• g0nz0li0@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    So the time and place to call Trump a corrupt, criminal fascist isn’t now? We should keep our criticism of him to just curren the current scandal? What purpose does this type of moderation serve in an open discussion?

    I would take your point of this was an article about Palestine and OP was being pro-israel, but at most it was a bit flippant.

    I’m not in the US. What gave you that idea anyway?

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      5 days ago

      So the time and place to call Trump a corrupt, criminal fascist isn’t now?

      That’s not what this is though and it’d be fine if that’s what it was. Instead, this is focusing on the one aspect of the event that only affects Americans without acknowledging that the USA just bombed another, potentially taking the lives of innocent peoole

      Edit: sort of just repeating my last comment in a different thread but imagine if the USA just bombed Ottawa, Canada and abducted Mark Carney, the PM of the country. Would you still just default to talking about the Epstein files?

      *edit 2: responding too quickly and didn’t catch that you’re not American

      • g0nz0li0@piefed.social
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        imagine if the USA just bombed Ottawa, Canada and abducted Mark Carney, the PM of the country. Would you still just default to talking about the Epstein files?

        Yeah and imagine if someone from Venezuela popped up to say “hey Fuck Trump, he invaded us too!” Is that a different thing they’re not allowed to talk about at that place and time?

        Plenty of people getting hurt by the Trump admin and feeling angry about it. In the end we’re all just saying fuck Trump here, what’s the problem?

        (Also arguing OP or I are too American or too somewhere else to understand your perspective is actually just demonstrating the behaviour you think you’re calling out).