barrbaric

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Where will "I'll attack them coz they attacked me coz I attacked them coz they attacked me..." finally lead to?

The end of Israel as an apartheid genocidal settler-colonial state. You can look to South Africa for an example.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The point is that Nagasaki and Hiroshima weren't exceptional, but rather typical of US bombing strategies against civilian populations that the US has continued to use into the modern day.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

IIRC the damage inflicted by the atomic bombings weren't especially noteworthy compared to the rest of the bombing campaign, and it was more a way to test out their new toys. If the nukes hadn't been used but conventional bombing had continued, it would likely have had a similar result. This video by Shaun lays out a pretty compelling case that the Japanese surrender was due to the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria.

This is all ignoring of course that despite the insistence of unconditional surrender, the Americans accepted surrender with conditions and allowed the emperor to continue to hold his titles anyway. There's definitely something to be said about taking maximalist positions just to make a point even when they don't actually care about several of the goals that make up those positions.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

This is apparently not the original version, but in the context in which it's used on hexbear, this is the full image:

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

President Xi, the people of Occupied Cascadia yearn for freedom, please send Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess "The US will very likely end the world in nuclear hellfire" doesn't roll of the tongue as well.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I think that's all-time numbers, though, so we're only in the lead because we had another 3-4 years before they existed. To avoid losing this lead in the future, we must continue to post more.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

He'd be allowed to do them, but his views are much closer to those of the republicans (opposing abortion, pro-racism, genocidally zionist, etc) than to a typical voter so he'd never want to. And that was before his brain started leaking out his ears.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't work. Just think about all the religious Trump supporters who think he's a "good christian man" in spite of his many obvious unchristian qualities. Their religion is downstream from their bigoted political views, and they don't care one bit about being called out as hypocrites.

On top of that, the media those types would consume would only ever use it to show dems in a negative light. You have to dismantle that entire media apparatus first, which means mass arrests, targeted assassinations, political purges, and, the biggest issue for the dems, not respecting the private property of fascist billionaires.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Partly (the article does refer to it being the language of NATO), but it looks to be more about joining the EU.

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