Like whether an administration drops 1 bomb or 100000 if I lost a family member(s) from that single bomb, you're damn right I'd be mad if some gay was like "we are improving things in the military". I would probably hate whoever was responsible for dropping said bomb. Its that simple.

Plus we should all know by now that queer people get hit by those bombs too. Have we really memory-holed this so quickly? time.com/6326254/quee...

Only the Dems would think to sell vile imperialism as girlboss feminism.

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How is everyone else in the rest of the world doing today? I hope you're doing well.

if we don't bomb the middle-east now who is going to rise up and fight back to justify us bombing the middle-east in twenty years?

Isn't weird how Americans seem to view the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market" AND the "Very Visible Hand of the Armed Forces" as entities that exist independent of humans, as if people aren't in charge of anything, and what happens because of either is this sort of ever present emergent behavior

When you play a game other people don’t like they straight up execute you. No trial no apepal

FFS. This obviously co-opts, and will possibly be confused with and taint, legitimate concerns about the ban causing isolation for queer teems, especially regional ones.

URGENT the temp for weeks is going to be in the 40s and we’re going to be getting lots of rain which means it’s cold. I can’t run up my electricity using the oven and it’s not doing that well of a job. PLEASE HELP. We also have no hot water and I’m having to boil pots to of water for warm baths

The best way for cis people to observe Trans Day of Remembrance is to ensure trans people, and particularly trans POC, can be here, rather than remembered

Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of American imperialism eh?

America's Enemies ™️

The real tragedy in all this is the loss of the USA’s LGBT & racially diverse military capabilities. We really had something going before he got his grubby cheeto hands on the ever-victorious United States Armed Forces. It was The Avengers and Justice League Hogwarts all in one, and he tore it down!

from you about comparable abuses being carried out in your nation, your region, your city, maybe your own damn neighborhood. There's something going on here, because you clearly consider abuse and exploitation carried out by *them* worse than exploitation and abuse carried out by *us*. And your

vigilant about it your whole life. When people are obsessive about things happening in China (never Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia) or the Soviet Union (hasn't existed since the 90s) or the actions of men who died decades or generations ago, it's like... I don't see this degree of vehemence and hate

poverty elsewhere. And it's like nah, actually, abject poverty sucks no matter where you experience it, and borders are fake, and you were trained to be a fascist your whole life and that tiny poisonous serpent is always going to be hiding inside you, whispering to your psyche, and you have to be

Aside from the whole Yellow Menace sly oriental communist devils thing, I wonder to what degree Westerns mindless hatred of China stems from ignorance of how appalling conditions are for some people in their own nations. Like there's this idea that the US doesn't have *real* poverty when the UN has

Unlike political scientists, some of us have to reckon with material reality.

Actually yes. The rest of the world being murdered by your bombs coincidentally aren’t full-fledged Nazis with the most powerful military in the world, but not surprised you haven’t noticed that given decades of impunity to do “campaigns”. jfc

Army vet never seen a war crime he ain’t liked yet. Wish you would YIMBY your shit where it belongs on your front lawn. 😊

A key component of liberalism is the idea that non american lives are ours to bargain with and worth less than american lives

It's wild you can't tell this meme is specifically about bombing the Middle East and not "who controls the bombers" The joke is that whoever's in the White House, the Middle East still gets bombed

Rainbow B-52 is not infinitely preferable because it co-opts identity politics to make people ignore atrocities. Hope this helps.

I love how even ghouls like this can only give the democrats credit for "acknowledging" our rights. I appreciate the honesty

western liberalism holds that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, but suddenly when there’s a group of people who stand in the way of the state’s objectives those rights become squishy and negotiable. the point of the meme is that the rainbow bomber will bomb you too

gonna do my best to respond to this in good faith. if a nation-state is only willing to grant rights and privileges to a certain group of people while violating those same rights for another group, that state does not truly honor its supposed principles and does not deserve to exist

“Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?” Excuse me? Am I, a Pakistani, supposed to be grateful for all the drones and bombs that were used to massacre people in my homeland because it was done under the auspices of a black president and the dems?! I’m actually speechless.

Every day I’m reminded of how little the lives of people that look like me matter. The fact you’re even having these debates is a testament to that, as if my people are props to win an argument, and not actual human beings Go fuck yourselves.

"I don't get why people don't like the idea of the States being a global military power that does nothing but colonize, creep, and genocide. Why don't you like when they do it with a smile?"

Chat, is not wanting people to be bombed to death homophobic? (I think this must be a bit to ragebait from the username being "hottakes", but those taking it seriously few things to research: pinkwashing, homonationalism, imperialism, Obama drone strikes)

It lmakes no difference to the people getting the brunt of USA imperialism what color tie the person in charge of that wears and if you can not grasp that... I don't even know where to start? There's a difference to YOU, in usa, it makes no difference to people whose families you killed overseas

We need a girlboss war criminal as US President for once.

What if politicians *gasp* lied to you

Because my right to be myself isn't dependent on imperialism, it's actually at contention with that. It's an insult to conflate those things for that reason. Say it wasn't, in some instance. I don't care. You don't get to use our identities as a shield to murder people.

Back on the old site I once saw somebody say that Political Science is the only degree that makes you worse at its discipline than someone with no formal education in it whatsoever and I think about that a lot

Not surprising but certainly clarifying that the Western media is orders of magnitude more upset about Trump calling an American journalist "piggy" than they are about Israel killing over a hundred Palestinian journalists.

A lot of people don't seem to (or refuse to) understand that "let people get sick and then strong will be fine and nature will take its course with the vulnerable" is a eugenicist position

It's a little sign of how broken we are within modern society that we use 'animal' as a slur.

This is still at $967. I would give if I could. I can't. Please.

Girlfriend and I were spitballing idly about an England-based FALLOUT game and she ended up devising the "fully autonomous robo-Thatcher" (FART). I for one will not be sleeping tonight

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Please mask up and stop spreading COVID, in memory of Alice.

the “anti-fascist popular front” is big enough to include actual fascists (MTG) but not the most vulnerable targets of fascism (trans people, migrants), because they’re not actually trying to construct an anti-fascist popular front.

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Pie charts usually have such low information density that they are worth avoiding, but these ones from a classified December 1945 report by the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan on the "medical effects" of the atomic bombings carry much more information than was perhaps intended... wow and yikes.

The lioness does concern herself with the opinions of the ewe, because she's a feminist

The bad guys are winning and destroying the world because too many of the so called good guys aren't willing to fight as hard and as dirty as they are. "When they go low we go high" is how you get your ass whipped. Badly. theconversation.com/how-the-rich...