this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
1681 points (97.8% liked)

Political Memes

5224 readers
3277 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Name three nations the US has couped to replace their democratically elected leader with a corrupt autocrat that sold gladly his people to US interest in exchange of power.

[–] grue 2 points 9 months ago

The benefits the grandparent commenter pointed out aggregate to North America, Western Europe and Oceania, while the costs you point out are imposed elsewhere.

[–] assassin_aragorn 1 points 9 months ago

What does that have to do with their point though? They're saying that the rest of the West enjoys their prosperity because of the American military, and I don't think they're wrong. The coups and corruption elsewhere around the world are what enabled the prosperity.