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57. Today in LM Explains California Politics: The Armenian Genocide is a Big Damn Deal.

There are a lot of Armenian-Americans in the central valley in particular. They vote. This is really fucking important to them.

I swear, it's the closest thing to a bipartisan issue you'll find in CA. EVERY politician running for any post above school board puts out a statement on the genocide and rejecting revisionism and calling on Turkey admit what happened.

Let me put it this way: if Germany's official position on WWII was that they didn't know what happened to all those Jews but maybe they starved to death or moved away because times were hard, would the US call on them to admit their role? Even though they run the Eurozone and are rich as Croesus and make cars which are quite lovely as long as they're under warranty? OF COURSE WE WOULD.

And we're not in danger of falling out with Turkey. We make all the best military hardware and their border backs up to an actual fucking warzone. Also their good relationship with us the only thing keeping the Kurds from carving off their own country, which Turkey doesn't want because they'd lose a chunk. If they got too huffy with us we'd stop telling the Kurds to wait for that inevitability a bit longer.

Oh wait, that turned into LM Explains CA Politics and Geopolitics. Lucky you, now you understand two things.