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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 hours ago??? No.
Yeah. Evil Foreigners Are Always Worse. From the Coolidge Era to the modern day, the Exotic Asian and the Angry German and the Primitive African are always and forever doing something more scary and vile than the good hearted, well-bred, noble, chivalrious, handsome (white) American.
Any argument to the contrary is Whataboutism and can be automatically dismissed.
I can’t tell if you’re asserting I’m siding with Reagan
You’re echoing his talking points, practically word for word.
Reagan issued long winded diatribes about the existential threat of authoritarian government and the fundamental virtues of individualism, liberalism, and laisse-faire capitalism.
He was surrounded by economists and pundits saying the same.
Always and forever, we were the City on the Hill. The Beacon of Liberty and Justice for All.
Even when we were bombing Grenada or funding nun rape in Nicaragua and the Philippines. Perhaps, especially then.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I do hope you’re trolling, because it’s really funny that you make a reference to Whataboutism fallacies and then immediately invoke a kind of Slippery Slope Strawman yourself.
No, saying despotic tyrannies are bad does not mean that one must embrace laisse-faire capitalist individualism, and it’s weird that you felt the need to say otherwise.
“We must embrace the boot on our necks lest people do naughty individualist things with their liberties. Send me to the gulag next so that I may not sin.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You always know a guy who is fresh out of Reddit when they sound like an LLM listing off Logical Fallacies.
Exactly! And which countries are run by despotic tyrants? Always and forever the ones we don’t like.
American Gulags First!
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You’re the one who brought them up first, buddy. You’re the pot calling the kettle black here.
So there’s no such thing as a despotic tyrant in your mind? Those words only exist to malign benevolent heads of state?
Pinning down what you’re about is exhausting given you love to play insincere. Have some intestinal fortitude and stop retreating behind sarcasm.
That or I can just block you. That’d probably be best for both of us, given your bad faith tactics.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Of course not. It’s a very effective pejorative. Really good at polarizing people into camps. Because, if you still say you like the guy, then you’re enabling tyranny. And that justifies hating the defenders of the government just as much as hating the government itself. If you start off saying you agree, then its straight on to “Well then you must be glad we flattened that guy’s house and killed as many of his friends and family as possible.”
Once you tar someone with the label, you’ve justified their execution.
I’m just tired of hearing people regurgitate ultra-nationalist propaganda. The reflexive need to point to Bad Country and dogmatically recite the prayer “At least we’re not in Bad Country”. Then to justify any horror inflicted abroad, by mouthing the apologia “At least we killed the Bad People. Now we’ll be greeted as liberators.”
Literally nobody the US can kill that some fascist fucks on here can’t massage their brains into justifying.
I know you are here to block me. Block, coward, you are only going to block a man.