5
  • Slovakia, the lowest, most “communist one” as Americans say - 24.1 Couldn’t find the Gini for Saudi Arabia, but I am sure it’s similar to its neighbors, which dingle around the mid 20s or low 30s.

Now look at these 12 war crimes the USA has done:

  • Iran 1953 - CIA + MI6 overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh after he nationalized oil.
  • Guatemala 1954 - CIA toppled President Jacobo Árbenz after he pushed land reforms that were hated by U.S. corporations (United Fruit Company).
  • Congo 1960 - The U.S. indirectly supported the removal and 86 of Patrice Lumumba and backed Mobutu’s dictatorship.
  • South Vietnam 1963 - CIA green-lit the coup that ousted and 86 Ngo Dinh Diem.
  • Brazil 1964 - CIA supported the right-wing military junta that removed President João Goulart.
  • Chile 1970 - CIA spent millions trying to block Allende’s election, then supported the military coup that put Pinochet in power.
  • Nicaragua 1980 - U.S. illegally funded the Contras to destabilize the Sandinista government.
  • Afghanistan 1979 - U.S. funded and armed the mujahideen to bleed the Soviets, destabilizing the region for decades (and indirectly creating conditions for the Taliban).
  • Iraq 2003 - Full-scale invasion removing Saddam Hussein, plunging country into chaos and sectarian war.
  • Lybia 2011 - NATO intervention helped topple Gaddafi, leading to civil war, militias, and slave markets.
  • Honduras 2009 - Not a CIA coup, but U.S. tacitly supported the military-backed ouster of President Zelaya by legitimizing the new government.
  • Syria 2011 - CIA’s “Timber Sycamore” program armed various rebel factions, worsening the civil war.

Am I still supposed to believe America is good? If your goal is to make me despise it, I guess you are doing a good job then. Hasan is the one who wants these numbers to change for the better, you, on the other hand, you want them to keep getting worse. Hence the reason why you attack people like Hasan. You hate humanity, bro, probably because you are incredibly frustrated and never achieved your dreams, let alone a quarter of what the average baby boomer had at your age. It's alright, dude. People like you always pay back with their silent misery. If your life was that good, you'd not be here behaving like a 12 year old in the first place.