"When The US sends its president, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending a person that has lots of problems, and he's bringing those problems with him. He's bringing drugs. He's bringing crime. He's a rapist."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
I'm sure there were other things/resources to extract/control there, but this is the one I know and remembered off the top of my head.
It's also a good place to do a real life test of (actual) weapons of mass destruction. A showroom of violence for potential buyers across the world.
I'm not from there but I'll say that The US doesn't intervene overseas in order "to spread democracy" or "to protect the world from the evils of communism" but to protect its economic interests, to increase the profits of capitalists through industries such as weapons and oil, and to make sure that no socialism occurs that threatens the stranglehold of capitalism.
Some books to check:
- Major General Smedley D. Butler - War Is A Racket
- Tim Weiner - Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA
- William Blum - Killing Hope: US Military And CIA Interventions Since World War II
- Noam Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants
The issue is when it is done publicly, it is almost always done in bad faith to try and shame/put someone down and dismiss everything they said due to a mistake. If you want to teach someone you should send them a private message. Don't put them on blast in front of everyone. It shows a lack of empathy and depicts you as someone who wants to appear superior/better than them. Of course, there are ways to do it publicly but courteously, for example something like "just fyi, it's they're not their :) but anyway, I do agree with what you're saying [or] it was interesting to read your take on this"
We should be spending less on military and private sector, and more on public education, healthcare and social safety at large
This reminded me of this quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower (the US president who warned against the military-industrial complex)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
I doubt it but I hope it somehow signifies a lasting slowing down of imperialism, of protecting the interests/profits of foreign corporations over local populations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_involvement_in_the_Iraq_War
I mean, it's been a threat to people and democracy across the world since at least 1898
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
y’all need to stand up against racism and discrimination
I concur, I think they should push towards a more positive internet. Though I think they are a bit wary of doing it ever since the toxic backlash to this blog post
https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
The psychopathic system we're living under deserves to be broken, sure, but a broken world would just mean additional suffering for the masses and will only serve the people at the top to get a tighter murderous grip on everything.
What's needed is a program that analyzes and pinpoints the conditions that create violent behavior and uproots them (for example, living in scarcity with no economic security and feeling marginalized, having no empathetic communal support system, etc.)
(cc: James Gilligan)
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Pretty generic, but the territoriality drives me mad.
We have an "open house" policy where stray cats can come and eat as they please. But whenever we adopt one of them they would almost without fail become territorial and chase/attack other cats that come to eat. Like, "bitch you were just in their predicament, have some empathy! You see us actively giving them food, they are not intruders stealing food"
Another thing is some cats' refusal to get into a carrier/trap to go to a vet. "You're obviously suffering and we want to help you, just get into the damn carrier already"