arcturus @ sangle_of_flame @lemmy.world

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dude, like you don't even have to be a communist to be aware that the US does propaganda extremely often

that's not what they mean

they mean "America sending troops over to a foreign country to 'save them', and then sending more, and OOPS now we've started a war there and we're already racking up those war crimes, and now the civilians there literally see us as goddamn evil and they're not even wrong to think that way because it turns out that we were basically there mainly doing heinous shit so that the nation was in a position where they kinda had to let us have a share of their resources so rich old white men back home can add an extra 3 zeroes to their bank accounts" was something we literally did for the last 2 decades

it is very much the one of the likely historical outcomes of "now the US gets militarily involved"

but I mean, we did basically that already

like relatively recently

in the middle east

did you know that sending the goddamn US military there probably is going to make shit so much worse for civilians on both sides?

like why do you think we're going there for peaceful and benevolent reasons? We have literally never done that before.

it kind of tends to be a pattern in retrospect

US sends troops to other country saying that they're doing it for good and benevolent reasons -> a decade later we find out that they did war crimes there

I mean the first issue here is that you think the US government actually gives a shit about humanitarian things; they're doing this because it'll be beneficial to them, not out of the goodness of their heart

you really need to understand that you can't take the US at its word when it says it's sending soldiers to another country for moral reasons

this does not sound good

tbf, grimes is not better

would expect both of them to be less like this if that were the case

WE as humans are the problem.

you can count the owners of the entities that produce the most greenhouse gases within 3 digits; it's not "everybody"

although it's very common for the earlier generation to blame the later generation for the world sucking (or what they percieve as "sucking"), in this case it doesn't work because not every boomer and gen-x-er is a CEO or past CEO

like they're wrong to blame the later generations for this, but that's because it's not mainly a generational thing

but the thing about voting is that basically every politician is either:

1. In the pocket of one or more corporations
2. Literally part of a corporation (or outright owns one)
3. A politician at who doesn't have as much power as the former two or is in the pocket of one of them

so we could vote for John StopClimateChange, and then find out that every single thing that Mr. StopClimateChange said about his crusade to stopping climate change was not at all true or was so utterly miniscule in the long run as to be meaningless

then what?

and guess who lobbies a ridiculous amount to either keep the rules the same or bias it further towards their interests

yep, corporations once again

why is this man like this

tbf, it's definitely a thing that is genuinely being discussed about in a non-"why can't I just say the slur" way

edit: and by "discussed" I mean people who aren't white discussing it

perhaps they can do more than that, even

you know, it's really funny that every time someone goes "I don't care about

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I did not know minecoins were a thing

but in any case, I'm not saying that they're making a good decision, just that I don't see the point of reddit gold

yeah, like OP isn't realizing that they're going to just make another Twitter

if you have it that there are no rules against shittiness and bigotry, then the worst kinds of people will decide to hang around and will drive off everyone else; you'll have a nazi bar

are you LGBTQ though?

because if not, this take isn't it; there's a lot about LGBTQ communities that you're not going to understand just by being around them or being related to them

I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”

I'm actually of two minds on this one

to give them the benefit of the doubt, a lot of "criticism" of China often boils down to sinophobia and a lot of Western internet users do not seem to be able to tell the difference