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[–] xkbx@startrek.website 52 points 3 weeks ago

When they can’t remember which brown person said what

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 36 points 3 weeks ago

What we learn here is that Mike Rogers thinks America may have deserved the 9/11 attacks. It's an open, debatable question in his mind.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course it is false. It was said by a Republican politician.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When will anyone ever consider suing these pieces of shits?

[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Suing for defamation is very hard in US. It is only practical against poor people in states without anti SLAP laws. I don't think a republican politician would have problems with financing his defense for not at all corrupt reasons /s

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right, but costing them money while having it on the record that they lied is something. If you have the time and money yourself

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey they both have scary terrorist names..... Easy mistake to make /s

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Like the terrorist sounding police officer who got killed

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73534639

Except not really, because in context he was talking about the boomerang effect. But if authoritarians and liberals understood nuance they wouldn't be authoritarians or liberals.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He didn't say, but he would have been correct if he did

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thousands of people died. But who gives a shit about them, right?

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They did. They didn't deserve it. USA, however, armed, trained and killed people who commited that attack, and did nothing to prevent this kind of retailation. If you kill someone's family, hand them a loaded gun and turn around, you deserve to get shot.

Not that "deserve" is the best word to explain blowback, but I'm sure you can bridge this gap in semantics, and understand that victims aren't the people blamed in that context.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The people didn't deserve that, but incredible violence been done in the name of the country, so it's inevitable that someone would strike back.

But it was honestly a gift to the warhawks in that country. They immediately used the political capital to attack a convenient and unrelated middle eastern country.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yup. That is exactly what violent expressions of hatred results in.

So what lesson did you learn from the end result of using violence out of hatred towards a country?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That we can feel superior to all parties by pointing out the obvious?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Saying people deserve to be the target of violence isn't being superior to anyone.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, violence is bad.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That had we not had a history of committing acts of of mass violence in other countries, we wouldn't have deserved to have one committed upon us. We did though, so we do.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're selectively empathetic than any claims of empathy towards people in other countries is suspect. I think you're likely a psychopath.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can both empathize with the loss of innocent life, and understand that it was consequences of their collective actions. If someone where to stab someone, and that person stabbed them back, and the attacker dies, you can both mourn the loss of life, but also understand the attacker deserved what happened to them. Had we not accepted the warmongering, corporate, fascists, controlling our government, we would not have slaughtered 100's of thousands of people in foreign countries in the first place, thus avoiding the retaliation we received. That attack was defensive. Your previous comment implies that if a country is attacked by another, they should not attack them in return, because it would be underserved, which is just completely naive pacifism.

[–] RandomHugs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Wow. Such shitpost. Much funny.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought it was American Evangelicals that thought sinful liberals deserved it.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't it gay people, as always, who brought down the wrath of God?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago

or anti imperialists

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Dealbreaker