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    6 months ago

    Canada

    Canada is just as bad, and not just the basic stuff like poisoning their drinking water and the state stealing children. Ask an old first nations person to tell you about the history, things like starlight tours and child abduction that make it into the official narrative is just the tip of the ice burg.

    But Canada or Europe pressuring America would be completely different, since Canada or Europe aren’t using it to make their population more accepting of sanctions, bombing, or invasion of America.

    We’re pretty powerless against our government

    That’s true, but we’re infinitely less influential of other governments. Mohammed Mokhber isn’t gonna log on, see americans furious with the Iranian government’s treatment of gay people and say “Oh shit gays are just as deserving of human rights”, nor will Biden read it and announce all gay Iranians are eligible for asylum. Rather Americans log in, go “look at those barbarians”, and support sanctions, bombing, and invasion.

    The same mechanism is why media outlets that support the the genocide of Gaza also run articles decrying the plight of gay people in Gaza.