• star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Just one of many, many contradictions of US capitalist society that damn near everyone here believes "the US shouldn't be the world police" and that we shouldn't interfere in other countries in general. But when you ask those same people if we should intervene in any specific country for specific reasons i.e. should we "assist" Nicaragua in "fighting corruption" or sanction Venezuela because Maduro bad, the same people almost always say "yes".

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      the US shouldn’t be the world police

      Literally no 'murican ever said that

      • enkifish [any]
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        3 years ago

        Everyone of my conservative relatives says this shit. They also are up for bombing or overthrowing whatever country the media works them up about. The parent is completely correct.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      should we “assist” Nicaragua

      The implication is always that we'll be "advising" and not "shadow puppetering in between special forces incursions"

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Holy fucking shit no they need US to stay the fuck out of their shit for once :agony-shivering: :agony-consuming: :agony-acid: :agony-mescaline: :agony-immense: :agony-limitless:

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      But what about all our poor sensible gusanos who want latam to remain a US backwater? You don't care about them?

      smdh 😔 at your verminphobia. I thought socialism was about caring for the people

  • Teekeeus
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    24 days ago

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    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Just started watching Peaky Blinders again and the season 3 plotline is basically operation Northwoods but with vile Russian aristocrats as opposed to gusanos lol.

      Kinda surprised that the show portrays the communists as the objectively good guys and Churchill and the Whites as objectively evil pedophiles.

      Nothing ever changes. The ones who flee the revolution are never the good ones.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Fighting corruption, US style:

    1. Allow oligarchs to own the media and the politicians
    2. There are no more steps.
    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      He has had a public service career spanning government, international organizations, civil society, and academia

      :cia:

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    the US can't solve their own corruption issues so, as usual, they're lashing out with imperialism

  • Lucas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Ah yes. The assistance of CIA black sites in their countries and ICE concentration camps in others.

    All the while Kamala is saying 'don't come here.'

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    They say the same shit about Africa lmaooo. "Fighting corruption" usually involves:

    • A shit ton of IMF loans. Everybody owes money to the IMF permanently basically.

    • An American or British mining company owning the right to everything. This can include public infrastructure like ports and railways if they can get away with it. If you have oil, a French fuel company like Total owns everything (Sorry USA, :no-oil: for you. The French are master imperialists in Africa).

    • US and EU slush funds for corrupt presidents that support the west, in order to keep them in power. And to have influence in government policy. Even the weakest form of affirmative action to try undo centuries of colonialism? That's a no.

    • If you disagree with this they'll pull a Libya on you. Or the French will just occupy you semi permanently and bomb weddings like they do in Mail. Mali is basically France's version of the US in Afghanistan at this point. Or the US will start running some covert ops in your country.

    In short,

    Death to :amerikkka::france-cool::ukkk::eu-cool:

    Death to all imperialists.

  • Syngo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    The only thing Latin America needs out of the United States is for it to explode into fifty countries already.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Texas and California should be further carved up

    • RedCoat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It’s one banana republic, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?