The fact that you think the constant whining and blamecasting at nobody in particular constitutes a callout speaks volumes. And the fact that your first resort on being challenged is a barrage of insults speaks even more. Someone more intellectually minded might even use it as a jumping off point for some introspection, or see the parallel with US politics in general and foreign policy in particular - but, of course, that would risk recognizing the nose and rainbow hair as the reflection in the window pane that they are.

Honk-honk, Buttons. Honk-honk.

Man, you Americans really do think everything is some foreigner's fault?

...Here's a thought exercise for you: The year is 2028, Trump is running for a third term, and the Dem ticket is... IDK, Newsom/Buttigieg or whatever, and the big thinkers of the DNC have come up with a foolproof plan to steal away MAGA voters: they will agree with exterminating trans people, but! BUT! will firmly, and I mean FIRMLY stand behind gay marriage. And you're trying to explain that both of those choices are unacceptable to you, and in response are met with an avalanche of mockery because "sure, yeah, one side wants gay marriage banned, but they’re both the exact same amirite?"

Seriously, though, best of luck. Not to assume stuff about your situation, but getting out sooner rather than later sounds like a good move.

You may think that now, but I distinctly remember the then-prime minister of Estonia and current vice-president of the EC honouring a summit where the participants were carrying around a blow-up shark. Why a shark? Well, a random Russian tourist got killed in a shark attack some time earlier, and, well, dead Russian, ha-ha.

It's good to see the sentiment has receded somewhat, but it is concerning that it literally took the tables turning to get people to self-reflect.

Oh, it's not the "system, man", it's you. As in, you, @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca, personally. You are the exact person I'm thinking about when I say this, and it's frankly amazing you decided to throw your hat in ring here, while simultaneously defending attacks on Iran elsewhere.

Yeah, you're right. I'm sure the Democrats would not have supported Israel in Iran, same as how they didn't support Israel in Yemen, or in Lebanon, or in Gaza, or in Syria, or in...

You remember when Russia invaded Ukraine, and the whole western world collectively decided being Russian made you ontologically evil?

Well, that.

I have to say, the one good part of Trump in office is at least you lot aren't lecturing people on why invading Iran is good, actually!

Well, it didn't exactly help that something like half of the most significant nuclear physicists of the era were, uh... yknow... disinvited from the country.

Was the Soviet Union a victim when Germany attacked them?

...Really? That's the comparison you're gonna go with?

Hell, even if you don't. Gaddafi made a big show of "giving up" weapons that he didn't even really have, and he still got raped to death with a bayonet.

I mean, technically, illegal occupation is in and of itself a warcrime, so there's that?

Abolitionist, more like.

Something something "decays into fascism"...

It's like they all have to try it, personally, to figure out it doesn't work.

Don't worry, in a few years all of those people will have opposed it from the start.

I wouldn't even be sure he's right on this per se, rather than just a rat jumping a sinking ship.