• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      Even worse.

      Their toy soldiers are real people. Most people know someone somehow that’s in the military

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        They’ve been blowing up fishermen from afar as a test run for playing with these ”toys”. They don’t care.

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      It’s looking for its Florsheim shoe that used to be there. It was a couple of sizes too big, so it fell off during flight.

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    The US Americans are so screwed. Just take a look at Russia if you want to see the future of the US. Widespread poverty, endless war, crony capitalism with a strong and untouchable oligarchy, all ruled by an incompetent but brutal dictator and his loyalists. At least Russia has history and an intellectual class, the US is devoid of anything grounding it. It’s going to be an unending clown show of horrors.

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      Believe me. If Trump was as competent as Putin we’d be fucked even faster. His sheer incompetence was the chance given to the american people, but most of them are on the same level.

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      lol you think he US doesn’t have an intellectual class? Just one big country of dummos, huh? The portrayal of the US and the shape of our leadership definitely makes it seem that way but there are a massive number of intellectuals in the US. The current admin is trying to drive them out (or at least inadvertently doing so), but they are certainly a reality. Funnily enough, a huge number of them are first or second gen immigrants because the intellectually inclined would come here for the school and the opportunities.

      Don’t conflate the caricature with the character.

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      look at Russia if you want to see the future of the US. Widespread poverty, endless war, crony capitalism with a strong and untouchable oligarchy, all ruled by an incompetent but brutal dictator and his loyalists.

      The future of the US? That’s the present! The future is much worse because of the massive concentration/death camps being constructed.

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      Just take a look at Russia if you want to see the future of the US. Widespread poverty, endless war, crony capitalism

      uhhhh

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        Yeah, yeah, “but that’s the present!”. That’s the problem with Americans: you think you’ve seen poverty and state violence, but you have not. There are levels of misery that most of you couldn’t even imagine. But you won’t have to for much longer, MAGA is taking you there.

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      If Russia has widespread policies, I wonder how sanctions have contributed to it?

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      War eagle. It’s a nod to wartime Colonel insignia, during war the eagle faces the arrows during peace it faces the olive branch.

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        It doesn’t change directions during war. It always faces the olive branch, to show a commitment to uphold peace during peacetime, and a hope to return to peace during wartime. But the arrows are always held, as a symbol of the capacity for force when necessary. Maybe it used to switch sides? But it has always faced the olive branch since at least the end of WW2.

        That “it has always faced the branch” thing is a large part of why the branch being absent is so jarring. Now it’s just facing… An empty foot? And it is extremely concerning, because it shows a marked shift in imagery from the regime. They’re not just posting dog whistles and pretending they don’t know… They’re actively abandoning established symbolic images in favor of more aggressive ones.

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        It’s not changed during war or peace.

        It carries arrows to show readiness for war and faces the olive branch to show a preference for peace, since it was modified by Truman in 1945.

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          1951 and they are no longer approved for use yet they are still called war eagles and that’s what they’re evoking.

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      FDR threw 100,000 Americans into concentration camps. Idc what conservatives think of him, fuck that guy.

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          And in your opinion that excuses seizing innocent people’s property and throwing them in concentration camps?

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            I didn’t say that, and I don’t believe that, so don’t put words in my mouth.

            The detainment of the Japanese was unconscionable, and easily the biggest mistep of FDR’s career, but he did a LOT of things right for America and the World, and on balance his good FAR outweighed the bad.

            FDR’s was the strongest supporter of labor that this nation has ever had, and his New Deal was the best Worker-oriented program in history. Because of his support of labor and unions, we got all the workplace protections that we have today:

            FDR’s labor reforms, primarily enacted through the New Deal (1933–1938), established federal rights for workers, including the first national minimum wage, a 40-hour workweek, child labor bans, and the right to collective bargaining. Key legislation included the Wagner Act (1935) for unionization and the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938).

