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Let us never forget the most oppressed group of all, the Centrists
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If you don't support indigenous resistance to occupation, you're on the side of the occupation. There is no center.
Next you're going to tell me the Cardassians were the bad guys.
Garak, you of all people know that's true. The question is if they're the winning side or not, right?
Where do you stop? At single celled organisms, or when they invaded the earth?
Edit: updated spelling error
Lets see your opinion on Uyghurs and Ukraine.
Edit: still not answered by the person the question was SPECIFICALLY directed to.
Pro Ukraine Pro Uyghur Pro Palestine Pro Kurd
Based af
if I also support Armenia as a Turk do I become even more based?
Please stop I can only be so turned on.
Does pro Uyghur mean pro religion?
WTF does this mean? A person isn't a religion. Do you think it's okay to kill people because of their religion?
Oh its killing now? What happened to the reeducation camps?
occupied people > occupying forces
I can't think of a scenario you can come up with that would change this
so I was right; there is none
what I'm saying is there's no scenario in which you could convince me that the occupation is good. even if I concede to everything you say, russia still needs to get the fuck out. idk what you're arguing here.
He is posting a script. He has no intention of having a conversation.
He is posting propaganda. Your replies are an incentive and a smoke screen to post more.
You need to realize this.
is this a copy pasta or a new generation of satire?
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The US is not shooting Ukrainians, that simple.
THERE IT IS
A lot of words to support nazi russia.
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This is whataboutism.
Far from it.
All three are about a genocide. And there is no center about genocide. Yet tankies will shit themselves till they bleed arguing like there is some gray area regarding Ukraine or Uyghurs. As if someone deserves it.
Just like Murdochs propaganda will argue Palestine deserves what they get, because Hamas.
It's textbook whataboutism. It's like going to a Black Lives Matter protest and saying "What about all of the non-Black people who get killed by police? All lives matter!" Your response was basically "All genocides matter".
The Palestinian genocide does have one important difference from those other genocides: it's being enabled by US tax dollars. That's why so many people in the US are protesting that genocide instead of some other genocide.
Do you actually care about any of these genocides, or are you just trying to score points on "tankies"?
If you ignore the whole problem of all races matter then yeah, it is exactly the same. Otherwise it is just a shallow take.
I am questioning the morality of queermunist user, her speaking in absolutes.
You jump out with palestine genocide different because US dolla bills. And then ask if someone cares about genocides. Insinuating scoring points.
You are arguing over genocides. You have just given an argument of one over the other. You have jumped in slinging accusations because of your moral high ground.
You just did the all races matter equivalent for genocides. And the fact that you have thrown similar in my face. The cherry on top.
Kissinger.
What were u expecting?
Or the US
Land back, all of it.