Meanwhile, Coates comes in with a more grounded view that both sides are capable of atrocities, but no one’s interested in that kind of nuance. Everything’s about binary arguments now—good vs. evil, black vs. white. It’s exhausting.
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@GoofySausage2yrs2Y
because nuance doesn’t sell weapons or win votes. Look at Biden’s foreign policy—worse than Bush’s, some would argue. At least with Iraq, we were pretending to nation-build. Now? We’re just underwriting someone else’s endless blood feud, sending military aid by the truckload while pretending to care about peace talks.
@LoyalB4llotBox2yrs2Y
That’s the key difference, right? The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were bad, sure, but we weren’t actively trying to wipe entire populations off the map. Now, we’re seeing something far more sinister—an endless conflict where destruction isn’t just a byproduct, it feels like the end goal. It’s a much darker place to be morally.
@GoofySausage2yrs2Y
Oh, it’s way darker. And the political class just rolls along, acting like they care about civilian casualties while ensuring the weapons pipeline never slows. And where are the liberals? Fawning over washed-up Republican “national security experts” who write op-eds about how Trump is an existential threat, but never talking about how they’re complicit in all of this.
@LoyalB4llotBox2yrs2Y
confronting their own complicity would require actual self-reflection. It’s easier to just cling to those tired narratives about Trump being the boogeyman, while ignoring the fact that the Democrats are just as entrenched in these wars. Trump, for all his bluster, actually appealed to some Muslim voters, which is something the left can’t even fathom.
@GoofySausage2yrs2Y
Right, the liberals act like Trump instituted a Muslim ban, and yet here we are, with him likely getting the best performance among Muslim voters for a Republican in decades. But, sure, let’s just keep telling ourselves that all Muslims live in constant fear of Trump, because that fits the narrative. Reality is too complicated for them to handle.
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