• 0xD@infosec.pub
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    9 months ago

    Don’t you think there are better, more recent examples of this?

    (Oh, I missed the instance I was on lol)

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      9 months ago

      ? The most recent one is the ongoing genocide in Palestine that the US and its colony is committing.

      No, “israel” isn’t a separate entity. It was formed as a general western settler colony using british colonization tactics, and is currently functioning as an american one.

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        9 months ago

        China has an active genocide, and they have some pretty strong nationalism and propaganda.

        Russia is currently brutally invading another country, and they don’t even get real elections.

        The fact that the US was the only one of the world’s major powers you could list as an example doing atrocious shit that also has a history with propaganda, is telling.

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              9 months ago

              Idk man. As far as I understood, the main post is about the US, which the comment you replied to also talked about. And then you’re wondering why that person talked about the US and not other countries.

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          The US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, and its government is thus directly or indirectly responsible for a large part of the suffering in the world right now — be it directly through wars, genocides/massacres, sanctions, embargoes, or indirectly through economic imperialism or neocolonialism — so yes, that should be the first country anyone comes up with. Probably also because I happen to be from one of its victim countries.

          China has an active genocide

          All claims of this come from imperial core countries or “independent” orgs funded by its corporations.

          The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and delegates from dozens of Global South countries approve of China’s handling of the ETIM (a problem deliberately created by the US through Afganistan by the way) and deny western claims. This lines up with what the hundreds of millions of annual tourists to the region say.

          Between the western govs responsible for killing, and continuing to kill, millions of muslims in the past few decades alone throughout Africa, Middle-East, Asia, and global south countries without a recent history of doing so (they are the victims rather), I for one know which not to trust.

          Russia

          The US colony has killed three times more civilians in its genocide in the past few months than the Russian military has in 2 years in its proxy war with the US. This isn’t remotely comparable.