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Old 06-27-2021, 06:16 PM   #9331 (permalink)
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Huh. Guess I didn't realize that. Must've not been around much at the time.
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Old 06-27-2021, 06:32 PM   #9332 (permalink)
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It was before your time. Back when MB was great again.
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Old 06-27-2021, 06:57 PM   #9333 (permalink)
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Old 06-27-2021, 07:54 PM   #9334 (permalink)
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Old 06-27-2021, 08:03 PM   #9335 (permalink)
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I would say that yes, military combat indeed collapses whatever ideas of shared humanity that we may have.
military conflict is a symptom. Geopolitics is the virus. Military conflict doesn't just manifest randomly. There's always underlying geopolitical pressures that set the stage for a conflict to occur.

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I wouldn't confound this with something as vague and incoherent as "geopolitical pressures" though. It can mean anything from "in order to prosper, Germans must carve vast territories to the east into their Lebensraum by ethnically cleansing and enslaving local populations, who they regard as biologically inferior" to "we need to renegotiate the terms of our access to this source of water."
what is incoherent about it? What term/lense of analysis would you use to describe the mounting tension between USA and Iran if not geopolitics?
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Old 06-27-2021, 08:36 PM   #9336 (permalink)
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Lol yeah you got pissed at your boss for being a c*nt and now you think you're Rosa Parks over here.
He can't be oppressed because he's white tho.
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Old 06-27-2021, 10:22 PM   #9337 (permalink)
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IMHO this type of rhetoric forecloses any meaningful engagement in politics: if you brand a collective as broad as the American (or the Iranian) people a bunch of genocide-loving racists, then where do you go from there? To the self-satisfied knowledge of your superiority and what else?
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Old 06-27-2021, 11:15 PM   #9338 (permalink)
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Old 06-28-2021, 04:44 AM   #9339 (permalink)
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U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian-linked militias in Iraq and Syria

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"We assess each strike hit the intended targets, and we are currently assessing the effects of the operation," Pentagon spokesperson Commander Jessica McNulty said in a statement, calling the strikes a "necessary, appropriate, and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation."

"Through these and other means," McNulty said, "we seek to make clear to Iran and Iran-backed militia groups that there will be serious consequences if they continue to attack, or to arm, fund, and train militia groups that attack our people."

Iraq's Ministry of Defense, however, condemned the strikes as "a blatant and unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty and Iraqi national security in accordance with international conventions."

General Yehia Rasool, spokesman for the General Commander of the Iraqi Armed Forces, issued the reaction in a series of tweets, adding that his country refused "to be an arena for settling accounts," an allusion to the long-standing tension between Iran and the U.S.
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It was a joke, libtard. I don't care if I hurt your feelings. This isn't a safe space. Warning, I speak my mind and don't care how it makes you feel. I'm not here to cater to snowflakes. I gotta big truck a lotta guns and one tiny penis. No trigger warnings from me, buddy.
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