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Iranian soccer team carries backpacks to protest the strikes on an elementary school in Iran (i.redd.it)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

Oh, please. That's nitpicking bullshit. Nobody is trying to downplay the pure evil the US have brought to the world for decades. But acting as if the Iranian regime isn't as bad just because they don't tallied the same numbers is idiotic. I'd argue it's simply a lack of opportunity. All of those fuckers would make the world instantly better by dropping dead. That includes the governments in the US, Israel, Iran, Russia and China at the very least, plus a load of billionaires.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think it's nitpicking at all. There is a serious difference between thousands of dead and millions of dead.

    Anyone who ignores that reality is downplaying the evil that the US has wrought.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If it's just a numbers game, then the US has saved orders of magnitude more people than they've killed. Hell, even if you just look at the Bush administration, PEPFAR alone saved more than 26 million people, while the Iraq war killed one million at most.

    I mean if this is only about outcome and not about intent, the US has historically provided about 1/3 of the Earth's foreign aid. You could discount that by saying that the US, being so wealthy, was more capable of doing that. But that's not the outcome-oriented viewpoint that we're taking.

    We could look at the moral philosophy of the leaders and political systems at play here, but that would be "ignoring the reality", so let's just get out the sparklers and don our American flag shorts, because your by-the-numbers approach has a clear winner! USA! USA! USA!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Give 1 child a vaccine.

    Shoot 1 child in the head.

    Under your logic, these two are equal, and cancel each other out.

    US imperialism is a disease, please get well soon.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    Not my logic. You're the one who wanted to simplify it to body counts. Is adding good deeds also too much nuance for you? All morality is judged on bad deeds alone? Wow that's even more simplistic.

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