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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

of course, lebensraum drew straight from manifest destiny, USA and its lapdogs have yet to answer for their crimes

[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet to answer for, yet to pay restitution, yet to even truly liberate us even

[–] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. And they won't even admit the knife is there."

-- Malcolm X, 1964

[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Almost 60 years and ain't shit changed

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

hey have you watched "the man in the high castle" it's about alternative universe in which the nazis won, can you imagine if that happened, can you imagine if they just took over an entire continent and murdered almost everyone on it and installed a fascist christian ethnostate and went about playing world police for 80 years, that would be real fucked up

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite part about the book is that there's an alt-alt-history novel the characters will sometimes read, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy where instead the Allies win the alt-history version of WW2. In the alt-alt-history, after the Allies win they basically do a positive imperialism where they conquer Africa and China, somehow eliminate poverty, spread the New Deal worldwide, then the US and UK get into a cold war that the UK wins.

I took it to mean that PKD thought even in a liberal's wildest imagination, even when under the direct threat of fascism, they'd write a book about how they almost win and then lose.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

oh shit they went and made the amazon show into a book

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no but I've watched Harry Potter. Expelliarmus! Crypto Patronym! Terra Nullius!

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

then you'll love my fanfic, harry potter and the lost cause

[–] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

"And the wizarding world will rise again!"

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is not OK when the United States of America commits imperialist expansion and genocide.

Therefore, it is OK when other countries commit imperialist expansion and genocide.

This is sarcasm.

I have to specify because there are actually dipshits dumb enough to unironically believe this utter fucking bullshit around here.

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I agree 100% with this comment

I can’t believe people here support the genocide and imperialism Ukraine is doing to the people in the Donbass just because it isn’t America

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for finally saying it, everything that every country ever does is Imperialism! Context? Who cares! The main thing is that since everyone is doing imperialism, everyone is bad. But "we" are doing it less badly than them, which makes them worse, so lets talk about "them" more than ourselves, I think thats fair!

This is sarcasm.

[–] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Draegur@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i am literally criticizing whataboutism.

every time someone says "russia shouldn't be doing that" the response is "bUh wUdDaBoUt UsA"

[–] Vertraumir@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Russia shouldn't be doing what? Protecting russians from nazis? Пшел нахуй либерал

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The point is, if you are against imperialism, then:

  1. You should know what imperialism actually is.
  1. You should be against imperialism all the time, consistently.

Libs neither understand what imperialism is, nor do they condemn it when the West does it.