this guy. what a big ol' war criminal

"Your the kind of guy I'd like to have in a foxhole with me"
- W talking to Putin, Nov 13, 2001

and concentration camps and disinformation campaigns and classified information given to Russian agents in the Oval Office and incitement of an insurrection to prevent the election results from being processed

Stopheles, do you mean the Sussman trial?

Uighur concentration camps, or kids in cages?

Our history is hidden from us, it's very comforting to leave the veil up.

J6 was worst than Pearl Harbor.

the bipartisan concentration camps that Obama built and that Trump and Biden have continued? who should I vote for if I don't like those?

lol at everything else

Once again to Crackersmack, ashtar, SolRo, et al.

We know that George W. was bad. I protested the Iraq war within days of it starting. I wanted to know how much damage was being done in "shock and awe" and I wasn't told at the time, when I was a teenager. I wrote essays in my classes describing how I believed the entire war was built on disinformation. it was a time that made me more politically aware and active ever since.

The Iraq war took place in an era of the U.S. when -some- information freedom was present, but the internet was poorly developed still then, and the ability and technology for journalists to expose what the US was doing -- which was a CONTINUATION of decades of acts of war that are criminal and deserve punishment, see: secret bombings of Laos during the Vietnam war that nobody learned about, literally called the "Secret War", all the way to Talon-Anvil whatever acts which STILL NEED TO BE PROSECUTED, and so on.

The thing is, now we are finally possibly entering an era of greater accountability, dependent on the global consciousness. This is why the global attention on Ukraine overwhelmingly supports Ukraine. This is why it should be, in theory, harder for the US paramilitary complex to continue to commit horrible acts in the name of profiteering and a religious-paramilitary white male culture that needs still to die down further in the name of equality.

The U.S. is /entering/ this era, not yet fully in it, I agree, and you constantly emphasize. Putin's Russia is far behind -- their information availability is much more similar to ours when George W. was president. The war he is starting and the disinformation he spreads internally is exactly the same as our inability to know exactly what reasons were behind that war, such as the complete absence of actual proof of W.M.D.s in Iraq and so on.

only /since/ that war, independent, and capable journalism groups -- yes I am referring to Al Jazeera and so on -- have been regularly trying -- and dying in the name of exposing any acts that global power commit of evil in the middle east. Through the efforts of public information, it could be argued that the 'hot' phase of conflicts in that region may finally be ebbing, somewhat -- were it not for ongoing bullshit being completed by the countries still living in this 'dark' era of disinformation and control, Russia, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and so on.

Nobody is going to normalize or accept that Russia's actions in Ukraine were justified -- more and more obviously they were just Putin's dying last gasp for a legacy and will lead to utter failure and collapse of their current power structures and other impacts. Nobody is going to completely heed your B.S. whataboutism cries at all times either, because of real changes that we are just beginning, and should continue -- and to do so, we just have to keep fighting the impassiveness, disinformation and bullshit that will only force steps backwards. The only place we agree is that more political action is needed on a grassroots level and constant government involvement, to undo say the current fiasco of a filibuster-dominated senate or to change the trend of legislating from the conservative-dominated benches.

It'd be nice if you'd stop constantly posting your 50-cents-per-rant and retort bullshit that is obviously designed to continue to cast doubt on the progress democracy could take, so that the most vulnerable (depressed, poor middle-americans) can see that their beliefs in Trumpism, theocracies and rapetown-russia are a step backward, not forward.

Go ahead, hit back with the usual whataboutism--democrats are just legislating payraises, tax breaks, lobbyists blahblah -- I look forward to seeing another round of the B.S. -- and btw, sorry that your crypto accounts are now total garbage.

I like your new flavor of jingoism where Americans are now “enlightened” after killing millions in the last couple decades and holding no one accountable for their crimes.

Really digging the enlightened “light” vs barbaric “dark” theme you’ve established. Very nice echos of the western colonial past, to manifest destiny and the white mans burden.

With ideological superiority like that I bet you could justify another couple decades of mass murder of ‘the other’ in ‘the dark lands’.

Less "NATO-jingoist" or "US-jingoist," more "civilized democracy-jingoist" maybe, because to claim that the U.S. is somehow unique is obviously ignoring not just hundreds of years of American slavery and abuse but ignores the actions of over half a dozen colonial European countries, who have literally colonized every single country in the world before except five. Whataboutism doesn't really work when there is literally a global "evil," EXCEPT for a hypothetical future which might not be evil.

Yes, it's still a good-evil dichotomy, but the ideal here is change and the direction of change that I can tell plainly Russia hasn't been embracing and has now officially stepped back decades from, and the change that has been comparatively more embraced by say Germany, the government of Canada, NZ, etc, almost all of whom are actively defending Ukraine, and preventing it from being completely thrown under Russia's foot.

If you want to call that a "typical" "American" viewpoint, you're basically not reading anything I've written, which would have to be a disability you have if you continue to support Nazi Russia's efforts here.

I know you love your little indoctrinated notion of “civilized democracy” but how many hundreds of thousands, millions even, have your countries killed in circuitous ways to “spread freedom” via famine-inducing sanactions, destabilizing “regime change”, undemocratic CIA funded violent “peoples revolutions” and the like? I bet you’ve gone past the real nazis at this point.

That’s what’s sad about you American leftists. When it’s peaceful you can recognize the evils of the American government. But as soon as there’s any friction you start worshiping State Department press releases like Jesus himself preached them.

Also; “ to claim that the U.S. is somehow unique is obviously ignoring not just hundreds of years of American slavery and abuse but ignores the actions of over half a dozen colonial European countries”

Ironically all are now NATO members lead by America. Funny coincidence.

"As of September 2020, six corporations control 90 per cent of media outlets in the U.S.: AT&T, CBS, Comcast, Disney, News Corp and Viacom."

The idea that just because we don't have (overt) state censorship that our information ecology is "free" is very silly.

Remember, can’t prosecute an American president for war crimes because that might take away the option for a future American president to commit war crimes.

It might even open the flood gates to American soldiers getting prosecuted for war crimes…really is a slippery slope.

"Himbo" is one of the worst flavors of mass murderer.