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orionsfyre t1_j9ll0t8 wrote

"I'm just asking questions"

Ah, the Tucker Carlson defense. You can bring up anything, no matter how evil, or heinous or disgusting... under the guise of "I'm just being intellectually curious."

Also to be fair, he wasn't asking anything, he literally floated the idea that dead kids were ultimately better for the economy. It's the ugliest possible answer to a question no one who has any humanity would ask.

You want to know if it matters who you vote for? Things like this make it clear why it matters.

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torpedoguy t1_j9lknh0 wrote

Of course it is. Any group left of fascism gets the full force of the US government thrown at it if it so much as espouses human rights or desegregation.

But not fascists. You can't even advocate for women's rights without brutality and criminal records, but when conservatives commit terrorism (stochastic or otherwise) nothing is done about their leaders. America never arrests MTG like it did MLK. America staunchly refuses to even ADMIT Tucker or Donald are just like Ayman (al-Zawahiri) or Bin-Laden, and easily more dangerous.

In fact its only problem with the attacks by the latter two is that they weren't Requblican, and therefore were rivals to the existing otherwise-identical far-right structure. We always, always stopped short when the far-right attacks; from allowing the confederacy's leaders to remain after the war, to declaring it would "be too partisan" to end the far-right threat in congress due to all of them being the same party.

  • Even when they assault the capitol, all they got was "okay enough for now, you're going too fast" and let them remain in power. Try again next time!

The United States government has been so terminally infested by reactionaries that its agencies and military's only real problem with ISIL or the Taliban... is that our leaders don't want competition.

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themimeofthemollies OP t1_j9ljof1 wrote

Unclear; but the government staunchly defends itself because the error was caught BEFORE the trains were built, not after:

“The government has, however, previously been at pains to insist that the errors had been spotted before any train was built, and that “not a single euro of Spaniards’ money has been wasted” as a result.”

“The situation would have been worse, it added, had smaller trains been built that had failed to live up to travellers’ expectations.”

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