GulbuddinHekmatyar

Thank you, pdx.

The literal definition of "if I speak, I am in big trouble"

Typical COINTELPRO shenanigans, amirite.

::: spoiler downvooter

May I wish you a happy removed

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Now that I think of it, he's a POS. But granted, I guess what rose-tinted my glasses towards him is him being president to declare war against the fascists of Japan, Italy, and Nazi (the latter, prolly conditionally) and his lend-lease aid to USSR.

I can say he was a necessary evil, but no long-term ally indeed

People like fdr only cared about white workers

Hmmph... with a mindset like that, you could read settlers, lmao (It's just a joke, never read, in my life)

But then again, this book might be too extreme for your tastes.

Emkay... seems good

Still doesn't exonerate from introducing Ted Lasso liberal finance capital fascism (also known as Neoliberalism)

Introducing the hawkish national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski who did the following

::: spoiler the following Supporting Iraq and Nicaragua contras before Reagan did it

Supporting Angolan anti-communists and Mujahideen Afghan rebels

Backing China and Khmer Rouge against Soviet ally Vietnam (for what? Stopping the genocide there)

Backing East Timor and Guatemala genocides

But what would I expect from a white sharecropper family in a SSettler SSnake society of the Disunited SStates of Amerikkka :::

But okay, I guess I'll respect that

Then, why'd ye bother responding... anyways, how's rent on your part?

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Now, go ahead and downvoot, you lemmy.world arseholes

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Deeply unserious comment

Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

Shit flex but okay, Donald Dump

It is not them who should fade away

It is ye

Yer ilk has single-handedly redditized the spirit of true Lemmy, you {redacted}, may you burn in hell!

Fellow transphobes?

Yeah... let's make it quick, boys : )

An umbrella...

Some fellow student named Jordan did it years ago...

I'm still pissed and wondering where wtf he lives

It is possible (and highly encouraged) to use basic critical thinking and be critical of both when relevant.

You would probably classify me as pro-us, because I think tianman square was a horrible massacre and russian forces are commiting war crimes in ukraine. Doesnt mean I’m not critical of american imperialism. You can be critical to both. And in your whataboutism, I think a lot of ML, Hexbear accounts fail to be critical when appropriate of both.

Eh, fair enough.

To be fair, regardless of your political views (pro-U.S or pro-China)

I guarantee, this is a more impactful change than the U.S or China's politics, on their own, will ever get... at least something's new IN THE WORLD

(I'm not even gonna convince y'all on whether China is good or not or America bad; I have my own views, you have yer own)

My man, yk I could just say flip the liberal whataboutism and that being history and also point ye at the U.S occupying parts of Syria, and controlling South Korea's military now as we speak