zante

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[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I edited my comment while u were replying - but it still read the same .

Anyway, it’s Sounds like they a falling for Trump rhetoric themselves. He didn’t do much with the wall he promised to build, did he ?

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

It offers little on what Russias goal is, outside the republics current (and alleged) inward focus.

Tbh the whole doc reads like high school analysis.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf -2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

What do you think their goal is here ?

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 3 points 11 months ago

Not with that punctuation

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 0 points 11 months ago

Well it’s a good point - my math is not bad but it is limited, as you have shown.

However, I wouldn’t rush to support your effort to amortise the issue over such a broad cross section of the electorate and certainly not to speculate about a lifetime impact.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Not at all and criticising him like this is churlish - and putting him next to Kissinger is grotesque misrepresentation of him.

He’s been completely clear on his views on America, and why they are the subject of his focus. He, together with Herman, have revised their initial comments on The Khmer Rouge (which were not exclusive to them but held by many academics of the time) but stand by their criticism of the general media narrative at the time.

You can read this in Manufacturing Consent

No one is perfect and there are errors in his work, but no one has written more truth about American imperialism and likely no one will.

Perhaps for this reason, there are continual and considerable motivations to discredit him.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For which empire ?

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 11 points 11 months ago

VW have been putting billions in China in various investments and joint ventures

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 25 points 11 months ago

It’s like the media is playing catch up - on slo mo.

Vance was picked for Trump, not picked by Trump

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Sure . Everyone has a strong opinion on abortion - because its both binary and emotive.

But 630,000 abortions were performed in 2019, on a population of 330,000,000.

Which I think is about 0.2% of Americans.

So assuming when you vote you are voting to improve your own situation or for a better America., and whether you are pro life or pro choice, should this be the No.1 issue on the card for most people ?

When you stack it against universal health care, or getting the federal minimum wage to $20, or school meals, or fracking, or taxation , it doesn’t come close in terms of number of people affected.

This is no way to belittle the trauma experienced by those directly affected by it.

It is just to illustrate how emotive and polemic issues are used to divide the electorate and avoid them voting in unison on other, arguably bigger issues .

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