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Hewasawizard 21 points ago +22 / -1

It’s almost like when you indiscriminately massacre civilians of a foreign country, including bombing schools, hospitals and weddings, and then even your shoddy justification turns out to be a lie, they like, don’t take it very well.

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tabularasa_556 18 points ago +18 / -0

It's too bad they're taking it out on random people at grocery stores instead of the people responsible for those decisions.

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Hewasawizard 16 points ago +16 / -0

I hear you, there. Not excusing the shooter, obviously, but this is what happens. Bin Laden cited US atrocities in his own home country when he carried out 9/11. He said that he wanted us to suffer like his people had suffered. Of course, this justification was never disclosed widely to the public because “they hate us for our freedom” just sounded so much better! Of course, they knew that the continued involvement in the MENA would create more terrorists, and they embraced it, because they could justify the surveillance regime they created in the wake of 9/11.