Fuck. I have read so much of this kind of shit

[la_vie_noire]

I'm so, so, so incredibly, infinitely TIRED of reading USA's left about Osama Bin Laden's assassination. Seriously: "this just makes us exactly like those people we are fighting!"

Uhm. No. Your country have bombed, ruined countries. Economically terrorized and exploited the developing world.

Whatever you do, I don't think there is a single Nation that can compare to you right now. This just shows you can do whatever you want in any country in the world without any consequence whatsoever.

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[yeloson]

Yep. We passed the "whole violating rights and sovereignty" mark a long, long time ago.

Of course, no one wants to think about how they got those mangos or coltan for their new iPad.

[la_vie_noire]

Ahahahaha, pretty, pretty much!

[onyxlynx]

This awoke the sort of complicated thinking about what the politicians seem to think is the US view of its historical place, the "left's" somewhat simplified view of the US, the Bigger Bully theory, and why imperialism has always been a Really Bad Idea.

Which turned into a Mandelbrot diagram in very short order.

I suspect the "left" can see the Biggest Bully aspect, but they think the Biggest Bully can be moved by an appeal to conscience. And then the analogies fall down and I need to write this out, don't I?

That assassination makes the USA like the Mafia or the drug cartels. That's what it does.

[la_vie_noire]

That assassination makes the USA like the Mafia or the drug cartels. That's what it does.

Yeah, but in its past, I don't think it has acted so very differently from this. *coughs*hundreds of assassinations of Presidents in poorer countries who went against their policies, very representative, Salvador Allende*coughs* Just that now they did it publicly and with pride.

[onyxlynx]

Embracing the inner Caligula, as it were.

[parlance]

Just that now they did it publicly and with pride.

Basically.

[colorblue]

Yes, this.

[la_vie_noire]

:)

[stoneself]

usa's history:
- genocide
- slavery
- imperialism
- only use of nuclear bombs on any population (complete unnecessarily at that)
- banana republics
- puppet governments
- exporting pollution
- hogging all kinds of natural resources
- etc etc etc

[la_vie_noire]

Pretty much.

[buria_q]

ew, i haven't kept up with mainstream reactions. tho i have heard some of those "USA! USA!" chanting crowds got menacing and racist.

[la_vie_noire]

MAN! You made me remember that I was about to say something about the most popular critic to those crowds that went something like, "but now we are just acting like THOSE people!"

Man. As if you "superior" culture of course makes you better.