theacharnian

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How long do you think until an ICE agent is killed in the line of "duty"? A week, a month? And how many seconds after it happens will the government use it as an excuse to ratchet up the violence?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

You dropped this: /s

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the Turkish government saying about this I wonder.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Hey Americans, is this your government going too far? Or are you just being conditioned to express your rage online and then wait for the next one?

What are you going to do about this?

Up here in Canada, we will fight tooth and nail against your Fascist government. What can we expect from YOU in this fight?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I've heard that Greenland crime is very high this time of year. It's when the pre-April Hygge gang trials typically take place with irresponsible snowmobile racing that can be frankly deadly. The Greenlandic government should call the Danish army to provide a 24-7 heavy armed escort to these VIPs. For their own protection. Who knows when a Hygge snowmobile night attack.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only someone had told him that Putin doesn't negotiate in good faith.

Oh wait, that's precisely what Zelensky was trying to fucking say before the idiot of a VP that Trump has started dicking around in front of the cameras.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I dunno Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, seem to have been personally good people. That's two recent US presidents. Then I guess I would add some super low hanging fruit like Nelson Mandela, Frederick the Great, John II Komnenos, any of the Five Good Emperors, Cyrus the Great, Ashoka, and one could keep going.

EDIT: To all those pestering me about how US presidents presided over criminal imperialist policies, here is my answer from down below:

OP talked about “glaring character defects”.

These are policy failures and state crimes, arguably attributed to the American state as a whole, and the long term US imperialist policies, rather to the singular person of the president.

You might have noticed that I added Frederick the Great in the list, which tells you exactly what my understanding of the challenge was.

I'm not here to defend US imperialism, don't @ me.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Raising 20 million Brazilians out of poverty, while making his country the 8th largest economy in the world? I'm sure he's as corrupt as any Brazilian politician, but none of them have anything that comes even close to that to show for it.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hamas didn't just want hostages back in October, but let's not get derailed, yes it's true that the Israelis could have stopped the war at many occasions.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

These people might have been alive if we had a ceasefire. But no, Netanyahu's political career is more important.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

God no, the EU countries are not blameless. But they by far not the prime mover of the blowing up of the Middle East.

Junior partners are junior.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Arguably the hard right foreign policies of the US from the last 10-20 years are responsible for a lot of the migrant waves Europeans are fearing. You guys blew up the middle east...

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