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if a people holds certain actions to be reprehensible, then completely unironically, yes.


Reprehensible actions like cheerleading the invasion of Iraq, as the New York Times did in 2002-2003?


People of the wrong political orientation are now cheerleading the Russians in their invasion of Ukraine, so they are bad regardless of their current position on Iraq of 2002. Wrong/bad because of the suffering brought to the world.


Wait you mean those who think the US should meddle with it right?


Who decides what is reprehensible? Before you say "common sense" or "the Western global elites", think twice.


> ...who decides...

i do. you do. we do.

im not sure what people are looking for when they ask this absurd question. while this may not be the case with you, i suspect its usually asked in bad-faith by people who are trying to insinuate that all actions are equally (non)reprehensible--which is of course, nonsense.

we start with certain foundations, we hold that certain truths are self-evident. and we build from there.

wHo dEcIdEs!?! we do.


Okay then. I disagree with you.

Is the US government going to stop trying to put Julian Assange behind bars for 175 years now?


Who gets to decide what’s good and wrong?


The ones who don't violently storm the Capitol in an Insurrection (or incite it).




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