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by Erlangolem 3023 days ago
To this day, many are maimed and killed by US land mines in the region, and the US does not give a shit.

My point is that’s it’s incorrect to speak of 330 million diverse people as collectively not giving a shit. I stand by that.
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maxxxxx 3023 days ago
Then never talk about any other group like "the Chinese", "the Russians" or "the Nazis" again either. Because these are also millions of diverse people too.
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Erlangolem 3023 days ago
Then never talk about any other group like "the Chinese", "the Russians" or "the Nazis" again either. Because these are also millions of diverse people too.

One of those things is not like the other, two of those things are kinda the same. Nazism is an ideology, a movement, so I’m going to move past that red herring.

The rest though, good advice that I try very hard to live by. I’m not sure at what point you decided that I was arguing in favor of something else. It would be downright stupid to assume that the lives and views of someone raising ducks and pigs on a small farm in an outer province of Chins bears much resemblance to the life of a high-level beaurocrat in Beijing. Some teenager with no future or hope in the outskirts of Moscow isn’t like a grandmother in Novasibirsk, or an oligarch in a penthouse.

By the same token, don’t assume that the US is some magically homogeneous group of people who don’t care if a Vietnamese child is blown away by a 50 year old mine.

Edit: Because apparently it must be said, The US Governmemt != “The US” in the same way that the Chinese Communist Pary isn’t “China” and Putin isn’t “Russia”.

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stelonix 3023 days ago
You're suggesting there isn't an ideology moving the US government? Every country has an ideology, a doctrine or something like that, and independently of the sheer number and diversity of its population, what's ALWAYS discussed when someone mentions a country is its government and its policies, including foreign policies. You're bringing a no true Scotsman to the table, which is a fallacy. From its foreign policy on Vietnam, the US does not seem to "give a shit" as the OP said.
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