• StoneStar@feddit.nl
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    The country was literally built on genocide and slavery. OP, Remove the “if” and replace the comma with a period.

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    It’s a barbaric nation either way. That’s long since been determined. The question is how specifically fucked up is it.

    I mean, look, ICE has been publicly executing people for the last year and change, right? That’s some fucked up shit, and the people in power show no signs of stopping it. That’s barbarism.

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      The people in power have nothing to gain from stopping it. The people who are NOT in power have everything to gain from stopping it- but the cowards choose not to.

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    11 hours ago

    You already are a barbarian nation for still having capital punishment in the first place.

    This new development would just put you a few notches farther away from civilization.

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      And for torturing people. And for supporting genocide. And for bombing children. And for putting people in concentration camps…

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      11 hours ago

      Imprisoning Trump and his goons wont make a difference. Treason and mass murder need to be dealt with in a permanent way.

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    7 hours ago

    We’re profiting off a genocide for 3 years, and threatening the biggest legal body that is investigating it.

    Yeah, the US has been a barbaric nation for a while

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    Too many that are too rich. They get twisted and have to go new ways to entertain themselves.😢 And sadly our SOME community is made for sociopaths to thrive.

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    We’ve been a barbaric nation for a while. It’s just on full display now. This display of violence changes nothing.

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    12 hours ago

    If it is not Livestreamed you are still a barbaric nation. Not doing anything against children being murdered in school shootings is far worse in my opinion.

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    You are a barbaric nation, livestreamed or not. You still have the death penalty for starters, and every school shooting is met with thoughts and prayers and nothing else.

    You’ve always been this way and it’s taken a monster shining a torch on it to show you. And your plan is just to get rid of the monster, as if that makes it all OK again…

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        30% barbaric. 30% not barbaric. 40% undecided don’t see an issue with barbarism.

        FTFY.

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        We just don’t have the luxury of that argument, I’m afraid… The problems here are systemic and exist within each of us to some degree.

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah, the U.S. sucks but people from the U.K. can shut the fuck up about it.

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          American here. People from everywhere and anywhere can say whatever they want about the US. If that makes you feel bad, you can log off and not read the comments.

          I love a lot of things about this country, I work hard and am actively working towards trying to make the America around me less shitty. But the comments and criticisms on America and the people that live here and who is in power are valid. Don’t like it, fine and you may fuck off and go do something productive.

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      The people that I’ve unfortunately talked to that either support or don’t condone it do not care that this is “barbaric”. They condone violence, and they want more of it.

      You cannot shame or reason with these people. American religious conservatism is a cancer and you cannot reason with or shame with a cancer.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    The US is actively doing a lot worse than that right now <- Plug in any time in the last 250 years.