• _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    the United States has literally run a government funded school to teach right-wing authoritarians from Latin America how to do most of the things you just mentioned since 1946.

    https://www.grunge.com/338237/the-messed-up-history-of-the-school-of-the-americas/
    https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/28/opinion/school-of-the-dictators.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#

    you wanna try again?

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      I retract nothing, no matter how bad you can make the USA look by scrounging through centuries of documents, China is far worse now.

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        Centuries? The School of the Americas is open today, under the Trump admin, just as it was under the Biden admin. I don’t have to dig into history at all to discuss the varied atrocities the US is currently responsible for. This isn’t just history, it’s current affairs.

        The United States never has been the beacon of democracy and human rights it claims to be. And it sure as fuck was never the greatest country in the world. It’s an authoritarian cesspit run by corporations and fueled by the destruction of the environment and repression of smaller nations. There are dozens of countries that are better in any metric than the US, and China is the least of them. Even the UK does better than the US on every metric, including personal freedoms and right to privacy, and they’ve been run by a conservative government for decades.

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          And China is worse. Does that fact create some kind of problem for you? What aren’t you understanding?

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                says the person who literally just did that to me. I mean, I didn’t expect someone who hangs out with PugJesus to have a particularly well thought out argument on, well, anything, but I figured it would at least be a little more nuanced than “nah nah nah nah I can’t hear you”.

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                  Me and Pug regularly debate each other over disagreements, but one thing we both agree on is you fucking tankies love death, malice, and harming innocents.

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                    anyone left of Reagan is a tankie to you, so I won’t take offense at that. and nobody but the redpilled liberals over at MoG would believe you anyway. kinda ironic you talk about harming innocents though. the only time your kind cares about harming people is when you need votes to install some “lesser evil” as the figurehead president for the corporate oligarchy.

                    now why don’t you run back to the circlejerk like a good little boy.