• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    Wut. The US has a list of people to assassinate. Its not a conspiracy theory, they admit it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix

    They even had to come up with a euphemism “targeted killing” because it is illegal to assassinate, yet they still do it.

    I dont think any US Americans are unaware that the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, including in assassinations.

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      9 months ago

      People in general are pretty unaware of the scope of US atrocities, or they think it’s something that happened in the past, and isn’t currently happening.

      Thus all the posts to “protect our freedom from authoritarian regimes”, when in reality it’s the US who runs slave labor camps, is currently bombing many countries, killing and torturing dissidents, runs immigrant detention camps, etc.

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        9 months ago

        Read the Wikipedia article on the My Lai Massacre, (make sure to look at all the photos) and then lecture me about how I should “support our troops” and about how foreign people hate us for “our freedom”. I’m ashamed to say, though I was a kid when it happened and heard the name, I never once looked into it until now. Nobody ever mentions it, it never comes up in the press and surely not in conversation. Americans prefer blissful ignorance and fairy tale justifications for all the evil we do around the world and at home.