• comi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      America is back :sadness-abysmal:

      • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        idk if you noticed but they lost in Venezuela, Bolivia, are losing Brazil, Chile, and Peru. America ain't back, it's lost control and is grasping at anything

        • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah people are a bit too doomer. Even the mega cucked nation of Guatemala has started taking the US less seriously after the joke that is Kamala Harris came over

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

          America ain’t back, it’s lost control and is grasping at anything

          Nothing more American than flailing helplessly, doing performative outrage on the internet, and then blaming foreigners after you've failed.

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I've said this before, but I'm getting the sense that the US has entered the Habsburg chin phase of decaying empire. The halls of power and security agencies are filled with generational bureaucrats -- the failsons of failsons.

          Meritocracy is a lie, and the main traits being selected for are family connections, sociopathy, and boundless ambition. I expect that we'll see more and more ham-fisted and ultimately failed attempts to hold on to the glory days of the imperial past.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            3 years ago

            Yep, the ruse is up. America is no longer the shining city on the hill for anyone but Americans.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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                3 years ago

                Also yes, most people I know hate this fucking country. There are a bunch that still tacitly accept the propaganda, but if you can get them to take their hatred of the country and apply it critically to the that propaganda it's actually easy to convince them they're wrong.

                Like I did a Stalin apologia today and it worked lol. We were taking about how the Nazis got all their ideas from America and they said something about 13million people Stalin killed that "America covered up because they were our allies" and I asked them where they heard that and that said they didn't know, then I told them about the black book and how it was written by Americans dusting to cold war to try and use the deaths of Nazis as a "humanitarian" cudgel against the people who actually liberated the concentration camps and for once got a good response.

                People are kinda waking up...

                (This was in person btw, online tends to be way off from what actual working people believe)

                  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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                    3 years ago

                    Confront your friends and random strangers, when you're in person they can't cherry pick sources and most people rely on "common knowledge" that every single person here can easily debunk in 2 seconds.

                    Agitate and educate in your communities people. Go to divebars and places proles go when they get off their shifts and help educate them while having a good time. People are more likely to listen to you if you're nice and cool to talk to, it's not that bad comrades.

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Liberals: "Radical right wing Americans are dumb stupid hicks who deserve to die of opioid overdoses. Radical right wing Cubans are brave patriots who love their country and deserve out support."

      Socialists: "Cuba has had the best response to Covid-19 of any country in Latin America despite its retrograde material conditions largely caused by the inhumane sanctions put upon it by western countries. The protesters are a tiny minority and the majority trust the government. We've seen this before and we will not be fooled."

      Also: https://theconversation.com/the-scene-from-cuba-how-its-getting-so-much-right-on-covid-19-155699

    • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Hearing reports on twitter about day one accounts, previously dormant accounts becoming active, bot accounts. Shit is being wildly exaggerated and amplified inorganically it seems. Unsurprising twitter would promote this since a few months back they introduced that milk tea alliance emoji.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      At least with Belarus they were able to get a ton of dissatisfied people together, this is almost sad.

      • newmou [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        How did Belarus turn out? Is it still ongoing?

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Seems there are still occasional demonstrations, but the ones that have happened in 2021 have all been pretty small.

  • Kaputnik [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Pls Xi take up the mantle of the USSR and export the revolution, we need a counter to US imperialism

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Get some tips from Maduro on how to deal with these nerds. He's clearly had things under control despite having Guaido running loose trying his hardest to make things happen.

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      I think that helped Maduro, same thing Chavez did. Let these dolts embarrass themselves.. Only compromise when they threaten civilians and even then don't give in to their demands for the undoing of democratic power

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        To an extent. You still need to kneecap their capabilities and keep a very very close watch on what they're organising and how.

        Guaido was definitely a threat at one point, around the time those border trucks got burned. There was a turning point around those events where he was exposed as a liar and a grifter to the people and his threat went to zero.

        The big important thing the state has to do is expose them. I also think nationalism nationalism nationalism is incredibly important.

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Am*rica can eat my entire fucking dick and balls. Cuba Libre

  • sandinista209 [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Great. Think I’m gonna stay offline for a week. Reactionaries and shitlibs are gonna be drooling over this.