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    3 months ago

    Compared to Americas victim count?

    https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

    SUMMARY

    Over 940,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence.

    An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting. Over 432,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting.

    38 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons.

    The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion.

    The U.S. government is conducting counterterror activities in 78 countries.

    At least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat.

    The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the U.S. and abroad.

    Germany actually took responsibility for what they did. The US is still pretending it does nothing but good. Several decades after WWII, the US still had official segregation.

    But you just won’t be able to admit a single flaw in the US or that it’s in an way comparable and/or worse than Nazi Germany was.

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        You know, when I was a kid, I used to wonder how Nazi Germany ever became a thing. How could it be that such unjust, illogical violence and hatred could ever manage to become the political norm.

        After a few decades of talking to Americans like you, I now found it very obvious.

        Do you think the Germans said “let’s commit atrocities” or do you think they also had excuses for theirs?

        “The war on terror” isn’t a traditional or indeed even an actual war.

        In 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote that propaganda’s

        “task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.”

        https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda

        Remind you of anything? Like screams of “America first! AMERICA FIRST”

        If you genuinely don’t see the similarities in 2020 America and 1920 Germany, you’re either ignorant or willfully ignorant.

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            Even better than I thought.

            Just like I said, you’re literally unable to recognise reality for what it is.