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Nice cherry pickin champ. You are a moron.

Edit: You edited your comment to add that last point to it then claimed I didn’t respond to the point… that you edited in after the fact. Double moron points for you.

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There should not be any period where the majority of Americans thought invading Iraq was a good idea. This part is what the problem is.

I notice you didn’t actually respond to my point, and then you got angry and started calling names.

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It doesn’t matter that public support shifted later - of course people feel bad about doing something bad after the fact. But at the time, most Americans did want you to be in Vietnam and most Americans did want you to be in Iraq.

You are treating Americans as a monolith. We don’t make the decision to go to war our government does then spews propaganda in the media and it can shift public opinion.

You posted two graphs with no sources and claimed that my statements were disproved when I never said “Americans never support war ever and if you can find a single instance of it happening for any period of time then everything I have said is wrong.”

I called you a moron because you cherry picked information from my statement then acted like it was self canceling.

There should not be any period where the majority of Americans thought invading Iraq was a good idea. This part is what the problem is.

What the fuck are you quoting? You never said that in your original comment.

Edit: ahhh you edited your comment. Originally you said “are you actually listening to yourself” or something similar then you edited it to that shit after I called you a moron for cherry pickin. Well now you are a moron for cherry picking and a moron for editing comments after replies.

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Well now you are a moron for cherry picking and a moron for editing comments after replies.

Thankfully Lemmy has timestamps. My comment was edited 5 minutes before yours was made, not after:

You seem to have a large chip on your shoulder and I’m not sure why. I haven’t said anything insulting to you, and yet the stream of vitriol continues.

You are treating Americans as a monolith.

I am not. The only thing I’ve done is respond to your claim that “most of us didn’t want to be in Vietnam, most of us isn’t didn’t want us to be in Iraq”, and let you know that it’s not factually correct. Most Americans did support both of those wars at the start.

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