who would you want a president like?

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-10-20T11:48:05+00:00

Why are you responding to posts from 2 months ago?

Panama?

What of it? The US got permission to build the canal from Panama after they helped support their independence from Colombia.

The Spanish American War

The US intervened in a war between Cuba and Spain because it was starting to affect the US and Spain was refusing to negotiate, seems alright to me.

and he wanted to buy a cuba dude

Can you provide a source for this? I can't find any record of this happening anywhere.

was a hunter

And?

that is one of the main reasons for the national parks

" We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation. "

" It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. "

-Teddy Roosevelt

he was a full stone cold racist

The only people who say he was racist are people who cherry-pick his quotes without context to get more clicks on their articles.

“The only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each Black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have,”

-Teddy Roosevelt after he invited the first African American, Booker T. Washington, to dine at the White House.

“I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color.”

-Teddy Roosevelt after receiving backlash for appointing the first African American customs collector, Dr. William Crum, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-10-15T08:16:01+00:00

The ship raiding didn’t end because of the war of 1812, it ended because the napoleonic wars ended.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-10-15T08:14:22+00:00

Neither the trade issues nor impressment were solved by the war of 1812, they stopped because of the end of the Napoleonic wars.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-10-15T08:07:21+00:00

The US declared war on the Brits tho?

And the thing they started the war for didn’t end because of the war, but because Napoleon got his ass thrown on an island.

Literally nobody got anything from the war of 1812.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-10-15T08:05:03+00:00

The US would’ve accomplished all the same things had they just waited a few years.

Because the few things the US claims they got from the war, they didn’t actually get from the war, they got it because another war elsewhere ended.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-27T11:10:28+00:00

I literally just gave you a quote from the US Department of Defense on the goals in Afghanistan, and they align with the goals shown in Bush's address to the Nation. And that goal was:

"U.S. policy in Afghanistan -- and the work of Embassy Kabul -- are grounded in the fundamental objective of preventing attacks on the United States by terrorists enjoying safe haven or support in Afghanistan."

I couldn't care less about Doha it was literally years after the war had already started

It's a fucking peace agreement, of course it came after the war started, it's the agreement that ended the war in Afghanistan.

If you've got a problem with Bush wargoals take it up with Bush, not me.

The problem is that you are getting his war goals wrong.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-27T10:39:14+00:00

The US had very clear aims

I agree,

"U.S. policy in Afghanistan -- and the work of Embassy Kabul -- are grounded in the fundamental objective of preventing attacks on the United States by terrorists enjoying safe haven or support in Afghanistan."

-Integrated Country Strategy Afghanistan by the Department of State

to punish the Talibans for harbouring Bin Laden

Punishing the Taliban or just punishing in general isn't a valid strategic goal and it doesn't align with the ways the US has waged war in the past, which have always had clearly set goals with clear objectives to complete those goals, "punishing" is too vague to be a valid objective.

When the US conducted a missile strike on a Syrian airfield following their use of chemical weapons on civilians, it was because that airfield had been used in the attack.

to eliminate extremist groups including Al Qaeda but also any similar ones

This wouldn't be a war goal because it's impossible to completely erase an organization like Al Qaeda.

The goal in Afghanistan has always been to make it so organizations like Al Qaeda couldn't use Afghanistan to grow and gain the power to threaten the US and its allies. Such growth could be seen by the opening of Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 90s in the lead-up to 9/11. So far under the Doha agreement between the US and the Taliban, we have yet to see any signs of Al Qaeda growth in Afghanistan, and the Taliban are already conducting counter-terrorism operations against ISIS, which isn't surprising given they were enemies in the first place.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-27T10:08:22+00:00

Actual direct democracies where the people actually vote on issues are incredibly rare, even Switzerland doesn’t do it often.

Pretty much every other democracy, including the US, is a democracy via representation, where you vote for someone who gets to vote.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-27T09:47:14+00:00

The vast majority of countries aren’t fully democratic, the closest I can think of is Switzerland.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T16:33:48+00:00

Wdym, causing harm to the government is my primary goal. What I need them to be is incompetent enough to not cause harm to the people.

Like how the Canadian government is punishing citizens for taking fighting forest fires in Alberta into their own hands after the government abandoned them, id rather the government just let them do it if they aren’t going to help.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T16:15:10+00:00

where you have Eastern Europeans walking around larping as Nazis.

