If your response to being told the US empire constantly does far worse things than the Capitol riot is to shriek "STOP MINIMIZING THIS", then it is you who is trying to minimize the horrors of US imperialism. Obviously the Capitol raid was bad. Now look at US military slaughter.
I'm always trying to find new ways of pointing at the horror of western imperialism. Sometimes that gets me accused of being an agent of Putin or the CCP. Today it gets me accused of MINIMIZING A FASCIST COUP. In every case it's just westerners refusing to look at imperialism.
These "STOP MINIMIZING THIS" responses amount to nothing more than "Stop causing me cognitive dissonance!" Stop causing me the psychological discomfort of having to reconcile the self-evident fact you're pointing to with the belief I'm being fed that this is the worst thing ever.
And this is really what I'm trying to point to here. Everyone's attention is deliberately herded toward agendas which do not inconvenience the empire at all and away from imperialism. Anything we can do to fight that is good.
https://twitter.com/rahuliolito/status/1349487776664743937?s=20
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