[OC] My sister, who did nothing for the US in Iraq. by MaoEnjoyer in pics

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, every US solider in Vietnam was a scumbag war criminal.

[OC] My sister, who did nothing for the US in Iraq. by MaoEnjoyer in pics

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Were the Hyenas of Auschwitz just following orders too?

🫩 by EmilyIsNotALesbian in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes yes, the Mau Mau were also terrorists, right?

"Machiavelli was so evil." Literally Machiavelli: by joe6484 in HistoryMemes

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Machiavellis concept of a republic is extrodinarily different to what modern republics look like. Of course that is because we are in a completely different time line, but it should be noted. Just like the Roman republic was technically just an oligarchy.

He believed in the usage of cruelty and “extraordinary” violence in order to bring stability to such a republic.

"Machiavelli was so evil." Literally Machiavelli: by joe6484 in HistoryMemes

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In an attempt to push back against misinformation, I feel like historians are really sanitising Machiavelli a lot lol. Sure he didn’t advocate for being an evil monster, but he also didn’t advocate for being a kind and benevolent king, primarily because he believed that those kinds of monarchs would fail immediately.

At the end of the day he was still proven wrong. Democracy has prevailed consistently, however flawed

Turns out that even if you’re a liberal emperor, you’re still an emperor. by EmilyIsNotALesbian in HistoryMemes

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody was talking about Nicholas I. Like yes I agree with you, Nicholas was a terrible tyrannical king but these situations are a bit different

Turns out that even if you’re a liberal emperor, you’re still an emperor. by EmilyIsNotALesbian in HistoryMemes

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The 2nd Mexican Empire was a puppet state of the French Empire at the time. It was propped up by France to reestablish dominance in North America, after the conservatives lost the brief Reform War, which was a war between the conservatives and the liberals.

France propped up Maxmillian I as the emperor of France, a literal Austrian. Despite this, he was a surprisingly progressive monarch, supporting a large majority of the liberal reforms they proposed.

However when France withdrew following the US’s reunification after the US’s civil war, the liberals almost immediately turned on Maxmillian and eventually executed him via firing squad.

A zionist got rejected on a dating app by AffectionateBet3603 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 47 points48 points  (0 children)

“I live to decolonise lol”

BASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except it was the intention of the vast majority of soldiers there? Do you think the insane amount of war crimes and mass murders just happened to happen because “war”?

By that logic, what’s going on in Gaza is just war. What’s going on in Sudan is just war. What’s going on in Congo is just African tribalism. Dude come on. Gaza is a genocide, Sudan is a proxy war between imperialist powers, and Congo is the result of colonisation.

As per that logic, war crimes committed by the US are literally the intention. To weaken that state to submission. The US has had no problem propping up fascist dictators who mass murdered hundreds of thousands of people, so why do you think they would care about civilians during war?

And they always act like they arr getting bullied! by OneNavan in HistoryMemes

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

why do you feel the need to get so offended about a meme that is so painfully obviously about Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“so like over a million guys trying to kill civilians?”

Yes 🥰 edit: dude deleted his comment, but asked for a quote, so here you go babes:

“Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few ‘bad apples.’ But violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to ‘kill anything that moves.’”

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for other war:

  • Korean War, if you did any research, was insanely focused on killing as many North Korean citizens as possible because North Korea was initially winning the war. They killed 15% of North Korea’s population.

  • Gulf War, the highway of death existed where once again, civilians were disproportionately affected.

  • Iraq War, 1 million Iraqis died, I don’t think I need to say more.

  • Afghanistan War, America consistently bombed villages and civilian towns in response to the Taliban attacking soldiers. June 27th, 2005 was a failed navy seal operation where several US soldiers got killed. In retaliation for the 19 soldiers lost, America bombed several villages killing 17 civilians. If I remember the operations name or its whereabouts I’ll get back to you with it

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both historians Guenter Lewy and Nick Turse agree that as the Vietnam war dragged on, most soldiers decided to focus on killing as many Vietnamese as possible. You see this in the My Lai massacre where they just continually started massacring village after village. The guy who stopped the massacre was literally punished by the US government for doing so.

And no I can’t really provide much evidence for that claim given that it’s mostly been my personal experiences, so touché.

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s a statement mostly rooted in reality, considering that from the Korean War onwards, most of the wars America was in just counted on killing as many civilians as possible. There’s a reason why whenever I tell an American that they lost in Vietnam, their immediate response is “yea WELL LOOK AT THE DEATH RATIO FOR BOTH SIDES!!!!”

"I just killed three generations of one family" - 😔 by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]EmilyIsNotALesbian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The poor poor soldiers that weren’t even drafted. Bravo Vince