YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference
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Yes, after its 'journalists' had praised the USG into the skies for this attack. I will also note that no one was punished for this. It's like the Russians saying: "oops, I guess we did kill some innocent people, water under the bridge, amirite?"
If the American Empire is not an empire, the Roman Empire wasn't an empire, the Delian League was not an empire, the League of Corinth was not an Empire. Alliances are empires, particularly when there is one dominant partner.
They were absolutely wrong, as no one told him to go out and murder children and old men. An intentional, directed massacre on a scale that not even the current war propaganda has accused the Russians of - even Bucha was supposedly directed at military-aged men.
Show me where the Russians drove hundreds of civilians, including women, children and old men, into a ditch and offed them with machine gun fire.
And the Russians are not exactly known for their great regard for civilians.
Has anyone actually been convicted of that? Or is it another one of the hysterical Western claims about the Ruskies, like the imminent declaration of martial law and the murder of Shoigu?
Empires annex and control territories as their own. The American adventure with an empire started and ended with the Phillipines, granted independence after WWII (scheduled before WWII). Continued with Hawaii and PR if you want. Then you can be also retarded and say so about the continental USA (a textbook federation). But this is all.
Calley was told to kill. By his company commander (Captain Medina, who killed a woman personally after landing his command helicoper), probably relying orders from brigade commander (Henderson) through the battalion commander (Barker) who planned the attack on Pinkville together with field commander Medina. It wasn't also just his platoon, nor only just the Charlie Company, and it wasn't just one village. Maybe you should read about it sometime. Here's some from guess who: https://archive.ph/7l7sG
Besides that, for example https://armyhistory.org/my-lai/ (for a detail of Medina's personal acts: "Medina, however, always denied giving Calley any order to harm civilians. Later that day (he arrived in My Lai about 1100), Medina was himself involved in an unlawful killing when he fired his rifle and wounded a woman holding a small wicker basket. After he searched the basket and found syringes and other medical supplies, Medina shot the woman twice in the head.").
They just (in May) approved a new law, giving up to 15 years in prison for "false reporting" about the war.
You know an impressive amount about the 20th century. But less about the rest of history. This is not in fact how empires act. Annexation is a rarity. If you look at how many countries Napoleon annexed, it's quite few. Same for the Romans and the Athenians, who preferred alliances instead.
Ironically, I was talking to an American Ukraine supporter who assured me that the US had never taken lands from its neighbors. When I brought up the Mexican Cession, he got mad.
I will look into it further, but I believed that Calley was told in some general terms to kill enemies, and he decided to murder innocent civilians.
But even if this story is correct, it means that no one was ever held accountable for these crimes, which are worse than what the Russians are alleged to have done in Bucha.
This is strange. What point is there to this violence?
It is absolutely terrible that people are only allowed to have one opinion on the war in Russia. And same in Germany and the Czech Republic. As far as I know, none of these have yet persecuted dissenters on the war though.
Even when this helicopter pilot confronted an officer in the standoff it wasn't Calley there (as it's often misreported), it was 2nd Lt. Brooks of the 3rd Platoon who really wanted to "get these people out" with a grenade.
So Captain Medina was lying and he did want them all dead. Just like he shot this woman. (He was also accused of shooting a child but then a private took it on himself and so he was never even charged with it.) He saw things from the air, he saw things on the ground (including coming across a large group of bodies), but he only ordered ceasefire after the "helicopter mutiny" (my term I just invented).
So anyway, just I told you, anti-war crowd rightly perceived Calley as a scapegoat of a nasty war.
The literature on this is enormous. Here's one another for you to read: https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-whistleblowers-of-the-my-lai-massacre/ (yes, the name "My Lai" only existed on an American map).
So you say Calley was just following (illegal) orders, and nothing more?
But in any case. Let's say Calley was a scapegoat. It means no one was held accountable for these crimes against humanity. Friend-enemy applies to that as well.
Thanks. You really love the 20th century. Your mod note on the subreddit was 'very knowledgeable about the Holocaust', btw.