davel

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

Islamic countries aren’t buying the US’s Uyghur genocide psyop. That propaganda only seems to work on the Fourteen Eyes’ own people, who live in a media bubble.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

I think they would find your pedantry annoying as well.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

What part of shining city on a hill do no not get, Canuck?

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

This pedantry is ridiculous, wrong, and annoying. The Han ethnic group that was in a relatively small patch of land ~4,000 years ago is hardly the same thing as the contemporary Westphalian sovereign state known as People’s Republic of China, which formed less than a hundred years ago and comprises many ethnicities.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100

The police have ever been henchmen of the capitalist class that has ever ruled this country. Their core purpose is to protect the capitalists’ private property—historically including chattel slaves—and to discipline labor.

Now that we’ve reached imperialism, the monopoly stage of capitalism, the police are brutalizing anyone who stands between the capitalists and their imperial interests, in this case their interests in West Asia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality#History

Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924.

The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops

TL;DR: ACAB

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

60 trucks 60 trucks 60 trucks is convincing to one user, anyway 🙄

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

I don’t know why you’re fixated on “60 tanker trucks.”

According to witnesses, the looting caravan consisted of 69 tankers loaded with oil and another 45 with wheat stolen from the silos in the city.

Do you believe that this one eyewitness report represents the entirety of what the US has done in Syria over the past decade?

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

https://redsails.org/anticommunism-and-wonderland/

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

You understand who runs this empire, right? It isn’t Antony Blinken or Lloyd Austin porky-happy

• Smedley Butler: War Is a Racket
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
• Immanuel Wallerstein » World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

This will probably devolve into the usual tropes. It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.

• lemmy.ml/comment/9325173
• lemmy.ml/comment/8392727

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

Seems rather excessive, doesn’t it? The genocide we’re currently supporting also seems a bit much.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/59e40e2d-d21f-48cc-925a-4dfaee40da84.jpeg www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMCvGlbbc4&t=20s

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

first-time

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• Shock therapy (economics)
• Are We The Baddies?
• The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
• Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Ghana Signs Deal With China For The Construction Of HPR1000 Nuclear Power Project

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One

davel , 3 months ago to memes in If the USA saw what the USA is doing in the USA...

The USA would illegally invade & occupy the USA to keep the oil.

• United States produces more crude oil than any country, ever
• U.S Troops Loot Syrian Oil and Wheat Continuously

davel , 3 months ago to technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in U.S. if legal options fail, Reuters sources say

The US was never meant to be a democracy and has never been one. It was born of a bourgeois revolution, and the Founding Fathers formed a bourgeois democracy, which was never meant to represent us, and never has. Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The US government and US corporate media are trying to convince us that foreign powers are undermining our democracy by putting foreign ideas in our heads through social media. But in reality 1) there is no democracy and 2) our government and corporate media have been putting ideas in our heads our entire lives. What they’re really worried about is losing control of the public discourse.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

As I’ve said elsewhere in this post, the BlueAnon conspiracy theories of Russian/Chinese bots significantly influencing our elections don’t hold water. Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away