THEY DID THE MEME. THE ABSOLUTE MADLADS DID THE MEME
https://old.reddit.com/r/VaushV/comments/ojoyj8/rule/h53w4y3/?context=3
imperialism is when you send troops, and the more troops you send,, the more imperialist it is
I give these fucking melts a few months before they claim the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz was "imperialism"
The "Russia did an imperialism in WWII" is the oldest libshit take I know, and an immense dogwhistle if you will listening it.
Yes. "But why would Russia remain any more time there after Hitler was shot (since that single act made all the nazis suddenly dissapear) if it wasn't because they are imperialists"
imperialism is when you send troops, and the more troops you send,, the more imperialist it is
This what soc dem debate bros believe, sadly
Cuba helping my country defeat apartheid is imperialism according to this loser. Go dunk on them folks
imperialism is when volunteers help liberate angola from the forces of white colonizers
People desperately need to be taught the difference between using your military to do a thing vs economic imperialism as a higher tier of capitalism.
It's the primary issue the comes up over and over when spreading anti-imperialism. People do not understand it.
The US really didn't want to do an imperialism in New Orleans after Katrina
Right? There is a huge amount of confusion between anti-war and anti-imperialist messaging. Anti-imperialism is not anti-war, although anti-war can be anti-imperialism at times. And use of military to do a thing gets massively confused with imperialism because of the confusion with anti-war and military occupation.
Yeh it's pretty understandable for people to not get the difference, especially if they are from, say, the US, since 99% of its military deployments were that.
With military force. :tankie:
(But actually yeah, I think emphasizing the difference between antiwar and anti-imperialism at every opportunity, person by person. There's no quick fix.)
NGL being the "akchually this war isn't imperialism" reminds me of libs so it's not my priority to go there.
I mean, yeah. But also AES states are definitely going to get dragged into wars in our lifetime and libs are definitely going to do the "See! they're imperialist!" argument.
Also spreading socialism constantly gets called imperialism as if every socialist country is a puppet state of whatever the largest socialist country in the world is. That got thrown at the USSR a lot and it will be thrown at China in coming years.
Violence = Bad. I will defend the status quo at any cost.
Not actually, of course. But I'll get very angry on the internet about it.
While ignoring the violence perpetrated to maintain the status quo in a considerably worse state and while pretending said violence does not exist.
I love how, in this precocious mind, developing a real world country operates like building a base in Red Alert. Money (and there's only one type of that!) seamlessly converts into whatever you need, with the only difficulty being saving up enough for a tech center now and then. You don't need silly things like an industrial base or trade with other countries; there are no problems with currency exchanges; and what is brain drain, anyway?
Because that's literally how they think goods are produced in capitalist countries, they all just go to the X Factory and produce infinite products with infinite resources and they pop up at the store
Imperialism is when you send soldiers abroad and the more soldiers you send, etc, etc.
Can't seem to find how many military bases Cuba has in South Africa, though. Anyone have that number?
Ah. Hmmm... Well, then. How many American military bases are there, just as a point of comparison?
I've seen the US Consulate in Cape Town described as a base simply because of how ridiculously over-armed it is.
I just find it amusing to think Cubans are occupying South Africa like the US is doing in Iraq or Afghanistan, for instance.
famously democratic aparteid south africa and fascist portugal
Ignoring the fact that Cuba spends <5% of its GDP on its military, money doesn't make those trade embargoes magically go away. If you've got $100 but the stores closed, the fuck are ya gonna do? And here they are conflating military intervention with Imperialism even though they are always bitching about the left doing so. Comparing Cuban involvement in Africa and American involvement in Asia, which one resembles an Imperial pursuit? The results and receptions speak for themselves.
The Venezuela line is pure fabrication.
What do you mean? I know Venezuela has had a long border dispute with Guyana but I'm pretty sure Cuban relations have been pretty good.
Lots of similar takes from "every country I don't like is a genocidal regime" twitter.
Honestly I've seen this kind of takes with right wing reactionaries from several latin american countries.
I mean, at this point the vaushites aren't even that. They're just straight up neolibs now.
it's getting so draining seeing Chomskanarchists doing consent manufacturing on AES, and they get so bent out of shape screaming about 'tankies' when you point it out
imperialism is when ppl with red flag help ppl with red flag (if all are brown ppl it's a higher stage of imperialism)
