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@TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

Your source is biased, bro

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Your source is biased, bro

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  • @avrachan@lemmings.world
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    11•2 years ago

    yeah,

    these are the democracies that invaded Iraq/Libya to install a democracy.

    I keep having to remind myself how much good it did to the people of Iraq/Libya.

    • @SCB@lemmy.world
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      Iraq is absolutely a functioning democracy and not a dictatorship right now.

      Libya would be if it actually got invaded, which 100% should have happened. UN forces not taking control of the situation is a huge stain on the UN.

      • @avrachan@lemmings.world
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        maybe you should read some articles from beyond the international community.

        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/4/5/iraq-war-20-years-on-visualising-the-impact-of-the-invasion

      • mycorrhiza they/them
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        Calling for the invasion of Libya is fucking monstrous.

        Over a million Iraqis died due to the US invasion of Iraq.

        • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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          They did mention the UN.

      • @crackajack@reddthat.com
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        Not sure where you have been in the past years but ISIS and Islamists in Libya.

        The Middle East is a curious place. Regime change doesn’t work if the population are too fractured for nation building, which Middle Eastern countries has plenty of. It is tragic to argue that living under authoritarians that provide stability is better than living free but without law and order.

        I’m an advocate for democracy as much as the next person, but the secular dictators are what kept Islamic extremism in check. In this case, the dictators are the lesser evils. Which is why people accept that Bashar Al Assad won the Syrian civil war instead of placing faith on any of the opposition to rule, some of whom are Islamists.

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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      15•2 years ago

      and we all remember what a paradise those countries were. man, that time gadaffis son killed a waiter because he spilled soup. you miss him?

      • @avrachan@lemmings.world
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        remember the black dude who gets shot for talking back in America ? anecdotes don’t prove a general point.

        btw Libya was doing better under Gaddafi

        https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Libya/human_development/

        • @Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
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          country did better before war than after.

          amazing

          • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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            was that the reason for those arab springs?

            was at least the weapon to kill gadaffi american so you can blame the west?

            fuck hamas.

      • mycorrhiza they/them
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        Libya now has open-air slave markets and has been described as a humanitarian disaster.

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        2•2 years ago

        About as much as I miss Bush lying to us about WMD.

    • @Furball@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, Iraqis miss saddam so much don’t they? Especially the Kurds.

      • @avrachan@lemmings.world
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        I’m sure they don’t miss the Americans.

        • @Furball@sh.itjust.works
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          Bet they weren’t unhappy in 2014

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        1•2 years ago

        I don’t miss Bush. A man I was too young to vote for, who lost the popular vote and was installed by his brother. A brother who got his position because his father was the head of intelligence service. Bush was a mediocre painter and a war criminal.

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      1•2 years ago

      Japan invaded Iraq and Libya?

      • @avrachan@lemmings.world
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        1•2 years ago

        so boring

      • @Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        0•2 years ago

        Yes

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