Chomsky after the leaks: “How they manufactured age-of-consent laws to target my good friend jeffrey epstein”

• China’s Social Credit System, and how it isn’t actually Black Mirror
• The US has more CCTV’s per capita than China.
• The US’s credit score system is vastly more influential and detrimental to a majority of its population than China’s social credit system, which largely doesn’t even exist, and where it does exist it is only used to target businesses.

Reminds me of this one, and how in the US you can lose your job in academia (and many other sectors) for supporting the BDS movement to boycott Israeli goods:

What are you talking about. What country doesn’t want to boost their economy???

There is no propaganda so unbelievable that liberals won’t unquestioningly eat up about the DPRK.

The BBC and other western media rags for years have been posting articles like: “Kim jong un makes people eat shoes now”, and you all just nod your heads in unquestioning assent.

Off the charts on that one.

From 1 democratic president ago:

• After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
• Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but innocent civilian bystanders, including women, children, and US citizens. 1. Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the Obama administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, 2. The Obama assassination program is detailed in the drone papers.

So many “fell for it again” awards need to be handed out these past few years.

I just banned like 6 of them, dead or no-content accounts.

Liberals using bot accounts to try to manipulate public opinion (as they do on reddit and the rest of the western internet), is gonna be one of the bigger problems in the fediverse for the foreseeable future, so we have to stay ahead of it.

At this point they’re just targeting specific ppl like @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, but they’ll eventually start doing it en masse.

Zenz-maxxing

Such good soundtracks, like almost every one of them puts you in that era.

Liberalism is the ideology of the ruling capitalist class, and supports their “freedom” to extract surplus value from wage workers.

It has many defenders (a few even among the working class!), just like feudalism / monarchism had some peasant-class defenders.

Anyways the class contradictions between workers and capitalists are irreconcilable, are there is no sense trying to “unite” with our exploiters and class enemies.

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

Gottem

😯 why is this not a thing yet.

Pretty much every country lol. Why do you impute the values of like 10 imperialist capitalist countries on the other 190?

There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:

“When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”

Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.

And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.

The current regime in Kiev was installed by a US coup in 2014. Obama even bragged about carrying it out.

There’s like < 10 current countries founded on settler colonialism.

The US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand are the main ones