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If you're entirely ignorant about anything ever, sure.

The profit driven world economic system which puts profits over people at every point. We call it capitalism.

Oh I do it's just that what you wrote is senseless so I figured that you were practicing typing on a keyboard and was successful.

These are also words. Well done.

Ah, preach brother Neolib, preach :cheer: Edgelord Nietzsche wannabe lol

Those are certainly words.

Call it what you want. Me, I'd call it a case study in massive failure of healthcare policy.

We also use evidence. Even wankers and tyrants have principles. But as far as principles go, "whatever the US does, do the opposite" is not a bad one.

One thing's for sure: the American experience shows privatized healthcare is an utter failure that not only entrenches misery and poverty, but costs m...

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Because the abuse of power by unaccountable multi-billion dollar international monopolies in cahoots with state power without option of recourse is so...

Vox? The Spanish fascists? That's to be expected.

Not having to clutter the forum with nonsense posts.

I kinda have to agree with @"frank" on this one. America's fetish is their military culture. There are few other countries in the world which has a cu...

@"1 Brother James" has been banned for poor post quality.

Also worth quoting a bit out of Raymond Geuss' essay back in 2004: "For a brief moment after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in...

In the 50s perhaps, but the anti-war sentiment that grew during Vietnam was legendary and historical. Perhaps the filter though which I understand the...

Last I checked the only people quibbling about labels were morons who would rather gatekeep their precious little Nouns than postmortem America's clos...

Probably some proxy war with China over in Africa or something. But considering US invasions have never been based on facts but only ever sheer opport...

Anyone who expects America to 'learn a lesson' has not learnt the lesson that Americans don't learn lessons. That the US is having a redo of Vietnam i...

Trump proved you could lie about things right in front of everyone's face and have most of the country swallow it there and then. Presidents lie routi...

Fun fact: women were allowed to vote in Afghanistan before the US. https://centralasiainstitute.org/womens-voting-rights/

Indeed. The Afghans appealed to the Soviets for help because the Americans were doing such a good job at helping the reactionary feudal opium growers ...

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1427968752432332806

Well the Afghan people had modernizing agendas before the US decided that the opium growers and feudal landlords ought not be displaced because the US...

Interesting projection there. You must be confusing me for @"frank"'s overt racism. But yeah, almost everything that is shit in the Middle East is a d...

Correct. @"ssu" is largely talking out of his ass.

Wait till you find out about how America treats its own citizens. Just last year they had enormous, nationwide protests against the local regime over ...

Among morons, sure.

Sure, it's granted that far more Afghanis died for American colonial designs than Americans. America's trail of dead is multicultural. A rainbow coali...

OK sure, dead American soldiers died for not just defense stocks but incredibly shitty defense stocks. Excellent point comrade. Didn't think they coul...

Biden did not have 'optimism' regarding the Afghan military. He simply lied, outright. Which to be fair is nothing new considering they have been lyin...

Dead American soldiers - most of whom were probably poor and optionless - gave their lives for this and nothing else: https://twitter.com/Public_Citiz...

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1427789467343941638 Pls America kindly fuck off from the face of the Earth outside of America kthx.

Afghanistan was not a waste or a loss or failure. It was an absolute success. Every time someone calls it a failure, they have no fucking clue what th...

From a former US Vet: "I don’t think I could overstate that this was a system just basically designed for funneling money and wasting or losing equipm...

All of this seems wildly off topic. My point is simply that America has been responsible for making Afghanistan the hell hole it is today, and while i...

Or maybe I make snide remarks like that because the democratic party is one half of a right-wing ratchet mechanism that is dragging your miserable nat...

The democratic party is the graveyard of Left politics in the US. It exists to coopt, diffuse, and suck-in any viable left energy. It's a black hole. ...

I'm not sure it would matter other than a game of speculative fantasy.

The US has never given a shit about international law and squabbling about this or that internal agent is a game for idiots.

I don't particularly think the distinction is of any import. Weather the CIA or Carter himself, if not one than the other, as has always been the murd...

I'll bite, kinda. The problem with this is that you assume that that money didn't go exactly where it was supposed to go. Straight into the hands of m...

Or for those less Tweet inclined: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/12/02/afghanistan-another-untold-story The best thing America can do for Afg...

Quite literally yes. (I can't figure out how to quote Tweet the Afghanistan stuff alone without the Somalia stuff, but consider the Somalia stuff bonu...

There's always someone with a scary exotic name around. The US doesn't need an excuse to be shitty, murderous nation. They will find one regardless.

US intervention anywhere has always perpetuated cycles of violence and end up coming home to roost. It's an iron law of the universe no different to e...

Agreed. Every single country that cheerled and participated in the US colonization of Afghanistan now owes its refugees not only legal asylum, but hou...