Heh, nice
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I guess I should read the article
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For any confused readers.
I want to believe poster, but it's a nun and a giant Armenian man slyly fistbumping
I would rather bother them very loudly.
Have there been consequences for the United States' or Canada's genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.
People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.
EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while "acknowledging its troubled past" but you're still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I'm not even saying it wouldn't be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.
Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).
What's your point with this? That the allies were right to bomb civilians? That we can have a little genocide, as a treat?
how do I boost on lemmy
Doesn't that make it even more selfless?
Speaking of the 'don, it's not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it's really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it's growing on me.
I mean if they're utilities, we shouldn't let a board decide what should rightfully be in the hands of the voting public. Really they should welcome a stable (OK maybe not so stable in the US atm, but generally...) owner as the government.