• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    JFC. It’s almost like Biden is trying really hard to lose the election.

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      9 months ago

      Because letting shitheads affect a major shipping route and cause another supply shortage and more inflation will surely win him it!

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        9 months ago

        You do realize that there’s another way to make them stop doing it, don’t you?. That other way also has the side effect of murdering significantly fewer innocent Palestinians. It would also act to prevent the conflict from spreading regionally.

        I realize that retraining Israel would deny us Americans our dead brown people high, but come on, think of all the inflation we could prevent by not killing them.

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          That’s a mighty huge brush you’re painting 300+ million with, skippy.

          Unfortunately, those types of people never stop. They would immediately see that as a major sign of weakness and would expand on the attacks, targeting more ships over a larger area. Any hoo, those ass hats are now toast, so any sympathy you have for them might as well be vaporized with them.

          • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            It worked so well in Afghanistan, might as well repeat it in Yemen

            Unfortunately, those types of people never stop.

            And we’ll never stop as long as you are all the way over here. As if attacking us would do anything except motivate us to resist. What a racist and chauvinist world view.

            The US aids Israel in its genocide, and our resistance is the problem. What a lopsided logic but whatever. Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

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              9 months ago

              Your “resistance” consists of kidnapping Filipino crewmen. Truly a bastion against US tyranny

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                9 months ago

                And your western world “defense” consists of years of continuing crimes against humanity and genocide. Truly the leaders of human rights and freedom

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                  9 months ago

                  You must’ve responded to the wrong comment, I never said anything about defence.

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                  9 months ago

                  They’re not clear at all lmao. They attack whatever vessel they want and then find a flimsy connection to Israel after the fact.

                  The Houthis, on the other hand, were very clearly warned. They are free not to attack and kidnap cargo ships, otherwise they are free to get bombed. They have chosen the latter option.

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                    So seizing ships supplying a genocidal regime is worse than genocide? When will the “international community” bomb Israel for its genocide in Gaza?

                    I’m not going to complain much since it is pointless and we wanted to bait the US into another decades-long and losing war after all. Your comments remind me of what people were saying during the early days of the war on Afghanistan in 2001, we all know how it ended. Doing the same thing somewhere else and expecting a different outcome is a sign of craziness. If you think the US will have any outcome that it can call a win then you are just as delusional as the people who thought the US would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq and Afghanistan.

                    Then again, people like you are just looking to satiate their blood lust, and don’t care if the US repeats its losses a la Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. But I ask you this, unless you are under 30, do you remember how it was in 2001? do you think you are better off today?

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      It’s actually super based to blow up terrorists attacking container vessels.

      You can either shut the fuck and removed about inflation (which is driven up by Houthi attacks) or you can go on a weird demand for a ceasefire but acknowledge paying higher prices for goods is a necessary side effect of allowing Houthis to terrorize shipping lanes.

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        So your entire argument is founded on the assumption that Ansar Allah is not the legitimate government of Yemen. That, just because they have de jure independence over a territory, they lack de facto independence because the territory is still contested by a government-in-exile.

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        It’s actually super based to blow up terrorists attacking container vessels.

        It is if you swallow the US imperialist propaganda happily and greedily.

        Anyone that’s not a useful idiot, sees it a bit different.

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          9 months ago

          Congratulations on bringing up a subject we weren’t talking about to say something the comment author clearly wasn’t saying.

          Go you.

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      Because stopping terrorists attacking ships from all over the world is a bad thing he’s done?

      Like I hate the guy, but this is probably one of the few instances of the broken clock being right.

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        I don’t really get it, what’s even to “hate” about Biden in the first place?

        People trash on him for ending the war in Afghanistan, because I guess we’re all supposed to act surprised that the Taliban just walked right back in and took power even though that’s what every expert was saying was going to happen even before the war started. Last time I checked, we all wanted the forever wars in Iraq and Afganistan to end.

        Republicans trash him for giving arms and spending money on Ukraine, even though they’re the victim of Russian imperialist aggression.

        People trashed on him for not calling for a ceasefire on Hamas, until he did call for it and it happened, after which people trashed on him because the war just started back up because neither Hamas nor Netenyahu were willing or able to back off. Biden didn’t start the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor was he the first or only US President to arm Israel (who are one of our only allies in the area), nor did he move the pieces that initiated this round of post-Oct 7th fighting, so it’s frankly the world’s biggest stretch to blame him for it.

        And so now people want to trash on him for bombing the Houtis, who are terrorists who have been openly pirating ships on key global trade routes, and who have been warned multiple times that they would face retaliation if there were to continue doing it. We basically told these Houti morons “fuck around and find out” and now they’re finding out so we all have to pretend to have bleeding hearts for him.

        “Hating” Biden while the very real specter of Trump looms over the 2024 election is just nonsense to me.