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davel ,
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Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab7NyKw0VYQ

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r/neoliberal has entered the chat 🤡

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What a bizarre non-statement. Please, enlighten us, who?

davel ,
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Fair enough. I mistakenly took it as rhetorical. Definitionally both sides benefit from bilateral relations, but in the case of state actors that isn’t especially revealing on its own.

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There are Russian fascists. Take Navalny, for example, who the US tried to use in its regime change efforts so that it could resume its neoliberal .

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Reporter: REDACTED
Reason: Breaks Community Rules

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Reason: …

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Reason: troll

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Reason: Poster is a Russian troll

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Reason: Not a meme. Nationalism. Racism. anti-Semitic. And just generally bullshit

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Reason: Russian troll

It seems this meme was a bit too much for imperial core libs, Cool Dude.

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Reporter: REDACTED
Reason: russian troll

To say they’re only killing Nazis is a bit of a trolling oversimplification, and I wouldn’t essentialize Russia’s motives down to only liberating the people of the Donbas, but “russian troll” is RussiaGate BlueAnonsense.

As to whether Russia is doing imperialism, I’ll copypasta myself:

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.

Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.

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Best of luck. Burgerlanders tend not to stray outside the Five Eyes corporate media bubble while imagining themselves well-informed.

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Three women, loads of lies and the destruction of Libya

Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power were the three principal advocates of war against Libya in 2011, setting the North African nation on a free fall ever since. Demonstrations broke out in some Libyan cities against the government of late Muammar Gaddafi in February 2011, in what became known as the “Arab Spring” that engulfed the region. However, Libya’s promised spring turned into a destructive autumn during which Gaddafi was murdered on 20 October, 2011, and Libya was left anguishing in lawlessness, courtesy of the three women.

Samatha Power currently runs USAID, nominated for the position by Biden. Until recently Susan Rice ran the Domestic Policy Council, also picked by Biden.

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You’re saying that 1/3 of Americans are dumb as hell while repeating BlueAnonsense.

davel ,
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Notably the ban doesn’t kick in until after the election, after which it may not even be Biden’s problem. Maybe ByteDance will shut it down sooner. Maybe the next administration won’t follow through with the ban. 🤷

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it’s fully owned and operated by people in China

US private equity firms own more than anyone. WSJ: What Is TikTok Worth? Some Say $20 Billion, Others Say $100 Billion

[ByteDance founder] Zhang owns 20% of ByteDance, according to the company, though super shares have given him larger voting rights. Roughly 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors including Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna International Group. The remaining 20% is owned by company employees.

The CEO is Singaporean Shou Zi Chew and the VP is American Michael Beckerman.

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All the arrests happening are from people being encouraged on TikTok to become aggressive and angry towards apartheid.

THEY ARE TRYING TO STOP THE GENOCIDE BEING PERPETRATED IN THEIR NAME

WTF is wrong with you?

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davel ,
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i’m p sure yogthos broke the through the ukrainian defenses single-handedly with his fearsome posting agenda. wave after wave of orc posts into the meat grinder.

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@yogthos, I think this post title is a bridge too far. It’s a complete break from the headline’s letter and spirit.

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Not having paid close enough attention, I have no idea if/how much Ansar Allah influenced this move.

FWIW, sometimes I put some editorializing—usually in brackets—in a post title, or else I put it in the body of the post. And sometimes I post to a comm that’s more appropriate for editorializing. I’m not a c/worldnews mod, though.

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Western media not whitewashing Nazi brigade challenge (impossible)

Before 2022 this didn’t seem to be a problem:

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It seems thehill.com is rejecting based on User-Agent. Anyone know what User-Agent Lemmy claims to be?


<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sI https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 403 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200
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<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Lemmy/0.19.3; blah blah'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200 
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Must be something else. I’m not familiar with “px-captcha”. It seems to come up in HUMAN’s docs: duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aedocs.humansecurity.com+“px-captcha”

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Which “they” didn’t defend themselves strongly enough in 2014? The US-installed coup government or the people of Crimea who welcomed the Russian government?

