GivingEuropeASpook

joined 2 years ago

~~thats why you need PATRIOTIC billionaires~~

Tbf I'm pretty sure that Musks actions are spurring the Pentagon to look into developing their own.

2023 and we're still calling things our spirit animals eh?

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you must have never met the liberals who act like Europe is devoid of "dumb racist hicks" who don't "vote against their own best interests". Some Americans consider Europeans more human than the Rust Belt, or the Deep South, or Texas.

IDK it might be beneficial to know if it's ANOTHER one of the 15 intelligence agencies the US operates...

Like Russia, the US prosecutes you for exposing the truth of what the US army does abroad. arguing that classified information keeps US citizens safe in their "work" abroad – not unique to the US but the US is the dominant world power still so it gets a lot of criticism from the left. It's hard to get the right perspective when you live in an imperial core that has done a lot to insulate its civilian populace from the impacts of conflict, and governments don't like it when whistleblowers make it easier.

https://vkrizis.ru/obschestvo/olga-smirnova-prigovorena-k-shesti-godam-za-sem-postov/

If you search her name in Cyrillic you can find Russian sources (.ru domains are managed by Russia, no?)

I don't know if they'd go through the effort of staging the photo

https://vkrizis.ru/obschestvo/olga-smirnova-prigovorena-k-shesti-godam-za-sem-postov/ https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6186252

I don't read russian but I think this is legit? I just copied and pasted her Cyrillic name in Duck Duck Go, so these might still be western propaganda targeted towards Russians like I said I don't speak or read Russian or know major outlets in Russia.

and they wonder why young people uniformly hate corporations and what they've done to the environment

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tended to have communism/socialism condescendingly poopooed as "well-meaning" but "never really working because human nature".

Anyways, time to learn about the french revolution and the reign of terror, which in no way should be viewed as an indictment of liberal revolutions the way the red terror does for socialism.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think liberals extend some courtesy to other ~~white~~ "Western" nations.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it was americans. even if the government helped, it was common americans, poor and rich, who murdered and repressed natives every day until the land was solidly occupied.

Even so, there have been Americans who opposed what their country and countrypeople were doing, and fought to oppose it. Were they in the minority? At times, sure, but the American political system has always given disproportionate power, first to landowning Anglo-Saxon Christian men and now to (still predominantly the same group tbh) rich people and the people they get to follow them.

the average american was evil back then and remains evil as fuck to this day, because that's what not being an anti-imperialist leftist tends to mean if you live right in the middle of the imperial core

If you view everyone who isn't actively radicalized as evil then I think you're losing touch with some of the very people that need to also be radicalised. The "average American", when polled time and time again routinely profess to have viewpoints waaaaaay to the left of mainstream discourse. Is it not our job as socialists to get to the see the full extent of what it means to really believe in equality and justice?

There are some pretty radical US teachers who don't teach American mythology, and unless they're in Florida or another state banning CRT and gender-affrming sex-ed, they aren't breaking the law in the process.

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