• lumpenproletariat@quokk.au
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      12 hours ago

      What anyone thinks of Iran should pale in comparison to what they think of the US. Truly the most evil nation since Nazi Germany.

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            5 hours ago

            recency bias and the US outsized reputation makes it seem that I’m sure but lol if you think this is true

            we’re just more free to complain about it, probably not for much longer though

            so if you think it’s bad now buckle up and I say this as a generational casualty of US colonialism

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              Its not receny bias. The US didnt just turn evil in Jan 2025.

              How are are all those black prisoners working in privatised prisons doing by the way?

              China has 4 times the population as the US, yet the US still has the largest prison population on Earth.

              Slavery never ended in america.

              Land of the free my hole. Its literally the least free country on the planet.

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                who said anything about 2025? even if you want to peg the US evil starting with Nixon (which isn’t perfectly true as we were war profiteering in ww1/2) that’s recent, the US is a baby nation

                now you’re just throwing strawman arguments, I don’t support any of this shit the US is currently doing, it’s just stupid to think China hasn’t done worse in the last century, isn’t doing equally evil shit now

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          10 hours ago

          Both are bad, neither is worse than the US.

          Just going by invasions and regime changes alone the US takes the cake. That’s before you get into the spreading crack into black communities, chemical weapons on civilians, drone strikes on children, ecological destruction, genocide enabling, etc etc.

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            3 hours ago

            By numbers US is probably worse but the level of cruelty from Russia is unmatched outside of terrorist organizations

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              Would it really be tho?

              Like the US targets children and social gatherings to attack, tortures/rapes/murders innocent civilians in black sites, keeps a racial based underclass who they hook on drugs, violently assault from childhood, and lock up in record numbers to serve as legal slave labour. That’s pretty fucking cruel stuff.

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            10 hours ago

            i hate defending the US because it has had more direct bad impact on my life but by measure of lost life i’d still argue modern Russia is worse, and if we lump current China to not even that long ago China the numbers killed are not even close

            the scale of China’s population just blows it all out of proportion

            Nazi Germany wasn’t even the worst genocide of its time (what a putrid statement though true)