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[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No you don't understand, it wasn't 80 years of fascist power consolidation and continual capitalist cannibalization since the 70s, It is all Putin manipulating social media causing the material conditions in the Global North. One thing is for sure, no one wrote a book in the nineteenth century describing this exactly.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't understand, the U.S. was sold to Russia in 2016, then it was reclaimed and thanklessly saved by our harm-reduction, lesser-evilism enjoyer (very wholesome), then it was hopelessly sold back again to Russia just recently..

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] I_am_10_squirrels 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks Obama

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here ...

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The author Domenico Losurdo uses the term mutual demystification a lot, especially in Liberalism - a counter history. When two parties accuse each other of being hypocrites, it often ends up showing that they both are.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

I'd like to point out that I'm european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

They don't even try.

[–] JVT038@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago

Lots of populist European parties are doing the same and are actually gaining votes by blaming everything on the immigrants.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

The only wrong part of this meme is the implication that burgers would even try to not blame foreign meddling.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ll start. Go home white people! Go back to where you came from!

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I second this ~a 13th great grandchild of Powhatan.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

This reminded me of that one nando's ad

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Capitalism and First-past-the-post voting.

Capitalists hate competition.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not necessarily foreigners, but rather billionaires that are the problem. They bought off and corrupted government officials long ago, and directed them to perform heinous acts to line their pockets further. The rich have got to be stopped in order for things to get better. I’d prefer to simply tax them out of existence, but there are other means available…

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It's rotten to the core.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England. This is a human problem, not a national one.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

It's not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

Most countries were not founded in this way.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England.

They were pissy that the king made it illegal to expand westward and exterminate all of the indigenous people. They were all "no, actually, the British Empire isn't evil enough. Let's make an even bigger and eviller empire than the [at the time] most evil empire on Earth."

This is a human problem, not a national one.

It is a national and class problem, not a human one. Human nature is a bs concept invented to sell the status quo.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Republicans do, but they blame them on the wrong foreigners. The foreigners causing most of the problems are Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami, and a few others.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Republicans do

Democrats frequently blame all of the USs problems on Russians.

Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami

All three are literally US citizens, and Ramaswamy was literally born in Ohio.

I see that American liberals are white nationalists now.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I’m not a liberal. I just call the rot where I see it, and suggest it be cut out. Where’s Mario’s brother when you need him?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And here you are living the meme.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately. I’d love nothing more than to be able to move my family out of the US.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

It's not like Musk was elected.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

He looks like he's taking a shit

[–] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago

Some random asshole on the internet had a similar challenge when it came to not generalizing 300,000,000 people and sadly failed their challenge :'(