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    This isn’t trump’s first time murdering children. People give Obama shit for the extrajudicial murder of Anwar Al-Awlaki, but nobody batted an eye when trump killed his 8 year old daughter a few years later.

    Plus all those kids he killed with Epstein, but we don’t get to see those files.

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        Nawar Al-Awlaki, a US citizen, was killed January 29, 2017 in a raid on an Al Quaeda training facility in Yemen along with as many as 29 other (Yemeni) civilians.

        From the article:

        The raid in Yemen was described as “risky from the start and costly in the end”; the “botched” operation raised questions about the choice to go forward with the raid “without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations”.

        Her father Anwar, also a US citizen, was killed by drone strike in 2011.

        People at the time criticized Obama for ordering the drone strike and killing a US citizen, which is valid and one of the great failures of his term, but Nawar’s murder was worse in every way and I only ever see it as a footnote.

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          Oh, I miss read it as Trump killed is (own) 8 year old daughter.

          Which was just plausible enough to bother posting to prompt for a source.

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            gonna be honest, if i were asking for a source on trump killing his own 8-year-old daughter it would be to verify, not dispute, the allegations. there are few depths to which he could sink that would surprise me

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            I mean, in the Epstein files there is supposedly anstory about Donald Trump killing his bastard newborn in front of the mother and then throwing it into Lake Michigan.

            So “just plausible enough” is more like “tame enough that it was Tuesday for him”

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              Yeah, I’d heard about that one. It’s only one step further to order a mob hit on your uppity 8yo illegitimate daughter (whole lot of assumption there).

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      She’s… not brown though. Like you see these two next to each other and can compare their complexions, right? Maybe you mean she’s not European White?

      She’s Iranian, born in a Muslim culture, belonged to the family of a Theocratic Dictator, a victim of the Trump regime, and her death will be ignored for all of those reasons. But that girl is white. As was the Ayatollah. As are most Iranians. They are as white as Jews are. Being white doesn’t stop other white people from victimizing you for all your other innate qualities though, nor from pretending you aren’t actually exactly as white at them.

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        Racism is epigenetic Calvinball. There are no consistent rules, and rules are changed on the spot to whatever helps racists feel like they are winning in the moment.

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        Weird fact I know as a South Africa, the Apartheid government racially classified Iranians as… white. I think it helped both being pariahs internationally and for the Apartheid regime to justify doing business with Iranians they had to be white.

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        You say all that as if any of the racist fucks of that administration understood something beyond “she’s from a country in the mid-east so she’s brown” to cathegorize her.

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          No, I say that as if you are the person who called her brown, not them. They are bigoted fucks, yes. But their bigotry is not exclusive to non-white people as you suggested. That both diminishes their actual bigotry and is so inconsistent with reality that you leave a very obvious defense to your criticism of their bigotry, both of which are counter-productive. They hate brown people, yes. They also hate anybody else that is different, brown or not.

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    He’s got that “shower me with the combined property value of a neighborhood of mcmansions worth of ordnance” face.

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    i’d love to see that smug face on the little fascist shit on the left get wiped off. He should love everything and be forced to serve in a soup kitchen for the rest of his life

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    How many Iranians have been butchered by Iranians?

    It’s like being called out by Jeffrey Dahmer.

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    I feel sorry for this dude in a way… It’s like he didn’t ask to be in the position he’s in right now… He’s wealthy but hated by a lot of people just because his dad is a horrible person.

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      He isn’t worth your pity. Plenty of kids related to elite, sociopathic scum have carved their own path. Hell, look at Ron Reagan Jr.

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      Never seen a single thing from him indicating he had any problem with his father. He’s old enough to have his own presence so that fact that he doesn’t indicates his complicity.