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Yes we just love us some dictators uwu 🙄 Copypasta from a previous conversation:

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.

Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.

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I can’t speak to why Navalny was in prison, I only know that he was a fascist who wanted to invite US capitalists back to resume their neoliberal .

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Okay. Shall we disregard the NYT and other Council on Foreign Relations-aligned media outlets as well then?

davel ,
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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.

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The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and when those efforts failed it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just last week.

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

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The dept trap diplomacy narrative is neocolonial* projection from the imperial core states.

*Even Wikipedia’s entry on neocolonialism projects it onto China, because Wikipedia is full of imperial core propaganda.

davel ,
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Yes, all this bullshit again: lemmy.ml/comment/10617237

davel ,
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It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

davel ,
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What in the 50 Cent Party kinda post is this?

I elaborated elsewhere in this post: lemmy.ml/comment/10617237

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USAID isn’t lazy, it’s a constituent part of US imperialism. Samantha Power is a war criminal. Three women, loads of lies and the destruction of Libya

Mapping U.S. Imperialism

U.S. imperialism has also been built through “soft power” organizations like USAID, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Organization of American States (OAS). These nominally international bodies are practically unilateral in their subservience to the interests of the U.S. state and U.S. corporations. In the 1950s and ‘60s, USAID (and its precursor organizations) made “development aid” to Asian, African, and South American countries conditional on those countries’ legal formalization of capitalist property relations, and reorganization of their economies around homeownership debt. The goal was to enclose Indigenous land, and land shared through alternate economic systems, as a method of “combatting Communism with homeownership” and creating dependency and buy-in to U.S. capitalist hegemony (Nancy Kwak, A World of Homeowners). In order to retain access to desperately needed streams of resources (e.g. IMF “loans”), Global South governments are forced to accept resource-extraction by the U.S., while at the same time denying their own people popularly supported policies such as land reform, economic diversification, and food sovereignty. It is also important to note that Global South nations have never received reparations or compensation for the resources that have been stolen from them–this makes the idea of “loans” by global monetary institutions even more outrageous.

davel ,
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Other than putting words in my mouth and invoking Umberto Eco with no evidence, you seem to have nothing to say.

davel ,
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Have you read these agreements or are you just going on vibes?

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That’s what it means to be the indispensable nation. That’s what it means to be the world’s superpower and the world’s leading democracy.

jagoff

Still, I’m not a fan of these videos being posted to c/worldnews either, and they do seem to break the rules. But I’m not a c/worldnews mod.

davel ,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One

davel ,
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first-time

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

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

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

davel ,
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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?

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

davel ,
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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.

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

davel ,
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I think they would find your pedantry annoying as well.

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Real capitalism doesn’t have bailouts and central management and endless regulatory red tape that favors the rich corporate bosses.

That’s still just capitalism. The state has been captured by the bourgeoisie since its birth in the 1776 bourgeois revolution. The Founding Fathers formed a bourgeois democracy, otherwise known as a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The state has never represented the proletariat, and it was never supposed to.

Real capitialism is everyone fighting like cats and dogs to provide the best product at the lowest prices, which has not been happening in America since the days before Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

Firstly that is also just capitalism, and secondly, by the time Rockefeller became a robber baron it was already no longer that type of capitalism, but monopoly capitalism, which we still have today. This type of capitalism had been predicted by Marx and described in great detail by Lenin in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism%2C_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism.

we live under a hardline socialist regime in the USA

So you don’t have even a basic understanding of capitalism or of socialism. Even Wikipedia isn’t this wrong.

Thus the capital of the poor continues to flow one direction, to the rich, and if the rich get into trouble, the government takes more capital from the poor to bail out the rich. That is socialism, not capitalism.

As long as the state serves the bourgeoisie, it is a capitalist state. A socialist state is when the state serves the proletariat. Communism is when it is a classless society. And sovereign fiat money doesn’t work that way. The government doesn’t get its money from the poor or from anyone else: it just creates it out of thin air. Why The Government Has Infinite Money

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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

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