• TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Maybe he meant Iraq? I think Afghanistan taught us a lesson in what we’ve become. We were a country that could bomb another into the ground, but then rebuild it into a functional society. Regardless of the morals of that, japan and south korea are functional if unhappy. Unhappiness describes life, but I feel like the contracting on top of contacting and the line goes up profit obsession infected out zeitgeist so deeply, we are no longer capable of rebuilding what we destroy.

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      8 months ago

      Maybe did mean Iraq, but I’m not about to give a russiabot the benefit of doubt.

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        8 months ago

        I did mean Iraq. I am not a russian bot simply because I critisize our governments.

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          8 months ago

          If you’re called a Russian bot so often that you need to have a prepared meme response, I feel like it doesn’t matter if you are or are not a Russian propagandist.

          The cool thing about bad faith propoganda is that eventually, you trick dumb people into repeating it.

          Just look at COVID.

          • bumphot@lemy.lol
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            8 months ago

            It does matter if it is my honest opinion or if I was just wrongfully accused. One would be a critique of me, another is a critique on the propaganda that anyone who disagrees with people in power must be a KGB agent.

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      8 months ago

      Eh I don’t think we failed at nation building in Afghanistan because we’re incapable of it, but because we didn’t take the time to understand Afghan society and we weren’t putting enough resources towards construction.