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      but that would lead to a nation closer to nazi germany than where it sits currently, which i feel like everybody would agree is a bad thing

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          We are currently WORSE than Nazi Germany

          an insane proposition

          you wouldn’t be able to type that, were you actually in nazi germany, without fear of retribution

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            We have committed more genocide and are currently more fascistic than Nazi Germany.

            But it’s good to know you don’t consider Palestinians, Latinx immigrants, Sudanese residents, or the many, many demographics we exploit for our economic well-being to be worth your consideration. I’ll categorically disregard anything you say from now on. My bad.

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              We have committed more genocide

              by what metric?

              total number of genocides participated in, maybe…?

              but the state isn’t building death camps, and if you compare the death toll in Palestine to those in Nazi Germany it’s a stark difference

              exploiting workers to death for economic benefit is very objectionably inexcusable, but by definition not genocide, and by attempting to reposition it as such you’re lessening the definition of genocide rather than helping the plight of those abused by capitalism

              yes, i think allowing the machine of capitalism to churn through lives incidentally is at least marginally better than building a machine specifically designed to churn through as many lives as possible in as short a window as possible

              very obviously neither should be happening at all, and the fact either is is frankly disgusting, but you were the one who decided to directly compare them

              and are currently more fascistic than Nazi Germany.

              again, the fact you’re able to type this is proof that it’s false

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                  And you are denying the genocide that’ll happen to those indigenous you propose are going to somehow take over the country.

                  1. The military. There is at least one greedy general out there that’ll attack with our trillions worth of weapons research.
                  2. The nature of the indigenous communities. Okay, so you’re giving them to “the Native Americans”. I’m assuming that means all of them? Look at this infograph. They occupy less than 10% of USA’s land and are spread out incredibly sparsely. If you just give it to one of them, well, that actually would solve a problem. But which one will you give it to? Is the Fox nation racially superior to the Sioux nation? If you give it to all them, they will have to effectively communicate, which is undercut by
                  3. The nature of the indigenous communities. Quite a bit of these communities have been recognized by the government as wards of the state and have been isolated by mutual consent. Now you’re gonna entrust someone to hand them modern communications, weapons, tools, etc and not use these technologies to take power away from the indigenous instead. How exactly do you propose a power transfer to happen?
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                    OK so what is your problem with returning the land and power to indigenous groups? You surely don’t support the United States of America with its history of genocide, slavery, imperialism, and colonialism? Surely you would celebrate the downfall of a state worse than that of Nazi Germany whose most progressive leader (by its own adminission) is a genocide-supporter and border fascist. fascist.

                    Surely the Indigenous groups wouldn’t be worse than the blue or red ghouls?

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                  Native Americans

                  Latinx immigrants

                  Palestinians

                  Sudanese

                  Jewish people

                  Working class people

                  Asian people

                  Many Central and South American groups

                  You are being ignorant by asking “by what metric” for a nation founded on genocide

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                    Jewish people

                    you’re comparing the us’s genocide to nazi germany and jewish people were the ones you chose to bring up?

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              Are you and your neighbors being dragged into vans in broad daylight to be forced to participate in a pogrom?

              Things are bad, I won’t discredit that. Bad things are being done, I won’t discredit that either. But this sensationalism without basis in historical context is what makes progressives look like lunatics. Language matters, how you address things matters. Just throwing around terms devalues them, and their meaning, and the history behind them.

              These are geo-political issues of our times, but there have always been issues and disagreements between the governing body and the populace. Take the Spanish Civil War and the support/dissent that occurred in the US. Don’t just throw terms like Nazi around casually and say “Nazi this, Nazi that.” There are definitely American Nazis today, and those pieces of shit aren’t hiding very much anymore, but Nazi Germany we are not… Yet.

              As to the point of the previous commenter, you are able to say this in the open with no fears of reprisal. You couldn’t do that in, let’s say, modern China or North Korea or Russia. I would argue that these nation states are more aligned with the overt/brutal fascism/Nazi-ism directed at their own populace and their communities abroad that you say America is currently.

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                  Have you sold all your worldly possessions to donate to their causes? If you value your own life and comfort so little, why aren’t you over there as an aid worker/missionary? Do you volunteer in native areas? How are you serving these communities by spouting bullshit and arguing with people online?

                  All I’m seeing right now is a whole bunch of virtue signaling, which isn’t even good enough to wipe my ass with. Get out there and serve the greater good instead of being petty on the internet, or shut the fuck up.