• TheBlue22@lemmy.world
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    And then people wonder why everyone hates China. “Why do people complain when they claim territory that isn’t theirs?!?! US dID iT tOo!!!1!”

    Dunno, tell me in last 30 years, when did US commit and kept commiting an active genocide? Do they suppress other language than american? Do they tell Canadians or Mexicans that they “belong” to them and feint invasion?

    As a european, its good to have US by our side because I know that when a shit dictatorship shithole like China or Ruzzia attacks, they will be the first to bomb them to the stone ages.

    Fuck China. Fuck Ruzzia. And fuck anyone who supports them.

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      to be fair, America also has 2 million people in jail & 100 million with arrest records. we are not too far from a police state

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      Well, the FBI has been treating the citizens of supposed “sovereign nations” pretty badly the entire time. We still are shitty to the Native Americans. That being said, just cause the US is shitty, doesn’t absolve the CCP of their shitty behavior.

      • TheBlue22@lemmy.world
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        I agree that US did and still does many shitty things. However, China and Ruzzia are so much worse that it’s almost incomparable.

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      (Let me preface this comment with the fact I oppose what the Chinese and Russian government are doing)

      Is this a joke? The US tell people in Hawaii and Puerto Rico they belong to them and still do terrible shot to Indigenous people and try their best to erase their languages and cultures. They also invaded and killed how many innocent people in the middle east?

      They continue to support Saudi Arabia with weapons and billions of dollars, they support the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians, they continue trying to starve Cubans with their sanctions and blockade…

      The Chinese government is doing fucked up shit but its absurd to think the US government hasn’t been committing atrocities for decades. Also, the Uyghur people being forced to work are making also making products like Nike. Nestle privatizes water and spreads propaganda so women stop breastfeeding to sell their powdered milk and Chiquita Banana committed massacres in Columbia in the 2000s…

      Now the US is contemplating invading Mexico to “stop” the drugs from the cartels the US funds and arms by buying their products and selling guns they know will go to shady people. Also the US was flooding crack into Black communities to fund illegal wars and bombed a house in a Black community and assassinated almost all the civil rights leaders…

      And “as a European” maybe you should read about all the fucked up stuff France has done and continues to do and why so many countries in Africa are ousting leaders and hate France. Or read about why Haiti is in the position they’re in. Or read about all the racist and fascist shit going on in Italy, or what Spain is doing to Catalonia and trying to do to the Catalonian language. Or read about the racist remarks the foreign policy chief of the EU said about how europe is a “garden” and the rest of the world is a “jungle” that could invade… The rest of the world is mostly in the positions they are in because of what Europeans have done in history.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It is really easy as an American to forget what our country is doing. Our news is geniously tuned to distract us and mislead us. So thanks for the reminder. Last time I tried to explain the US genocide situation I ended up just posting a pepe instead of jogging my memory for all the details you were able to share.

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          Yeah, it’s hard to be a database of this shit.

          At some point, we should just have a public repository of all the information necessary and update it accordingly.

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        And what’s crazy is this isn’t even close to a full list, huge things like the pollution in the Niger Delta caused by European and American oil companies, destruction of natural habitats and poisoning of water tables, funding terrorist groups and despots to get access to oil and mineral reserves…

        It’s not even as if we’re working towards a noble goal, it’s all just a shit fight so rich people can get richer.

      • Pat12@lemmy.worldOP
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        racist and fascist shit going on in Italy

        This, frankly, is a consequence of the illegal immigration/migration (whatever you want to call it) from the last decade into europe and the impact its had on society

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          Major yikes… blaming fascism and racism on the victims instead of the white supremacists who fucked up the world by contributing so much to climate change, destabilizing countries, and propping up dictators causing the people to become refugees.

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      Can we differentiate between the people and the state or government here? I don’t want the us to bomb anyone because there’s no way it doesn’t hurt innocent people.

      I wish power to the people of both China, Russia, Hong Kong to be able to influence their political climate in a way that works best for their actual health and well-being.

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        It’s very difficult to not want Ruzzia bombed to dust when they killed my friends.

        I hate ruzzia with every fibre of my being, and it’s no one fault but theirs.

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      Your argumentation is similar to that of tankies. The US undeniably did shady shit to maintain hegemony over the last century and the whole past 911 thing was an unreasonable fiasco that cost the lives of over a million people.
      It’s just that autocracy is no alternative in any form and it’s the biggest enemy of a free world.

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        Never said US is good, just good to have at our side.

        US is bad, but China and Ruzzia is infinitely worse. Like uncomparably worse. If you are under the wing of US and you diasagree, 99.99% chance fuckall happens. If you do the same under the other two, you are jailed or you die.

        I don’t blindly defend my state or ally states. Tankies like you do.

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        Not sure why you got downvoted. I don’t know what a tankie is, but the rest is spot on.

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          Tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian communists, specifically people who think the systems of the USSR/China are something to aspire to. It is a term used since the 1960s to describe people who supported the USSR in using tanks to squash the Hungarian and Czechoslovak revolutions that aimed to create democratic communist systems.

          In practice however, tankies just tend to be anti US / anti West, and will support anything that is opposing them, such as the theocratic regime in Iran which is as far from communistic ideals as humanly possible. For further information, look at the Wikipedia article. If you wish to enter the zoo where we keep them, go to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml .

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            Oh wow, now I understand why I disagree with them so much. Being communist is one thing, but being antidemocratic is a whole other thing. Thanks for the explanation!

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          I can’t even see downvotes as I’m on kbin. I think I see the difference between up- and downvotes which should be at +9 at the moment.

          Tankies are basically communists that are mainly anti west to the point that they support autocratic countries like china and north Korea.