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    The fact that our genocide of the natives happened hundreds of years ago is our of my control. Meanwhile, we are currently funding an ongoing genocide.

    These aren’t mutually exclusive either, you’re deflecting from our support for an ongoing genocide with this kind of rhetoric.

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      Do you think we’d react differently today? That’s a super straight forward question.

      If anyone anywhere, regardless of the horrific shit we visited upon them attacked a US territory and killed 20,000 people and took another 4,000 hostage, and we had a Donald Trump in office at the time, what would we do?

      This isn’t one of those, “Rules for thee, but not for me” kind of situations, is it? Because I’m not doing this to deflect things from Israel, I’m saying WE did it, so at bare minimum we have an obligation to protect the lives of the 20 million people we placed in a death-trap of our making.

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        About your made up scenario where Natives result to armed resistance in response to an ongoing genocide and decades of violent occupation? I don’t care, I would still support their emancipation. Yes, if people knew the full extent of what how we were treating them as subhumans, people would react differently.

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          9/11 was just my imagination I guess.

          Wait… no it wasn’t. We killed some 940,000 directly and our wars resulted in a cumulative loss of some 4.5 million people.

          What… Americans didn’t know we were mucking about in the middle east for decades?

          You think we wouldn’t do that now, if we lost ten times as many people?

          …With Donald Trump as president?

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            Dude, you’re all over the place. Yeah, I know Manufacturing Consent is a thing. I have literally never advocated for Donald Trump. I advocate for Democratic voters to demand more from their representatives, because that’s fundamental to a democracy