• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Why would it automatically be “horrible beyond what you could imagine”? I have watched the US murder thousands of people through illegal wars, poison the entire planet, and now for years the US has supported an open genocide in Gaza, not to mention previous genocidal regimes propped up by the US.

    The things I have seen are already literally more horrible than I could have imagined. I wouldn’t imagine they would send a Tomahawk missile into a crowded elementary school, and especially wouldn’t imagine they would hit it two more times, ensuring nearly every young girl in a small town was killed. I wouldn’t have imagined these things years ago except maybe from a country like Nazi Germany. But I’ve seen it, and there is ample evidence, and we know that there is more that they do in the shadows that we might never know. Tell me why we shouldn’t stop it as quickly as possible? What would you say to the parents of these children? People have been pushing for change slowly and steadily for the entire history of the US and we are still a bloodthirsty, heartless monster, imprisoning more people than have ever been held in history.

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      I have watcheed the US murder thousands of people through illegal wars

      Millions.Take Vietnam and the completely illegal bombing of Cambodia and Laos alone, and you’re already at millions.

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        Sure, let’s take a government that controls tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and just make it cease to function. Who gets them? Who decides if they stay in their silos? Are they turned on regional rivals first, or does someone who wants a particular ethnic group to disappear send some to one part of the world?

        Just think for a second. It can always get worse. Billions.

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          We are in the middle of a historic mass extinction event because of the global ecocide commited by the wealthy elite. We will ALL suffer immensely and billions will die if nothing is done to stop them. Saying we can’t do anything because it will just get worse is a position only the very privileged could take, able to ignore the massive bloodshed happening every day.

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          23 hours ago

          Sure the nazis are killing millions, but do we really need to take military action? Who will take up the power vacuum? It can always get worse. Billions. With a B. Shocked yet? Yeah, that’s what I thought.