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"If you didn't want fascism you should have voted!" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 23 hours ago by hamid@vegantheoryclub.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 102 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

Before you reply to me directly please understand:

  1. The US overthrew democracy in the country I am from
  2. The US installed a fascist king with secret police that terrorized my family
  3. Once kicked out the US supported a dictator in the neighboring country where the other half of my family lived
  4. The US funded both sides of a war between my country and the neighboring one that led to mass civilian deaths, one side directly by giving a dictator weapons and cash and the other side clandestinely thru laundering money by selling drugs in Latin America
  5. Once they lost that war turned on the dictator in the neighboring country and invented reasons to illegally invade. Twice
  6. Toppled the regime and left a power vacuum that consumed all my family that lived there for literally hundreds of years.
  7. Created material conditions in the country my family is from that forced them to leave or die

You Americans are not the good guys, your country and government is evil to its core.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Have you considered being born to a wealthy white family in the West? I hear it's much easier

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, like, come on! Being born in the Middle East? Rookie mistake!

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 47 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I would try to guess your country but there are too many that the US has done this to

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 4 hours ago

Point 1 definitely has some 50+ countries in it, but point 2 almost immediately leads to Iran, who suffered a coup in the 1950s because the then president wanted to nationalize the oil reserves.

Point 3 is the rise of Saddam. Point 4 is the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the Iran-Contra kerfuffle. Point 5 is the two invasions of Iraq by the USA, 1991 and 2003, the latter leading directly to point 6.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 hours ago

My guess is iran

[–] fruitfullershri@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Agreed. I'm sorry all the good people in this country are drowned out by the bad ones and their useful idiots.

Bernie losing the nomination twice should really show everyone where this nation's priorities lie. They only care about money and enriching themselves. Everyone else is just a stepping stone to that goal.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you're a foreigner, so your life doesn't' matter.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

worse, they'll say that he's privileged for not being a gay in trump's america, since that's perhaps the worst thing that could happen to a human being.

[–] fruitfullershri@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

This is too accurate.