A) I was using it to ridicule the people who create phantom hits on Afghan informants in the delusion that in a civil war of the sort the USA's blundered into trying to end those informants are unknown to those who'd want to kill with or without Assange.
B) Actually the main instance the USA was good at being evil with was behaving in a means rather like that of 20th Century Germany and ensuring that a record of treachery, genocide, and armed repression of any and all opposition, be it by reactionary slaveholders or striking members of the working class was met by a whiff of grapeshot. It hasn't been quite as good at that in the 20th and 21st Centuries because its rise was due to luck, not anything inherent in its system and it's deluded itself into thinking it was due to the system, hence attempts to address the real problem would never happen.
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B) Actually the main instance the USA was good at being evil with was behaving in a means rather like that of 20th Century Germany and ensuring that a record of treachery, genocide, and armed repression of any and all opposition, be it by reactionary slaveholders or striking members of the working class was met by a whiff of grapeshot. It hasn't been quite as good at that in the 20th and 21st Centuries because its rise was due to luck, not anything inherent in its system and it's deluded itself into thinking it was due to the system, hence attempts to address the real problem would never happen.