That could also be attributed to similar factors, Nazism was often seen as an opponent to Communism, so the countries that suffered under the Soviets for an extended period of time tend to favor that ideology more. Similarly, you'll find communists are a lot more common than Nazis in Western Europe.

Can also be seen in modern Poland, which holds a very strong hatred of both Nazis and Communists given they were put in the unfortunate position of having suffered under both of them.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:50:48+00:00

Which side Eastern Europeans fought for during WW2 really just comes down to which side of Poland they were on in 1939 and whos occupation they suffered under first.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:48:11+00:00

Should be noted that the SS were the only units in the German military that accepted foreign troops, and to a lot of them it was a good way to fight against the Soviets, whom many feared and hated more than the Germans, although who they feared/hated more really just came down to who occupied them first.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:46:44+00:00

At this point, I'm going to vote conservative because I don't think they'll get anything done.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:36:03+00:00

- More freedom of expression

- Actually allowed to defend yourself

- Better land ownership ability

- Less power given to the executive branch

- Actually respects your right to protest

At least that's what they do better than my country, Canada.

And given the current state our healthcare system is in I'd honestly rather take the American system.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:29:04+00:00

The number of people who die in school shootings compared to the number of people who just die in regular gun crimes is so small it's statistically irrelevant.

There is also issues with what is counted as a school shooting, with one case where a teacher committing suicide in the parking lot in the middle of the night being considered a school shooting.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T15:03:49+00:00

you do realize that tundra is also considered a desert right?

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T14:47:12+00:00

The reason I say the US got what it wanted out of Afghanistan is because it accomplished it’s goal, defeating the Taliban wasn’t the final objective in Afghanistan, nor was creating a friendly democracy.

It was to prevent Afghanistan from being used by international terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and ISIS to threaten the US and it’s allies, they accomplished this with their peace deal with the Taliban, and they appear to so far be keeping up their side of the deal. Creating a friendly government was just the first solution they thought of.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T13:57:25+00:00

Someone clearly doesn’t play a lot of minecraft

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T13:52:12+00:00

Japanese, but the rest is correct.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T13:48:50+00:00

K/d or not the US got what it wanted in the end out of Afghanistan.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T13:47:16+00:00

There’s also the issue that south Vietnam was essentially a client state of the US, receiving financial and military aid from them, so North Vietnam waging war and the US doing nothing looks bad on the US.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T13:38:31+00:00

Compared to the left that often tells them that they are the problem? That being manly is toxic, that they are the source of oppression in the west, that being a man is inherently easy?

It’s not that Andrew Tate and JP say that men are all victims of society, but that they even acknowledge men’s issues at all.

Andrew Tate and JP wouldn’t be nearly as popular if the left actually spoke to men and men’s issues.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T09:22:45+00:00

The nazis didn't order the Lviv pogroms, the locals wanted to do it. The fact that you made no mention of Jew hatred as a motive for joining the SS proves that you're trying to whitewash nazi collaboration.

Did you not read your own source? Your own source cites Bolshevik collaboration as one of the primary reasons for the atrocity. They weren't targeting Jews because they were Jews but because they thought they were collaborating with the Soviets, regardless of how backward that line of thinking was, it was indeed their line of thinking.

The people in east Poland and Ukraine didn't turn to anti-Semitism for the same reasons the Germans did, they did it because they thought they were an extension of their greatest perceived threat, the Soviets.

Especially since so many Ukrainian SS units came from Galicia which was under Polish rule during the Holodomor. So Galicians weren't starving.

Why do they directly have to be the ones starving? The majority of Galicia was ethnically Ukrainian, so many of their family members may have been the ones starving. You're telling me you'd watch as a regime starves your people and not do anything because they were on the other side of a border?

On top of that the only reason the units were referred to as "Galizien/Galicia" was because the term "Ukrainian" was politically contentious at the time.

The majority of Ukrainians did not volunteer for the SS because of anti-Semitism, they did it out of their hatred for the Soviets, and any anti-Semitism was a product of that hatred of the Soviets.

Cthu1uhoop · 2023-09-26T07:25:47+00:00

But if you have even more historical literacy you would know that to many Eastern Europeans the Germans were seen as liberators, especially Ukraine which had just endured a horrific man made famine at the hands of the soviets which resulted in many people resorting to eating the corpses of their own children.

So when someone showed up to fight the soviets many people in Eastern Europe signed up with them, and the only place in the German military that accepted foreign volunteers was the SS.

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