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[–] kablez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah I'm 100% for consequences and proportionate punishment for people who hurt others, especially those who commit genocide.

Part of the conservative counter culture is to not only minimalise and invalidate accounts of wrong doing, but to confuse the situation so much that consequences can never reach the offenders. That's why I think it's important to specifically de-couple nationality from accusations of wrong doing.

It'll be the same in a few years when the equivalent of Nuremberg Trials happens for American fascists. We should not assume everyone in the United States was a MAGA, but there must be consequences for that group and they must fit the [international] crime.