• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Because even as the Earth burns and the Fascists march directly due to the capitalist’s class conquest, domination, and occupation, even many Americans who believe themselves to be politically leftwing think they can dunk on socialists and communists for their “silly” ideologies based in social cooperation and mutual social benefit where… Gasp… You can’t grind yourself to death under the toxic aspiration of attaining immoral levels of wealth to live larger than is reasonable within the finite shared habitat known as Earth.

    They of course conveniently forget all the military actions the US has taken over the last century to destabilize nations that wanted to become such societies in order to keep their resource markets open to our capitalist’s exploitation.

    Oh, and get ready for the hottest summer of your life… So far! 🔥🌎🔥

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      this graphic is missing brazil in 1964 its missing literally every other country that isnt listed.

      now that i think of it, it would probably be easier to list the countries the US didn’t destroy in central and south america.

    • Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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      Anyone who praises Xi Jingping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and <insertAuthoritarianMurdererHere> as hard as I routinely see on lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad is an awful person and deserves derision, contempt, and distrust. They can call themselves a “leftist”, “socialist”, “communist”, or a whatever-ist. Fundamentally, they’re edgelord bootlickers and temporarily inconvenienced dictators-in-waiting.

      “wHaTaBoUt USA, iSrAeL, nAtO, etc.?”

      You can hate “The West”, their people, their foreign policy, and their economics.

      Doesn’t mean you should suck dictators’ dicks because they’re “not The West”.

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      Some of these events were egregious and deserve condemnation but tbh 56 “events” in the span of 59 years doesn’t seem all that bad. It’s not like they’ve conquered any of them. Even the Panama Canal was treated as working relationship and eventually the US pulled out of operating it.

      US Military Bases are all over the world because those actually do stabilize the regions against outside threats. Without them, some of these smaller nations would not exist today.