• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    My main point is that historically, there has been one particular political group in the United States which consistently does the worst shit possible to the rest of the world. Not saying they’ve never done anything good, not saying that they are the only group that has ever done bad shit. I am saying that it’s a pretty big stretch to say “both sides are the same, just look at this map” and then have 11 of the 12 listed examples being perpetrated by one group, and the 1 example by the other group is disinfo/misinfo. I think it brings serious question into the validity of saying “both sides are the same” and the validity of the document overall.

    Also, map was hard to read at a glance, when I said #8, I was referring to Honduras. I thought the numbers were a key of some sort, not a count of military interventions.

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      3 hours ago

      Both sides aren’t the same.

      They are both corrupt, anti-labor, and pro-capital though (in USA).

      They’re both so corrupt that they have legalized corruption. Bribery is blatant and open

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      and then have 11 of the 12 listed examples being perpetrated by one group

      Why are you focusing on who was president?

      The claim was: American Imperialism enjoys bipartisan support

      Your counterpoint was: that cant be true because some of these examples were during republican POTUS.

      That doesn’t mean anything. American Imperialism can still enjoy bipartisan support, even if the president is a republican.

      Take the DR in 1965, for example. LBJ was president, but his call to war was answered emphatically by both Democrats AND Republicans in the name of anticommunism. Do you seriously think that the fact that LBJ was president disproves that this meddling enjoyed bipartisan support?