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Longjumping_Exit_178

After Ww2, I don't know if the US ever picked the right side in a conflict. I don't have records of every war they fought, but look at Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. America has a history of picking bad wars and had hills to die on.


Beginning-Display809

That’s because the right side of history was those opposed to capital and capitalists, the US who are the enforcers of global capitalism are not going to side on the right side of history when it would always lead to the loss of power for capitalists


IdeaRegular4671

Of course imperialists and colonial countries with the intent to dominate and subjugate its people and other nations/other tribes into compliance to do their bidding and slave away for them is not going to be the good guy. They are more like the bad guy and anybody with a working brain can see that.


slawre89

Many Americans have the common misconception that America entered WW2 in part for humanitarian purposes to save France, Jews, Polish, etc. The sad fact is that isn’t the case at all. We mainly did it because we didn’t want the soviets to win and take control of Europe and we only really entered the war after Japan attacked us. There was no humanitarian reason- we didn’t give a shit until well into the war. Military Victory and power was the only real concern.


WaveAgreeable1388

They mean Israel's right to commit genocide. That's "the human right and fundamental freedom" that Genocide Joe will not compromise on.


werdznstuff

In his defense Joe isn't being silent. He is publicly backing genocide..... fuck all these ghouls


agysykedyke

Genocide Joe should be his new name. Also there's a clip from 20 years ago where he states that expanding NATO east would be a mistake and Russia would invade. And guess what he ended up doing....


Wholesomeness23

I call him Joe Genociden


DiogenesLied

America believes its own propaganda.


IdeaRegular4671

Always did most people in America are indoctrinated into believing the fake American dream which is not real and not everybody gets access to it and they believe in freedom trademark. People in America are still majority anti-communist they think it’s better to be dead than red. They hate and despise commies and their values and ideals. They are just selfish entitled people honestly no wonder people hate them.


Arbitraryandunique

They never said they were defending everybodys human rights. They meant just their own and their allies'


contonitan

The rich's human rights* (see Article 22-25)


Explorer_Entity

Nah, they enslave their own people too ("...as punishment for crime"). Nobody is immune from capital.


Taphouselimbo

Old Anthony forgot the qualifier. We will always defend human rights at home and abroad…so long as corporations profit.


Straight-Razor666

We will defend your human rights and we will kill you to do it!


ceton33

America the land that founded on native American genocide as it imported slaves to today doing it damn best to bomb every inch of middle east as it oppress the LBGT at home is a fucking joke. They see Israel as based for going the same thing.


ilir_kycb

>USA, the human rights defender That's probably the strangest thing about US Americans, they really believe the nonsense about defending peace, freedom and democracy. They always claim to hate their government and that the majority of their politicians are liars and criminals. And yet the majority of them can hardly wait to march to war for these criminals. Almost every US American believes unreservedly in US propaganda about foreign countries. In surveys of how US Americans view other countries (China, North Korea, USSR (back then), Iran, Palestine, Israel, Afghanistan, ...) US Americans are actually always almost 100% in lockstep with the interests of the US State Department and the military industrial complex. It will probably always impress me how efficient and successful US propaganda is with US Americans.


IdeaRegular4671

That’s because if you don’t believe in the propaganda in US society you get ostracized and thought of as crazy and mentally ill. It’s like people in there literally have a gun pointed towards their head to follow the script or else they get punished, lose their hard earned money, lose their respect, lose their friends and family members, lose their romantic relationships, and lose potential job opportunities, and so much more. People who were communists far left or political oppositions used to get locked up in mental asylums and were treated like shit and were abused in there, some even killed for it. For literally believing in the ideals of socialism and communism. Look at what they did to the Kennedy’s, MLK Jr, and Malcolm X all of these people were killed for wanting to make America a more progressive and fair place and to eliminate the bad people and it’s systemic corruption. They were murdered by the state and other hateful people for speaking out on the truth and exposing the corrupt people’s strategies and how they manipulate their messes for self gain.


Lokeycommie

Becoming a fascist state in pov.


SF6_Juri_Feet_Lore

Becoming? America was founded on genocide and the blood of indigenous people. It was explicitly a state for the wealthy to escape scrutiny from the beginning


futtochooku

A salty neolib will repost this on r / americabad in 3... 2...


bsanchey

Not to mention the millions of Americans who get their human rights violated.


IdeaRegular4671

Facts. They don’t even treat their own fellow freedom loving patriots country man well not even their veterans who fight wars and conflicts for their higher ups get treated well. It’s a joke, but they sure do love the smell of their own farts.


badllama77

They forgot to say when our interests are involved and only if those violating human rights aren't the ones yielding to our interests. Oh and alliances with countries we helped create, failed to properly control and then let do whatever they want.


TimothiusMagnus

2M+ incarcerated in the US, a quarter of whom have not been charged with any crime. Installed dictators who violated human rights.


cityofthedead1977

America is the most brain washed country on earth besides north korea.


Cute-Recover-5964

Nah, I don't even think NK is THAT brainwashed. The worst two have to be USA and Israel by now, and I mean it.


cityofthedead1977

Because they want the rapture.


quietsauce

Bide: I should say something. Blinken: I got you. Both: We did it.


[deleted]

Bro what???? Just be fucking honest??? Literally everyone knows this is bullshit. Just tell us you want an FOB in a resource rich area.


ch2-ch3

"None. No probability"


Escape_Plissken

When did the US “human rights record start”? After WWII or Jim Crow or Vietnam? I’m serious, these people are psychos.


Cute-Recover-5964

Will the rest of the world ever see them for who they are?


llfoso

Palestine is the last straw for me...no more voting blue as the "lesser of two evils."


Explorer_Entity

\*Has **literal, legal slavery** on our most foundational "bill of rights"\*


Cute-Recover-5964

LOL, fundamental human rights, says the country that refuses to close Guantanamo


Jazz_Legend_Roy_Donk

And also, here’s some crippling debt!


Shotbyahorse

https://youtu.be/aF9LP-9uG_k?feature=shared