Of course I am. It would be pretty silly to make the same (bad) argument
No, I mean you are no longer discussing Wildmimic’s comment or the point of the comic (which were both comparisons between how Russians and Americans ARE treated, in reality). You’re making a separate argument that is beside the point.
Do you think they are prepared to admit that the US has more freedom, because I sincerely doubt it.
If “they” is Wildmimic, they clearly did so in their original comment. That was the whole point of the comment, actually, that Americans were more free to protest.
Absolutely false. These foreign interventions are always extremely unpopular, including the topic at hand.
American support for the Iraq war was about 75% before it started and reached above 90% during the early days of the war. Arguing that foreign intervention is always unpopular in America is simply a denial of reality. As a general rule, Americans have been easily convinced to support these interventions unless they felt they were substantially personally affected in a negative way, as was the case (for example) during the later days of the Vietnam War or of the Iraq War.
You don’t think that MAGA is motivated by terror? Rural America is collapsing, and they have been taught to fear the cities their entire lives, not to mention the fact that they have no skills to get a job there, and no money to find a place to live. Russia has no monopoly on fear.
We can revisit this when MAGA has had to deal in living memory with rampant child prostitution and death due to poverty, as well as roving squads of nazis committing murder with impunity in the streets. To even compare the very real experiences of Russians in the 90s to the possible fears of Americans today is ridiculous. The 1990s caused 3 million excess deaths in Russia based on 1991 mortality. I’ve become convinced reading your reply that you don’t actually understand Russian history as well as you think you do.
There is no more Nazism in the US than anywhere else - at least until fairly recently.
First of all, the nazis were inspired in part by manifest destiny and American racism. Second, that line referred to Russia, not the US. It was Russia where nazi gangs acted with impunity in the 1990s under Yeltsin - who was installed with the help of the Americans, which they bragged about at the time.
(And it would be great if the Nazis weren’t all getting Russian funding).
This is just Russiagate nonsense. Your genocidal settler colony doesn’t need Russian influence in order to be racist (founded on slavery, which is still legal if you bother to charge the enslaved with a crime first), and whatever minor meddling Russians might or might not have done in recent developments (again, America has always been a white supremacist nation) did not have a significant impact, especially compared to domestic factors and even other lobbies such as the “Israelis” (another genocidal gem in the empire’s crown, which wouldn’t exist today if not for America). I think you and I are unlikely to find common ground because we see a fundamentally different version of your country.
No, I mean you are no longer discussing Wildmimic’s comment or the point of the comic (which were both comparisons between how Russians and Americans ARE treated, in reality). You’re making a separate argument that is beside the point.
If “they” is Wildmimic, they clearly did so in their original comment. That was the whole point of the comment, actually, that Americans were more free to protest.
American support for the Iraq war was about 75% before it started and reached above 90% during the early days of the war. Arguing that foreign intervention is always unpopular in America is simply a denial of reality. As a general rule, Americans have been easily convinced to support these interventions unless they felt they were substantially personally affected in a negative way, as was the case (for example) during the later days of the Vietnam War or of the Iraq War.
We can revisit this when MAGA has had to deal in living memory with rampant child prostitution and death due to poverty, as well as roving squads of nazis committing murder with impunity in the streets. To even compare the very real experiences of Russians in the 90s to the possible fears of Americans today is ridiculous. The 1990s caused 3 million excess deaths in Russia based on 1991 mortality. I’ve become convinced reading your reply that you don’t actually understand Russian history as well as you think you do.
First of all, the nazis were inspired in part by manifest destiny and American racism. Second, that line referred to Russia, not the US. It was Russia where nazi gangs acted with impunity in the 1990s under Yeltsin - who was installed with the help of the Americans, which they bragged about at the time.
This is just Russiagate nonsense. Your genocidal settler colony doesn’t need Russian influence in order to be racist (founded on slavery, which is still legal if you bother to charge the enslaved with a crime first), and whatever minor meddling Russians might or might not have done in recent developments (again, America has always been a white supremacist nation) did not have a significant impact, especially compared to domestic factors and even other lobbies such as the “Israelis” (another genocidal gem in the empire’s crown, which wouldn’t exist today if not for America). I think you and I are unlikely to find common ground because we see a fundamentally different version of your country.