Violence to uproot a US-backed dictatorship which shoves dissidents into mass graves every other week? Unacceptable and unnatural.

Violence to assist an ethnonationalist settler colonial project in eliminating resistance in the ghetto they shoved the indigenous population into for the past 75 years? What violence? Simply is a natural process.

Not even getting into the violence the American state used to entrench itself during its own revolution (against royalists, natives, farmers who want to pay less taxes like the Whiskey Rebellion) and, today, wages abroad and on its own citizens every other day (poverty, imprisonment, police brutality) to maintain itself.

Remember, the “hypocrisy” is the point when it comes to defending Empire. Deep down, they simply believe it’s a team sport.

Link to this dipshit

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    The Whiskey Rebellion will never not be funny

    A country ‘allegedly’ born out of pathological hatred of taxation without proper local representation decided to turn to taxation (while lacking in representation)

    Then when there was an uprising over it, they decided to try and put it down with force without a trace of irony (which was amplified because quite a lot of dissenters were American Revolution veterans)

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the US Constitution (which I very much recommend) posits that many of the people involved with Shays’s Rebellion (also Revolution vets) took on the viewpoint that since the masses fought for the freedom of the country, they should be entitled to a share of it. Given that the Whiskey Rebellion wasn’t that much further down the timeline it wouldn’t surprise me if the taxes were just fuel to an already smoldering pile of kindling the Opulent Minority were having trouble extinguishing.

  • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    even if we grant that his story is true, the opinion was “I can cruelly exploit a destitute underclass while enjoying opulent wealth”

    so fuck his family rest in pepperoni

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Hamas could end this war today

    israel could have stopped treating Palestinians like shit at any point since 1948, but all they did was further expand into Gaza and West Bank while continuing apartheid practices. Wild how israel somehow has no agency whatsoever.

  • Red_sun_in_the_sky [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    hamas could end the war today

    Wow this is really ground breaking

    the blood ia on your hands

    I love that these types flip between bloodthirst and then also claim that blood is on our hands. Yeah totally.