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Explanation: After some three years of European powers brutally bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and using chemical weapons on each other in WW1, the Americans entered the war. We, of course, immediately indulged in the same bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and chemical weapons as every else did, but we also brought a large quantity of pump-action shotguns to the fight, with brutal effect in the tight confines of the trenches.
The German Empire lodged a formal complaint that the use of shotguns was against the laws of war due to the inhumane nature of the weapon. "Lol", said everyone else, "lmao"
Why did I feel a need to have a look at the comments though? ๐ญ
I think part of it is the deceptive simplification of political alignment into a single axis with two poles you assign whatever significance you want to.
Gov't control can be used to regulate companies for killing us for slightly larger profit margins, but also to surveil and eliminate dissidents. It's just not adequate to judge a political stance by.