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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • ‘Oh you don’t want the extinction of humanity through global nuclear war? Why do you support the invasion of Taiwan’ how is there even 1 other person dumb enough to upvote this.

    Even a non-nuclear war with china is a terrible idea. They have 1.4 billion people and are the global manufacturing hub. If for some reason the war stayed non-nuclear the US would still be completely screwed if the war didn’t end in the first month.

    What does a successful intervention look like here. “stand there and let us bomb you, you aren’t allowed to strike back at us with ICBMs because that would be unfair. We only wanted to fight you in this theater of war where we don’t have anything at risk beyond our navy.” Ludicrous. The idea that the US should intervene is so obviously born out of decades of US imperialism1. You’ve gotten so comfortable with the idea of attacking functionally defenseless countries that you’ve forgotten that some countries can fight back.

    If you think the US should intervene to defend Taiwan do you also think China should intervene in the current war to defend Iran?

    1. or you bought in to the decade+ of very obviously manufactured consent but how much of a rube can you be.











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    23 days ago

    Wasn’t the kid who shot him a groyper

    No

    The only reason this idea was ever advanced was wishful thinking by people who wanted to have their cake and eat it too. People who wanted to be glad Kirk is gone without the ‘guilt’ of acknowledging that political violence can be a force for good or that ‘their side’ is capable of it.

    This was immediately obvious to anybody who wasn’t actively wishing they could wash their hands of it politically. ‘Oh he dressed up as a gopnik for halloween once, and I found this pepe version of a gopnik, pepe is a groyper meme therefore he must be a groyper’