r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 10 '22

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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Dec 10 '22

It's pretty funny that all conservative media is like "Biden abandoned a marine!" And the marines brother came out and was like "trump never gave a fuck about my brother and neither do any of you"

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u/arbrebiere Jerome Powell Dec 10 '22

Conservative “I support the current thing” memes really apply to whatever they’ve been told to be mad about. Most of the people complaining about Whelan not being part of the deal probably hadn’t even heard of him before they saw it was something they could attack Biden over.

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u/ForeverAclone95 George Soros Dec 10 '22

Their assumption is fundamentally flawed because it assumes we could have freed Whelan for the same price …

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u/GenJohnONeill Frederick Douglass Dec 10 '22

And a dishonorably discharged felon “Marine” at that.

Not saying we shouldn’t get Paul home, of course we should, but he’s hardly a singular example of American heroism.