NonCredibleDefense

Lol, well I certainly prefer a feisty real human to Claude's obsequiousness, although I'm not entirely convinced you actually did but I'll argue with you whether generated by a human or a bot so it is neither here nor there.

Quote: "Accountability isn't separate from atrocities, it determines whether they stop or continue unabated" unquote

So from where I'm sitting the constraints on the Tangerine Tyrant seem to be trivial and of little consequence, the few times he's been legally reined in he's quickly found a workaround or just straight up ignored the courts, and sure as hell none of the other supposed checks and balances are doing anything to stop the US sliding into fascism. I'd love to see your proof that he's been held accountable for well, ANYTHING. Epstein files showing he's a pedo rapist, nothing happened, loses sexual assault case - still hasn't paid the bill, blah blah no accountability. Or do you mean accountability for the senior leadership ? Hegseth hasn't even been charged with murder of those Caribbean sailors let alone held accountable for it.

This accountability seems to be rather foggy and mirage like. Sure as hell the atrocities haven't stopped so bottom line your accountability thesis doesn't seem to be showing much in the way of results - I think we can dismiss that argument.

" We'll look at Minab, since that seems to be something you like to talk about."

Yes the massacre of children does upset me, does it not upset you ?

"The details about that came from inside the house... US goverment officials leaked that to PBS and Bloomberg."

Bullshit. Show me the proof. The details hit non US publications like Al Jazeera and the Guardian DAYS before PBS and Bloomberg published anything that suggested the US was culpable, and the US govt is still denying it to this day - they walked out of the UN rather than look at the pictures of the little kids they killed.

quote "Whether China is acting within its own borders or without, it's still a boot crushing humans, and fuck you if you think otherwise, honestly" unquote

Nice attempt to misrepresent me - do I need to copy in quotes of the MULTIPLE times I said China was also evil ?

False dichotomy.

My position is that China and the US are both evil, in slightly different ways around the edges I'll grant, but in broad strokes, a pox on both of them.

You've done nothing to present a case that the US is not evil, you've just done some arm wavy whataboutisms and misdirections to try and distract from the point.

USA and China both evil, evil fraternal twins.

EDIT just noticed an opportunity for you to try the weasel words on for size, so to be clear PBS and Bloomberg reported the school got hit in roughly the same timeframe as the rest, what they did NOT do is lead the reporting on who was responsible. There's a world of difference between reporting civilian casualties and admitting it was a US bomb that killed them. That accusation was levelled by the foreign press first. Not that it really matters. The US is busily removing the freedom of the press and consolidating them all under dictator friendly oligarchs anyway.