• GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Rhetoric aside though, since Iraq isn’t sending 2 Senators to Congress, I would have gone with the route of

    “No, we just installed a friendlier government with a constitution we wrote, totally different”

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      Lots of parts of the American empire don’t get to send senators, like Puerto Rico and DC. Iraq is brown enough that even if we had annexed it officially we’d have done so in a nonvoting kind of way

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        They do actually send Senators, but they don’t vote. I think that it would be harder in the present day (maybe less so now with the number of reactionary judges, but American judicial precedent had been trending since the 60s to be more democratic and free for people until the 90s) to pull off another American Samoa.

        I say this because there are Trump-appointee judges reviving long-defunct legal precedents to support their ideological crusade to reshape America from some semblance of a liberal democracy into a fascist dictatorship – citing decisions upholding the Japanese Exclusion Act to uphold laws like Florida’s that ban Chinese people from buying property.

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      A more honest and direct rhetorical shortcut would be “we’re turning Iraq into another Japan”. US written constitution, controlled friendly government, military occupation. The works.

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        Wow, factually accurate rhetoric that still effectively conveys why something is wrong? Nothing like proving someone doesn’t need to rely on oversimplistic hyperbole to make a point.