God, I fucking hate this so much. The empire leveraging its decades-long propaganda.

"We did it too, now you wouldn't criticise the United States like some freedom-hating commie, would you? So you shouldn't criticise Israel either! A little genocide is fine if we say so!"

Room full of white people nod along and clap.

"We did that as well but it is not a war crime because we investigated ourselves afterwards and found out we did nothing wrong"

What normal people can take this seriously?

The Bush Jr. presidency remains the single biggest thing I am mad about, so this angle is useless against me and - if anything - just pisses me off more

*throws shoes

we tried to learn from it to make changes

the chance to make changes is right now, binch