• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The western brain can not understand that some people are simply willing to die for the cause because they have no cause except the accumulation of capital. And what is the accumulation of capital if you’re not alive to accumulate more of it?

    Not once in their entire lives have they ever considered that there are things worth dying for. Their highest belief is capital. They see no belief above it, and thus they can not even conceive of someone else holding beliefs that they would be ok dying for.

    They are at the peak of individualism and they will completely misunderstand their enemies because of it.

    che-cigar Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man!

    And what will it achieve? Nothing. Nothing at all. Yet another person who is completely willing to die will step into the role.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    mission-accomplished https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen

    From 2004 to 2009, he was a member of President George W. Bush’s speechwriting team, serving as chief speechwriter in the final years of the administration. Earlier, he was chief speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

    In 2010, Thiessen published Courting Disaster, a book defending the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which became a New York Times bestseller and drew significant criticism.

    He’s always there somewhere, somehow. He never left. dubya-paint brump

  • john_brown [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    That Vance, Kushner, and Witkoff are willing to go to Pakistan at an agreed-upon location is total proof that the US understands that Iran is their moral superior and will not simply murder them, unlike the US and their lackey, Israel. I still think Iran should blow those motherfuckers up just out of a sense of balance, but it wouldn’t improve anything for Iranians or anybody else. I just want that to happen.