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«¿Cuántas naciones ha bombardeado USA desde 2001?» (Infografía: Al Jazeera)
they and UK are largely responsible for Irans current regime too.
This seems like a lot, I get it. But if you did a bar graph of US school shootings each of those years, it would seem like a lot less.
Who says republicans and democrats can’t agree?
Deep down, they are all american and share the same values: bomb brown people for profit.
I love bipartisanship
USA loves to bomb brown people. Got it 👍🏼.
should replace the "as American as apple pie" => "As American as bombing brown children"
And "as American as school shootings".
Democrats and republicans differ only in that the democrats don’t openly attack minorities in their own country.
So, about that:
Human rights watch letter to Joe biden
We write to express outrage over your administration’s expansion of the cruel and unnecessary immigration detention system. Last month, you signed a spending bill that provides historically high funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention - $3.4 billion in taxpayers’ money. Our organizations work with and advocate on behalf of people who have experienced immigration detention. They carry life long scars from the mistreatment and dehumanization they endured because of the United States’ reliance on detention, mostly through private prisons and county jails. Your administration is further entrenching this reliance, marking an utter betrayal of your campaign promises.
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The system your administration is expanding is riddled with abuse and impunity. Your senior officials have been aware of these significant human rights concerns since day one. ICE’s jails and prisons operate under insufficient standards with inspections that are notorious for covering up deficiencies. Inadequate medical care results in deaths; LGBTQ individuals in custody suffer homophobic and transphobic harassment and abuse; basic sanitation is often lacking; Black immigrants face unaffordable bonds and violence at disparately high rates; and ICE’s use of solitary confinement regularly meets the United Nations’ definition of torture.
Emphasis on openly. Obama admin continued or put in place the framework that Trump is now abusing. Biden continued it. They’re all rotten.
They weren't doing it secretly? I suppose they weren't bragging about torturing LGBT+ people either, but it's not like this stuff was unknown.
"They're all rotten" +1
Americans suck. Change my mind.
Yeah we're trash, tho there's a growing minority that also wants to end it.
Could be wrong but I’m fairly certain it also applies to the previous century.
In the previous century japan and germany were strong contenders. This time around it's closely contended by israel and russia as a distant third.
Wew lad this is some tankie shit. The US is fucked, but this is just a lol. The US destabilized yemen 🤣
Exhibit A as to why the term tankie is just libs complaining about how they're also pieces of shit
Is that all you have, wankie?
Listen, I’m no tankie but the thought that blowing up shit in a country wouldn’t destabilize that country is pretty laughable.
Considering what American became after 9/11, you’d think you’d have learned by now?
Listen, I’m no tankie but the thought that blowing up shit in a country wouldn’t destabilize that country is pretty laughable.
And if shit is already blowing up?
What is 'destabilizing' about supporting the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, for example? Walk me through it. I'm apparently a moron.
I guess the destabilising bit there would be supporting the Taliban in the first place.
The Taliban that fought the Mujahideen we supported in the 80s? The Taliban that wasn't even formed until after US interest in Afghanistan was long-over? The Taliban that started a literal civil war against the Mujahideen? Those Taliban?
The Taliban was a part of the Mujahideen.
The Taliban that wasn't even formed until after US interest in Afghanistan was long-over?
I know the US govt is incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions, but you can try to do better.
Yes, as we all know, the ongoing civil war in Afghanistan that Pakistan was deeply involved with was entirely peaceful before US intervention, Somalia and Syria (I note you use the anti-Assadist flag, lmao) likewise, we are definitely not present in Nigeria at request of the fucking Nigerian government, and our involvement post-2012 with Iraq was DEFINITELY not at request of the Iraqi government in dealing with fucking ISIS. Of course, I'm sure any number of people here would parrot critical support for ISIS under anti-imperialist grounds.
I also note that excluded is the assassination of Soleimani, presumably counted instead as an Iraqi strike since it was on Iraqi soil, even though it was an attack on a high-ranking Iranian military officer. I guess that would make Trump's warmongering too apparent.
But that might contradict the "BOTHSIDES" narrative, so we can't have any of those inconvenient facts.
Brother I like some of your posts but looking at this graph and being like “don’t give me your bOtHsIdEs, we HAD to!” is WILD.
We had to what, go in and fix all the destabilization, all the power-vacuum issues that WE caused with our meddling since WWII?
How can you look at what we have “had” to do and not think “wow, we’re the fucking bad guys”?
We are in an abusive relationship with the rest of the world. They gave us the benefit of the doubt, especially after “the Muslims” hit us that one time, but they can see our pattern for what it really is now. It’s time to come to terms with it, before we get any deeper in the shit.
Man, I am not saying we "Had to" do any of it, as I said, whether they're justified, I would say not in most cases. We did not have to do any of it, but I also won't pretend that running sorties on fucking ISIS to defend Iraq is the same as invading Iran - or pulling a drone strike on Iraqi soil without Iraqi permission, for that matter.
My point is that these largely aren't destabilization as the title suggests, and trying to pretend that they are is disingenuous at best and, considering how heavily it ignores the actual difference with Republican administrations, intentionally misleading at worst.
I wonder if US/Western interference in the region could have caused or worsened any of these civil wars...