• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    As opposed to all the other times the US removed a sovereign foreign leader? I can name more than half a dozen off the top of my head and I know there’s way fucking more than that that I’d have to look up to remember. Same as it ever was.

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      We literally did the same thing to Manuel Noriega in the 80s. But at least he was a legit narco kingpin.

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      1 month ago

      Western Journalism in a nutshell.

      Forget or whitewash western history of atrocities, exaggerate others.

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      1 month ago

      Yup. I immediately thought of Libya when it happened, but I’m a bernie bro and most of the people I discuss politics with still deify Barack Obama, so they hadn’t considered that.