"Some say that when someone dies, if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything. I would say that when a war criminal dies, if you can’t tell the truth, you should keep your mouth shut. If a war criminal in the global south died, western imperialists would not say something nice, unless, of course, that war criminal was aligned with the west. There is no default response of niceness towards a dead war criminal who wasn’t part of the empire."

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👁️‍🗨️ "" Dick Cheney 🇺🇸 was one of the architects of the so-called War on Terror and while his death toll is hard to quantify, it’s plausibly in the millions. He played a leading role in the bombings of Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. He was responsible for firing depleted uranium shells in Fallujah which has led to babies being born with deformities to this day. Cheney said he had no regrets about Iraq and that 'we made exactly the right decisions'. When 🇩🇪 Himmler died, we did not say nice things about him. It is equally perverse to praise a man who killed potentially millions in the Middle East. If you disagree with that statement, it’s because you don’t value Middle Eastern lives."" 💬 View quoted note →