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How can Americans view their soldiers' deaths as tragic events, despite the U.S. initiating wars and killing other countries' civilians without justification? (piefed.world)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1282913/how-can-americans-view-their-soldiers-deaths-as-tragic-events-despite-the-u-s-initiating

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

I'm legitimately curious if you are asking this because you think only Americans kill other country's civilians during conflict or if that's the only country whose murder of innocent civilians bothers you.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    BTW, it’s not only the murder of civilians that makes the US military so evil. It’s also the sheer scope of brutality, in terms of size and time that the US has perpetrated with not only direct military action, but also proxy military actions, and economic and civil violence that is facilitated by the threat of military action.

    Other people being shits has no bearing on how big a shit you are.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I'd hazard a guess that the US kills a lot more civilians than a typical country.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Russia is not a typical country..

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Ok, so I gather from the responses, it's ok to murder citizens if you come in under an atypical country's murder count.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    We're just exceptional at it.

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

    We're a country of terrorists. As you say, we've streamlined the process.

    We're just not the only country of terrorists and my original question to the OP stands. I couldn't find his post where he asked why Russia's populace weren't up in arms over the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian civilians. I have to assume that there's something about the US that bothers him more than the murdered civilians.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This sounds very "you're not allowed to discipline your child until you've disciplined every other naughty child in the world."

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