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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

This kind of rhetoric is why peDon won. americans are useless, don't count on any of them to stop fascism.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

In any case, you guys need to do better.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip -1 points 9 months ago

Yes let's shit on fascist resistance with "uhm actually"

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Congress had to lift a ban on arming neo-Nazis in order to send weapons to Ukraine. And Bernie, a supposed progressive, is arguing the US should continue a brutal proxy war by continuing to arm extremists.

This country has lost its fucking mind.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social -2 points 9 months ago

That feel when my phone only rendered “geneva_convenience@le…” but I still knew it was .ml before checking

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Freedom House doesn't label places as "dictatorships." So this is suspect right off the bat. They use a "freedom index."

No doubt the figure from 2015 includes significant support and training to Afghanistan, labeled with a score of 6 out of 100. Does that count as supporting a dictatorship? No.

If we sell weapons to the Saudis to fight Iranian creep, is that supporting dictatorship? Maybe a little. No question of Iran and Saudi, Iran is a much less free and much worse dictatorship. Sometimes that's just how progress looks.

This "fact check" is at best highly misleading, bordering on false.

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