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Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists (novaramedia.com)
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[+] -21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's crazy. Fortunately the world is full of countries like China, the US, Germany, Russia... you know, big places where everything has run on compassion for others and doing the right thing for the last hundred plus years.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    What's your point with this whataboutery ?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's just some strange tribalism I think. I think in their mind you have to be supporting another empire instead, it seems some are unable to understand that you support none of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    That's an interesting theory.. I have none myself, except maybe they were being terribly sarcastic?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Ding ding ding.

    I'm lost on how so many people seemed to take me listing the countries I did followed by the description of them as having "run on compassion for others and doing the right thing for the last hundred plus years" and seen anything other than sarcasm.

    All of the listed countries have been responsible for the deaths of mass numbers of innocent civilians, and kids, and nuns, and nuns carrying infants who were carrying baby kittens over the last 100 or so years. Fuck, more than one of them has been responsible for that in the last few months.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    In my case it was a combination of it being hard to read sarcasm online in many cases, especially if you are not already familiar with the author, along with the number of times I run into "You don't support A? That means you support B!" in political discussions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I covered a few bases and was very wordy in my other comment to you, but otherwise yeah that really did not land for the majority. FWIW sarcasm was my first take.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Nice. To be fair I was super high yesterday and couldn't stop typing. Switched ADD meds yesterday morning and am now trying to adjust to a larger amount of a different form of amphetamine. Not an awful problem to have, but understandably likely confusing to try to translate from the outside.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Aha I also was commenting way too much last night. Hope the meds go well - my healthcare provider often mandates a gradual switch of taking both together, and increasing one while decreasing the other, mainly to mitigate adverse effects. If you switched suddenly that would be hella rough.

    You don't need to justify anything, and thanks for sharing 🙃

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I find it more than a bit ironic that after I list many other countries who have done and/or are doing tons of awful things you say that.

    What strange tribalism? What tribe? Why do you think I'm imagining anyone is supporting any empire? I said nothing positive about anyone. The entire point was "Yeah, seems like the bulk of the world is run by awful cunts. Let's have a pint."

    ... and that means I'm in some sort of tribe? Do we at least get fancy hats?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Edit: each of these are incorrect, and more wild theories based on misconceptions than simply 'sarcasm that missed the mark'. We were the ones with the misconceptions, not Abyssian.

    I get it, if you mean I'm being unnecessarily narrow-minded: there's no need to single out one or two cruel empires when there are many.. All of the most globally influential countries and many smaller ones are ethically awful and cause suffering, that it may be easier to count the ones that are wholly kind and benevolently ruled.

    If you are subtly referencing the destruction of native civilisations for the unification of the newcomers: Many countries like Australia, Russia and Greenland (to name a few, perhaps less known ones) have natives a.k.a. people who lived there first that are horribly oppressed and shunned, but let's not try to erase the most significant acts of evil in modern history, condoned by a massive portion of the local population. One wrongful act does not excuse or justify another.

    If you're referring to the systemic hate of Jews in those countries and most of Europe: please remember that the ethnoreligion of Judaism, the cult of Zion and the nationality of Israel are not the same.

    *Edited out wildly inaccurate claim

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