Death to the USA

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46 Comments

Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 43 pts · 178d (5 replies)

We are 2 years out from an election and liberals are already telling us to get in line for gruesome Newsom.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 178d

VoTe BlUe No MaTtEr WhO!

DiscoAssBlazer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 178d (3 replies)
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Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 178d

Every accusation is a confession, etc. etc. lol

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 178d

Literally Brave New Fahrenheit 1984

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 178d

not a hijack; a basic understanding of reality.

Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 178d

That lemmy instance name

fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 178d

As a Southern Paiute person trying to survive in the imperial core, I approve this message.

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d (55 replies)
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GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 178d (15 replies)

This is like hearing “Land Back” and thinking that means deporting all white people. Completely disingenuous and ignorant misreading of an increasingly common phrase.

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 178d (14 replies)
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GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 178d (12 replies)

The fact that many phrases aren’t meant literally, especially as their use increases in frequency, is a frustrating fact. I wouldn’t call people using a phrase with a generally understood meaning is inherently disingenuous though.

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · -1 pts · 178d

The trick is, it's not a commonly used phrase. The chunk of the English speaking world that hears 'Death to America' and thinks 'As peaceful as possible an end to the malign actions of the american government and it's supporters' is tiny. The vast majority of people just hear it as hate, and even a fair sized chunk of the people who are shouting it are shouting it in the literal, hateful sense of 'kill the Americans.' You can't tell which is which without a conversation, and shouting 'death to' is not conducive to letting people have the conversation that would let them tell the difference between a person who wants fewer murders and one who wants more.

Yeah, it's sort of a slogan to some people, but it's a shit slogan. "Free Palestine!" means 'free Palestine.' "End apartheid!' means 'end apartheid.' "Death to america!" is ambiguous, at best, and only serves the interest of the American propaganda wing by letting them claim everyone is out to kill Americans because they are American, making their actions into justified self-defense. Don't help the propagandists. Don't support the narrative. Supporting their narrative is supporting them. I don't think that's what you want.

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 178d (10 replies)
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hamid@crazypeople.online · 7 pts · 178d (5 replies)

DEATH TO THE USA

DEATH TO ISRAEL

DEATH TO THE UK

DEATH TO FRANCE

DEATH TO GERMANY

DEATH TO THE NETHERLANDS

DEATH TO ITALY

DEATH TO ALL IMPERIALIST NATIONS

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 178d (4 replies)
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GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 178d

Again, insisting that people are calling for genocide especially after clarifying the meaning of the phrase is just bad faith at this point. You can argue it’s unclear or bad optics, but it’s not calling for genocide. It’s calling for the end to the systems that produce mass death and exploitation.

GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 178d (3 replies)

Doubling down on the permissibility of nationalism for a country that’s committed atrocity after atrocity is a shitty thing to do point blank period

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 178d (2 replies)
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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 178d

"How dare you condemn the genocidal imperialist US! Don't you know that I, personally, benefit from it?"

RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 178d

Common Sense Business As Usual is when you genocide other countries, pump everybody full of microplastics and collapse the biosphere for imaginary money

Violent extremism is when you want to stop the people doing that

The ideology drips thick as syrup

PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 177d (1 reply)

the meme does say they hate all usamericans

hamid@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 177d

I hate Germans too

hamid@crazypeople.online · -1 pts · 178d (20 replies)

You would deserve it but no, it means death to the concept of the USA, death to the government, death to the constitution, death to the settler colony on stolen land.

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 178d (19 replies)
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mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 178d (5 replies)

all you have done in your life since maturity is attempt to increase the number of stolen labor hours you can accrue from the global south. you are a worthless parasite lacking some of the most important human qualities #yup

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 178d
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BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -4 pts · 178d (3 replies)

Man, people are right, those from .ml have really bad takes.

hamid@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 178d (2 replies)

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -6 pts · 178d (1 reply)

So useful.

hamid@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 177d

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -7 pts · 178d (2 replies)

That's the kind of thinking I expect out of authoritarians. To punish not only the person but their family and future generations if any of their family. Sins of the fathers kinda shit too. Heh, I doubt they are truly indigenous to the area they live and wonder what indigenous think of them and their ancestors.

Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 178d

Last I heard, OP is an anarchist, and is explicitly stating their opposition to the genocidal settler-colonial empire.

hamid@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 178d

hamid@crazypeople.online · -9 pts · 178d (9 replies)
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 178d (8 replies)
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hamid@crazypeople.online · 10 pts · 178d (5 replies)

Don't ever call me brother, you humorless dope. You sensitive yanks are such losers.

Starmancy42@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 178d
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jasoman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d

That person in your meme would not want to start fights. /s

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 178d (2 replies)
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hamid@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 178d
  1. Locate your avatar in the top right of the screen and select "Settings"

  1. Select "Delete Account"

  1. Enter your password and select "Delete"

jasoman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 178d (1 reply)

Stop making sense your scaring him sponge Bob.

hamid@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 178d

🙄

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 178d (15 replies)

Don't be ridiculous. The problem isn't limited to Americans. It would be approximately 14% of the human race. Unless you think sitting on your thumb during a genocide exempts you from being tar-boiled in hell (for some reason)

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 178d (9 replies)
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mistermodal@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 178d (8 replies)

Indeed, nobody has even been banned from the significant parts of the internet for saying that, and I am completely serious.

If you would please consult the map,

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 178d (7 replies)
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mistermodal@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 178d (6 replies)

Yes, I am being completely sincere. I hope you enjoy our serious debates in the Memes community.

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 178d (5 replies)
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mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 178d

I'm calling HR dude not cool

humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 178d (4 replies)

I'd be curious to know what you would do to stop it if you lived in a country whose government was supporting a genocide. In fact, I wonder what country you live in and what you do to oppose any atrocities its government might be committing.

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 178d (3 replies)

asking me how I intend to stop you from committing genocide seems like bait. pretty obvious answer

humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 178d (2 replies)

Ahh, you're a troll. Got it.

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 178d (1 reply)

I see you have failed to adapt since being socialized on Ghislaine Maxwell's favorite website

RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 178d

Fuck im stealing thjs

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · -6 pts · 178d (2 replies)
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GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 178d (1 reply)

“I’m just helpless widdle cattle and not complicit in anything!!!” combined with “Your country is a shithole and your existence is meaningless” is sending me. The irony is completely lost on you isn’t it?

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 178d
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