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Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The fact that the American military is going along with these stupid endeavours just show you how ignorant fucking Americans and the military are. Spineless, gutless cowards who can’t fight their way out of anything including trumps diaper.
Get fucked Americans. You. Fucking. All. Suck.
The American military is a den of animals and monsters. disgusting subhuman cowards; Bloodthirsty beasts.
Dehumanising people, calling them animals, subhuman, beasts, etc - using their own horrid, evil tactics basically - is not how you win me, or anybody decent, over.
They can be bad people doing bad things, but the moment you try to persuade us that they're not human, but are less than human (and it thus follows that doing bad things to them is more acceptable than doing bad things to actual human people), you immediately lose my support.
No thank you.
We can't win over decent people because decent people are already leftist, or at least anti trump. No one cares if we lose the support of some random asshole either too evil or too up their own ass to see the truth.
And these 'people' are made less than human by their own choices.
Nah they had their grace period. They're not a ethnic group or sexual orientation. They only thing that unites them as a group is their willingness to kill and die for the American empire and I'm fine with painting such people with broad brush.
Especially now that direct American involvement Israel's suicide wars is official. Fuck any non-combat service member who hasn't at least been filing the paperwork to get the fuck out ASAP. Anyone in a combat role, pilots, or anyone involved in bombs, missiles, or targeting who are willingly fighting in this war is a lost cause.
They will come back and happily do the same to us and so I will happily dehumanize them.
They act like inhuman beasts then that is what they are. Barbaric scum it hope PTSD or the neglect of their nazi empire takes them.