Like I just don’t care. A bunch of mercenaries and imperialists got killed and some shit about emails. did-someone

  • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    tbh I never learned what Benghazi was. apparently I wasn’t following any news in 2012, because I also didn’t know what Sandy Hook was until like a year later

    I probably heard the word “Benghazi” for the first time in like 2015 and I still don’t know anything about it

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      6 months ago

      AFAIK the US embassy in Benghazi got attacked and wiped out, and the State Department and US military were uncoordinated in their response. Basically just the typical rot and incompetence of the imperial machine, which only knows how to do terror bombings with jets and drones and is confused and terrified by any other sort of conflict.

      Chuds decided it was some sort of inside job conspiracy by the Secretary of State to facilitate an attack on State Department property and have been banging on about it ever since despite that being utterly mad compared to the mundane explanation that the US military is a shitshow hollowed out by graft and decades of doing nothing but massacring unarmed or poorly armed civilians.

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      Same. I know nothing about it, despite it being mentioned numerous times leading up to the 2016 election. It seemed to get brought up as if everyone should know what it was and have an opinion about it, but no one ever bothered to mention what happened or why it was bad. It became a nonsense word. To this day I refuse to look it up.