mrbutterscotch

I think it's because most people don't like or dislike animals based on how violent they are.

No it's the interest if the debt they are paying 88billion for. Not the debt itself. So the debt isn't actually being paid off.

Idk, someone intelligent wouldn't have attacked ukraine.

I think we are regardless

Fair enough. Great times!

Yeah I understand where you're coming from. Maybe I am also too much of an optimist. I hope not, because I believe if Europe and other democracies around the world don't band together we might be in for a rough ride.

I don't think there is enough evidence to suggest that it is the size alone that contributes to them being fucked up. Most sizable countries today didn't start out as democracies, so they never had the chance to not be fucked up. (And I would argue US for instance never really was a modern democracy to begin with)

There are a lot of small countries just as fucked up or even more so. I think it has much more to do with what values and ideologies countries were formed with that impact how fucked up they are.

A European Republic would only ever be borne out of democratic processes and not by force. I do believe a European Republic could be the first (truly) democratic super power.

lmao the arrogance.

~~Again~~, I never called their deaths “bull shit”. I called the use of their deaths as justification for invasion and the inflation of numbers (we have no way of verifying) “bull shit”.

Nope, not again. This is the first time you actually clarified this. Why not do so from the start? Your original comment very much reads like you think the murder of protesters is an outright lie.

Instead you went of on a weird tirade about how no one should mention the crimes the Iranian regime has committed.

And no, I won't engage in your twisted attempt at using weird arguments about morality to make people that mention these crimes somehow supporters of the US invasion.

Oh sure, I bet there is a hugely positive 'material outcome' from calling the death of people bullshit, but hey, whatever you have to tell yourself to justify a shitty opinion.

All you had to say was something like:

"My bad, should've worded it differently. I meant it doesn't justify the war"

or something of the sort. At this point it would've been better to not say anything.

But alas, here we are.

Friend, again, it was you that mentioned the deaths of protesters and called it bullshit. Not me. Not sure how many times I have to say that. None of your comments serve any purpose either, so why are you writing them? And we know about the civilian deaths because of Iranians reporting them before the internet was turned off and not because it's some baseless claim from the US. You are making a lot of effort to excuse your belittling of civilian deaths.

Sure and you let me know at what point it is okey to mention the child raping mullahs that murdered thousands of their own people that you are so valiantly defending here. And when it stops being okey to call the deaths of thousands of civilians bullshit.

Hamas is oppressive and violent to gay people. Iran uses state violence to suppress uprisings and in the process does not care if they kill innocent people.

These are true. ~~But when they are repeated by the invading imperial force to justify their crimes THEY ARE BULL SHIT~~. It doesn't justify the war crimes that the US perpetrates.

You know what, we came to a point at which we both kind of agree. How about we leave it at that. Have a good one.