• Siethron@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Speaking of CIA, I sometimes wonder if MKULTRA V2 was ever done and more successfully. Possibly used on people like Fetterman to help serve billionaire backer interests.

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    Wish the tankies were less coping about human right failures but instead learning to improve from studying them, but I guess the global world order against communism is causing everyone to be their enemy so it’s only normal

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      The anticommunism crowd is weaker than its ever been, the problem is Tankies don’t support any real communism just dictatorship.

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      There are two issues with human rights.

      One is selective enforcement. There are a long list of countries with abysmal human rights records, but it’s too strategically convenient or economically essential to look the other way. Whrn was the last time they made a fuss about Jamal Khashoggi? Human rights only gets invoked when sabre-rattling is useful, not as a solid and consistent moral framework.

      The other is that it’s a “luxury product”. Can every country support a modern human-rights model, or does it require a certain level of economic and political stability? It’s hard to maintain rule of law amid active insurgency, or if you can’t even deploy the bureaucratic state. Once you’ve gotten past that threshold, will both leaders and the broader population be eager to switch from the system that got them where they are? You’ve got to convince people that being able to write an anti-government op-ed is more important than security, or the price of eggs. This is a long term soft sell: berating countries for not measuring up to Western standards isn’t going to get them to make that choice any faster.

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        You have a point, i wonder if Russia could have industrialised as fast if it didn’t make use of every labor and resources present

        Not to mention that communist societies have been scrutinized, down to every atom, especially because it contrasts fully with capitalism

        My personal belief is better reform than revolution, but with an imperialist power like USA and maybe even Russia and China if you count them it is essentially impossible.

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          but with an imperialist power like USA and maybe even Russia and China if you count them

          It would be silly to discount Russia and China’s imperialism. They’re both on the level of the US, they just lack the power projection to be as bad as the US. But the actions they’ve taken with the level of power projection they have show that fact.

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    23 days ago

    Starting to feel like you also have “lefties” that want progressive policies and don’t give a shit about the working class

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    23 days ago

    Analyzing the image, the color depth, the level of detail, the overall quality, I’m pretty sure this meme is CIA funded. Don’t know how else you could finance it.

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      I’m pretty sure this meme is CIA funded.

      I mean, you joke. But the number of “If you criticize the American Police State, you’re a violent bully” posts on every corner of the internet from accounts with those procedurally generated 4-digit suffixes is a wee bit sus.

      You see the same shit from anti-Luigi memes, anti-piracy memes, and anti-Linux memes. They just aren’t well received.

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        There are only two places in the world that can make that specific shade of red: Kodak Labs and the CIA.

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      Yeah, no way else one could fund a meme like this. There totally aren’t Free image editors out there that let you put text on a stock image.

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    23 days ago

    If you’re going to be a radical leftist, be the “liberalism has betrayed the working class” instead of “daddy Stalin’s cum tastes nice 🥵”.

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      I gotta ask, what exactly is the difference between the Obama “Dronestrikes On Arabs Is Never Wrong” Dickrider Liberal and the Stalinist “driving over Hungarian fascists with your tank is cool af, aktuly” Leftist?

      Because I hear a lot about these Far-Left Tankies. But then I see Western so-called Progressives flood their shorts every time we sodomize leadership in Libya with a rusty knife or carpet bomb hospitals in Gaza or unleash another wave of hack mercenaries on Venezuela. Hell, even MacArthur’s saturation bombing of the Korean Peninsula gets love. Does anyone actually oppose foreign military interventionism? Or is it just taboo when a leftist military leader does it?

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        The first group actually doesn’t really exist AND the group that gets assigned to that category tends to agree that extrajudicial air strikes are bad.

        If the first group actually existed in the way they get categorized and imagined they’d be equally as bad, if not worse for being that dumb in a society where they are “allowed” to know better and think differently, vocally.

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          The first group absolutely fucking exists, gets power, and gets defended by most liberals. The fuck are you talking about?

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            I’m 90% sure it first said “Obama ~~ leftist” before being edited to liberal, which was what I’m commenting on.

            The “liberal” in the USA is not a leftist in the same way a Tankie isn’t.

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        The two of you swapped your L’s

        “Liberalism” is the right-wing one the OP meant, “liberalism” is the overarching concept that is more commonly called “leftism” these days because of the whole “a party called the Liberals existed and were right wing” thing

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    I feel like this meme makes more sense if instead of “Tankies”, the character is labeled “Democrats”.

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      As in Democratic party or as in anti authoritarian?

      Ooops, sorry just saw your instance. It’s now clear.

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        Glad you can turn your brain off so quickly. I bet it helps you sleep. I mean it as: who is an actual greater opponent in reality to “leftists who care about human rights”: online “tankies” or Democrats who literally threw an election to Trump, in part over their refusal to stop actively supporting a genocide? Reassess who your real enemies are, and prioritize your battles based on what is actually happening in the world.

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          I guess greater threat are the tankies currently supporting genocide that sided with Trump for that.

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              OK? Not sure if I’m supposed to fell insulted when you support Daddy Putin, current best ally of Trump. You don’t care about human rights. “West bad” is the only thing your single shared brain cell can say, everything else is an excuse.