Haiti about to be viewed as a global threat, same like Iraq which turned out to be a lie or Vietnam who was just defending its country against whypipo.
Also, what ARE you critical about then? What about the current day military industrial complex is wrong, if it’s not its never ending imperialist expansion to other countries?
some of that MIC money could go to giving white people healthcare ofc
ahhh there it is, succ dems are just “socialism for us, barbarism for everyone else” or as I’ve actually heard it espoused, “someone has to make the shoes”.
tbh the “even as a succ dem…” sounds a lot like “i’m not a racist, but…”
It’s basically the same thing, just for blue maga types
“Im as left as they come, however…”
“i’m not an imperialist, but…”
Now, I know the USA isn’t perfect. But,
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Or what about these developing countries with
natural resourcesEVIL REGIMES can’t have those man“Do you think Kuwait was asking for it?!” - a lib acquaintance of mine after I made an ultra mild comment regarding USA in middle East
Absolute monarchist separatist movement funded by the West vs. pan-Arabist socialist nation that’s been dealing with said separatist monarchists for over 60 years? Tough choice
Wasn’t Kuwait stealing oil from Iraq?
No idea, sorry. I know precisely nada about that conflict and the processes that lead to it
China/Russia/[insert geopolitical enemy of the West] is worse!
And if someone they don’t like dares to say anything like this about an imperialist country, they’ll whine about whataboutism.
Whataboutism is one of the worst terms that was mainstreamed. At this point I don’t even know what it means because it’s been used in every context ever.
The US is the biggest purveyor of violence and imperialism in the world. Right now, other countries are reacting to problems caused by US actions, such as meddling in Ukraine.
I have a feeling this person is either ignorant of the origins of the term “gunboat diplomacy”, or legitimately thinks it was a good thing
As long as they benefit it’ll always be a good thing to them, just with the occasional virtue signalling to mask it lol.
People like this infuriate me: the kind of people who think they’re thinking critically, who are 100% sure that their position is the enlightened one, and talk down about perspectives that are born from actually thinking critically.
They live in a special kind of ignorance that isn’t just obstinate, but resistant to change and devoid of self awareness. They’re the ideological bastion of a system that shits on humanity.
not just talking down about perspectives borne out of critical thought, but perspectives that are widely popular and understood to be true within the global south, i.e. the majority of the global population lol. most people across the world fucking hate the US and for good reason given the effect it’s had on their lives, but someone on the exploiting end of that relationship has a much harder time understanding that
What no diamat does to a mfer. Not even joking - this is the same kind of idealistic thought process that gives birth to superstition and religion.
Y’know, it’s not often I catch myself thinking Trekkies were a mistake; but goddammit, here we are.
The issue is not with Trek or even Trekkies, the issue is media convincing people that the path to bright star trek future lies with liberal capitalism and US led world order
This is what amazes me about these people. Like, do they really think that our current world is not near the endgoal of the US foreign policy? Having most of the other countries be a slave to the US?
Do they really think that if the US could fully have its way with the world, that it would improve? They can’t even do that for their own population.
Yes, it certainly looks that way. They blame the current risk of nuclear annihilation on “that evil totalitarian pooten” and “xinnie the pooh”, instead of looking in the mirror. And they will show NASA’s Mars exploration programs as “proof”.
lol Nasa is so underfunded. CNSA is accelerating and is probably gonna hit a lot of milestones first while NASA is getting fucked over with non functional lowest bidder contracts they can’t pay anyway. Doesn’t exactly make one proud of the USA.
But they post pretty pictures from Hubble and Curiosity and that’s all that matters
Now it’s pictures from Perseverance and James Webb—and I certainly do enjoy the pretty pictures. The impression I get is a bunch of very passionate scientists trying to do something with the table scraps of the military-industrial complex.
Trek’s non-interventionism is basically what china does: societies must solve their own internal problems and the federation doesn’t get involved. This person is arguing against that.
Of course blanket non-interventionism is naive and has limits, which deep space nine gets into, but this person is using it to push for US imperialism, extremely shameful.
Country destroys 90% of native population and this poster thinks the US is the most benevolent in history.
They’re still working on that last 10% right now. None of their tribes has an automous region for themselves, unlike the Uyghurs.
It sometimes feels like you have to literally tattoo every American crime onto these people’s bodies to make them remember they should not be defending their country in any way
I don’t think this guy understands that the US is literally the biggest global threat. I wonder if he was one of the people bragging about Ukraine victory over weak Russia at the start of the war, but are now saying Ukraine would’ve been fucked without NATO because it’s an innocent baby needing protection from evil Russia. So Ukraine (government and military, not civilians) is super badass and strong, but also needs all the guns and money because the Russians are super mean and evil, but also weak and stupid.
Also, I thought Russia was, initially, only “taking” specific “Russian-occupied” (npr term not mine) regions on its border because they held a vote to separate from Ukraine. All of my most accessible information on this situation is filled with western-bias so I’m not sure on all the details. I thought the people in those regions were being abused by Azov, or something, and decided it was safer to be a part of Russia.
Is Russia still only fighting to keep those regions and push NATO away, or is it actually going for all of Ukraine? I have a lot of doubts that Russia would actually attempt this but I admit I’m ignorant to the details. Google is an removed when looking for info and my local news is, at best, super vague; or at worst, severely sensationalized with clear bias and propaganda.
It’s not “Russian-occupied”, but “historically Russian” and by that we mean “50% of all Ukraine’s land was given by Russia to Ukraine throughout the Soviet period, to lift Ukraine up and as a thank you to the Ukrainian communists.”
No one cared about that at the time, because they were part of the Soviet Union.Russia is likely going for 50% and has about 20%.
Yeah, I added that term to show what type of language is being used in suggested media pushed in my area. It’s gross and dehumanizing to call people just living their lives “occupiers”.
I didn’t realize Ukraine used to be smaller than it is before the Soviet Union so thanks for the info.
Do you think Putin should push for 50%? I’m kind of conflicted at the moment due to all of the politics going on with this war.
Yes Putin should push for 50% when the majority there wants Russia in and NATO out.
The other side of the nation is still supporting Zelensky all the way and hating on Russia, but it’s going to be a question of for how long, because the US blowing up the Nordstream pipeline was a very very very very bad idea and is going to have irreparable very long-term consequences between the EU and the US, the economy and security of the EU and the economy and security of the US.
Thanks for letting me know! Honestly had no idea that much of Eastern Ukraine wanted to go back to Russia.
I’ve seen news of the people in France and Germany getting very restless, which is putting it mildly. Canada seems to be taking advantage of the crisis to sell gas to Europe at a premium price. Really shot themselves in the foot.
Listening to the RevLeft episode on Democratic Socialists right now when I come upon this trash take lol
Knew I was in for a whole lot of libshit right from the moment I saw “Star Trek” in the first sentence.
Trek is one of the very few openly communist media franchises tho. The person even had to throw out trek’s “prime directive”, its main anti-imperialist / non-interventionism clause to make their ideas work.
