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i hope the liberals who supported this administration can look back at this tragedy in a decade and despair.
I hope they can't
Is it so much to ask that they look back on these horrors now and throw themselves off bridges?
They won't. Even the ones that virtue signal about being against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, don't really mean it. It's just focus grouped campaigning.
I figured you were talking about politicians etc., who claim they were against the Iraq/Afghanistan war. And they say that because it polls well now.
Means testing is the practice of limiting eligibility for social programs based on poor people's income, assets, etc. The amount of resources it ostensibly saves the government is usually soaked right back up by the armies of clerks needed to perform all the extra processing and surveilling entailed. It is an absurd and cruel practice, but it doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.
Oh woops wrong word my bad idk why I said it. Is there another word I can use to edit it? I'm not sure what to use...
Edit: maybe focused grouped?
They'll despair as much as they have in the aftermath of the Iraq war; that being not at all and to blame 'the experts' who told them nothing was wrong with Israel or its actions; the same experts who said Iraq had WMDs, experts they'll refuse to stop listening to.
Regardless of what choice they make it'll never be their fault, or if they accept some fault, it'll only be very minorly their fault.
can't look back if your head is in a basket
No, that schedule is reserved for cognitive-dissonating that rounding up immigrants into labor camps is a good thing, actually