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Trump is a continuation of all this, but with more intensity and worse PR. And he's alienating his allies.
@aral USA, the greatest .... perpetrator nation.
Yes! I was just thinking how every time America set aside due process for collective punishment in the last hundred years, we needed up regretting it.
Abu Ghraib, Japanese interment and slavery leapt to mind. Some of the older tragedies are (still) well hidden by decades of myth-making.
@TCatInReality @aral Every single time the US has invaded a country over the last 80 years it was unprovoked collective punishment for hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
@aral "This is who we are now" the US did not commit a single human rights violation before this.
Funny seeing Europeans whitewash themselves and pretend they haven't done anything like this. But that's business i guess :p I guess the war on terror, gazan genocide and exploitation of the third world is not real now lol.
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@nerdeiro Man, I hadn’t even heard of that one and I thought I was rather aware of this stuff.
@HeavenlyPossum People are odd.
Well, half of them are.
@iamdavidobrien @HeavenlyPossum I should’ve said “some” :)
@aral
I think our refusal to acknowledge all these terrible black marks throughout US/colonizer history has direct ties with the (awful) place we are today. You can't be all in on "American exceptionalism" when you acknowledge this list (plus so much more; Iran and Chile/Pinochet always come to my mind)
@aral the greatest and most important lesson of history is that people fail to learn the lessons of history