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I think the thing that really gets me is when you read on reddit or even talk to people in real life (break-room politics, the best) you realize that liberals really, really don’t give a shit that the war is happening. So many comments of “I can’t believe we’re losing to IRAN” and disbelief that we didn’t just bowl over a country twice the size of afghanistan with double the mountains. If this occurred under Harris; we might have a few discontent grumbles but “Finally, we’re doing something about one of the largest powers in the middle-east! Trust me, Iran is at fault for everything so it’ll totally work this time”
Even more disgustingly, I could see them co-opting Palestine entirely and saying “Oh, we need to get rid of Iran to help the security situation in Gaza!”. That was my prediction if she did win. Why so many seemingly left-leaning liberals were eager to jump and blame Hamas at every corner.
Shit is fucking disgusting.
I was in a class full of Liberals, they just talked about how bad Trump and the state government was the entire time. I never heard any of them mention Palestine once.
Do they only care about the symptoms and not the root source of the problem? Donald Trump and Nazi German are doing what the British diaspora and European empire did, except that they are subjugating the global empires to the same cruel treatment. The forced sterilization, concentration camps, and death camps originated from the European empires and the US. I could not understand why many Western people are complaining about tariff by Donald Trump when they said that tariff against socialist Venezuela is not bad until it progressed into full economic sanctions.
I’ve actually explained this to a few Americans before and the response I got back a few times we just sheer denial, showing them the literal camps being built in Virginia and Florida, “It’s just like a prison bro”. A prison without trial? Got it. You tell them that and they just shrug.
Or, they outright tell you to your face “Good, we have too many people here anyways.”
Americans!! Gotta love em!
All they care about is the political theatre between open fascist Republicans and the crypto fascist Democrats. It is like if Nazi Germany had two parties they would be the more “left-wing” one that would care more about social programs than the other, but still wouldn’t stop the Jews from being sent to the gas chambers.