            Do you think we got things like paid vacations, sick days, and 8 hour work days because the generosity of Corporations? No, we FORCED them to recognize workplace health/safety/environmental regulations, and treat workers like humans instead of animals, or machines, to be exploited to death, and discarded, and FDR was the president that championed all that, and made it happen.

            And don’t forget, he also established Social Security, so we don’t have an Army of old people camping in our streets of every American city.

            Then after all that, FDR won WWII, and kept us all from having to learn to speak German and/or Japanese.

            So yeah, out of four terms, in which he set American workers on a dignified path for their daily labor, and saved the world from one of the most psychotic nations in the history of the world, he made one bad mistake by succumbing to the fears of the nation during one of our darkest periods. While it should always be acknowledged as a serious mistake, it should never fully define his entire legacy.

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                He was as far from that system as an president has ever been. He was strongly pro-Labor, pro-Union, pro-Worker. He created Social Security and the modern American social safety net.

                Conservatives hated him, and there was even talk of a coup by the business interests.

                He is the closest we’ve had to a Democratic Socialist, and America, and the World would be much better off if his style of Democrat had become the trend, instead of the Republican Lite bullshit we ended up with.

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              I didn’t say that, and I don’t believe that, so don’t put words in my mouth.

              Ok, but

              he did a LOT of things right for America and the World, and on balance his good FAR outweighed the bad.

              The very next paragraph, and the rest of the post, is essentially “I said that, and I believe that”.

              Pointing out that he also did things you like is justifying the atrocities he committed. If a man throws people into concentration camps that’s the only thing we should ever talk about when his name comes up. There’s no coming back from that. Your attitude is giving me “Mussolini made the trains run on time” vibes.

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                I never said that anything “excuses” the mistake of the Japanese Internet camps. I said that they should be acknowledged as the horrific mistake that it was, but ON BALANCE, he was a highly successful president, even with that black mark. That’s not excusing it, it is treating history responsibly, and not trying weaponize it to advance an agenda.

                Millions died fighting in WW2, or were gravely wounded, and many were draftees, like my father-in-law, who didn’t want to go, but were forced to. Many, many American families made terrible involuntary sacrifices for the war, and unfortunately, the Japanese were forced to contribute to the war by their involuntary internment.

                It wasn’t the best situation, but considering the sacrifices that many Americans made, it wasn’t the worst either. The Japanese internment camps weren’t pleasant, but they weren’t Auschwitz either. Families weren’t being separated as they came off the trains, with some sent to work, and the rest to the gas chambers. I’m sure there were many Americans actually fighting on the front lines of the war that would have been happy to be in an interment camp back in America, rather than having German bullets whizzing by their heads in the Battle of the Bulge or Okinawa.

                You are concerned with 100,000 that were wrongfully interned, instead of the millions of lives that were saved by the war, and the Japanese internment was considered a necessary step in the fast-moving preparations for the war. They worried about how deep any Japanese government influence might have reached, and they couldn’t wait to find out when a spy sabotaged their war efforts, so they took a broad stroke to avoid it. Whether that decision was right or wrong, it was a different war, and a different time, and applying your contemporary attitudes to history, without properly considering the historical context, is lazy historical thinking.

                Unions, Labor, Social Security, Employment Reforms, End of Child Labor, workplace Health/ Safety/ Environmental regulations, etc. have improved, and even saved, the lives of millions of people, including you and literally EVERYONE you know, and yet you would surrender all of it, because the president who did all that, made a mistake during the worst war in human history.

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                  Apparently the difference between you and I is that I don’t believe there’s room for a “yeah, but…”. I don’t believe in weighing the good and the bad when it comes to evil people.

                  I don’t care if he passed social security. I don’t care if he sold Stalin and Churchill the weapons they needed to win WW2. I don’t care if he cured cancer, cholera, and the common cold. Just like I don’t care that Hitler built the Autobahn. He’s still fucking Hitler.

                  FDR illegally seized the property of 100,000 Americans and threw them in concentration camps based solely on their race. End of legacy. Fuck FDR and get his fascist ass face off my dime.