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Priorities are important though. /s (slrpnk.net)
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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can we stop treating the "national security" and "endangering our troops" takes as if they make sense? Bombing brown people isn't national security.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They aren’t trying the win the minds of people who already agree with them.

There are different words and different views of morality and liberty to different groups. This is speaking to the common sense of the right voters in their own language and values. Loyalty, pride in country over dictators, armed service as personal sacrifice for the greater population.

Reds and blues actually agree on almost everything they just explain it completely differently and fight while agreeing. The politicians however are like cartoons of the farthest views to cover for lobbyists running our government since like 1980.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago

Adding to what the other guy said, trying to get Republicans to convert to your side through FACTS and LOGIC is a fool's errand. Always has been, always will be. This is why the Democrats keep losing; they focus too much on the enemy and not nearly enough on their own base (which, I should say, already outnumbers the enemy massively; they frankly don't need anybody else).

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago

Ahhhh freedom (for the rich and powerful)

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is mask-off fascism, which should horrify every US citizen, because it means they think they have already won.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Fascism.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, fascism is famously when you don't care about "national security" and "the troops" enough.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a (reliable) (news) source on this?

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just current events. You can pick your source.

In her first paragraph she's talking about this.

In her second, this.

[–] the_three_tomatoes@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"Put our troops in danger" while they bomb the shit out of Yemen.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bombing an entire apartment building full of civilians to get one guy and his girlfriend. Real heroic shit.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

The IDF special.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago

It's extremely damning or American liberals that when they get leaked conversations of their leaders callously massacring civilians in a brutal war of aggression, their reaction is to start sqarking about "national security" and "the troops".

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Crazy how anyone is surprised by this. Republicans have always been authoritarian traitors.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's the problem with Republicans, they're not loyal enough to the glorious United States Empire