As a non-USian viewing all this from the outside, I’d say blaming the people at the bottom for what the largest gaslighting machine in the history of human civilization has managed to achieve is absolutely masochistic.

Your anti-democratic political establishment is to blame for this.

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

but the US knew Saddam had chemical weapons

Yes, I know… the US knew about every gallon of mustard gas and sarin Saddam had - not only did the US provide intelligence to Saddam to specifically help his use of the stuff during the Iran-Iraq War be more effective, they could also literally read almost every damn ciphered communique of the Iraqi army at the highest levels thanks to the fact that Iraq used compromised ciphering machines bought from the CIA front company Crypto AG in Switzerland.

They knew perfectly well Saddam had destroyed all his stockpiles - if he hadn’t, Bush would have never dared to invade Iraq.

Bullcrap. Since when does genocidal European colonial-settler states have “natural rights” to the land the are perpetrating genocide upon?

And what would this (alleged) “third option” be? This?

When was this nationalist hokum ever in date? Nationality has always been a piss-poor substitute for actual cultural identities… that’s the whole reason classical liberal nation states had to be forced onto people through state brutality.

What about confronting it’s colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn’t ended.

Many haven’t fully come to terms with it.

No… they haven’t. Colonialism is not the past… it’s the present. And the Netherlands still benefit from it to this very day.

You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad.

Hint: It’s always the side perpetrating genocidal settler-colonialism that’s the bad-der one (by far), okay?

they only ever say positive things about Donald Trump

Sooo… it’s just another right-wing astroturfing project.

If the Palestinians had received a quarter of what Ukraine has received in the last three years Israel would be no more. I certainly don’t have a problem with that.

basically the UN is a forum for dialogue and we need the big players to be part of it.

Allowing the five biggest arms manufacturers on the planet to decide “security” issues is no different than allowing the five biggest drug cartels in the world to decide “health” issues.

FR though, jokes aside 90% of atheists I see on the internet are just reactionaries

I’d say 90% is still being generous.

There is no “left” in formal, establishment politics - none. Formal establishment politics is fundamentally right-wing - therefore, blaming the actions of political establishments on any left is inane.

You can beat the Nazi off the street - but once the libs hand them the keys to the tanks, it’s over.

I’m delusional for telling that ancient texts should “respected studied and understood”

Study and understand them as much as you want… but if you are trying to whitesplain away western-backed settler-colonialism by using these ancient texts as a prop you are either delusional or a propagandist.

Sadly there’s a whole bunch of people that take those texts just real fuckin serious

Not really… they just pretend to to justify their power and privilege. You’ll find just as many narratives in the old testament that subverts the ones the settler-colonialists are using - for instance, the (supposed) ill treatment of the Hebrews by the Egyptian Pharoah isn’t half as terrible as what Israel is subjecting Palestinians to.

I gave the most recent example

Do you have another one? As demonstrated, your previous claim is a pretty dodgy one.

So… just more western-backed genocidal settler-colonialism.

The west is supporting the country being invaded

Oh, sure… but not enough to actually score a decisive victory over Russia, eh? You know… that thing the Chechens managed back in the 90s without the most gigantic military logistical machine in the history of civilization sitting right next to it’s western border?

Yeah… I don’t think that’s the flex you think it is, Clyde.