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GOP Congressman Says Dead Palestinian Babies Aren’t All That Innocent
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Not that this is at all the point of any of this, but yes we very much fucking would, and did. Ministers in the UK government pushed back against Churchill's desire to bomb German civilians in retaliation for the bombing of London, saying it would "put us on the same plane morally as they are." Eventually of course there was bombing of non-military targets in Germany, including the infamous firebombing of Dresden, and the British war government faced some fiery criticism at home because they were killing innocent people, and many of the British people understood that deliberately killing innocent people isn't a part of legitimate war strategy, whatever it is that the guilty people were doing that you're "retaliating" for.
Yeah but we're talking about the US here and uhh....
Inconspicuously steps in front of footage of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
You fool, that footage is playing on a projector! Stepping in front of it merely made it larger and displayed it on your chest and penis.
So that's why the kids are calling it a mushroom cloud these days!
No step out of in front of it so people can learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them
I think it's also worth pointing out the inherent falseness of the analogy. They were innocent German civilians, not Nazi civilians. By equating Germans with Nazis, Mast is equating Palestinians with Hamas.
LordHardThrasher has been doing an excellent series on YouTube on the failures of the Allied bombing campaign, and why it shows democracies are better than dictatorships.