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  • US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

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  • Why do democrats need to earn your fucking vote

    Because thats.... how representative democracy works?

    You are taking the position right now that America's descent into fascism can be attributed to Muslim and Arab Americans in Dearborn who decided not to vote for Kamala after she promised to kill their brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon with an extraordinarily "lethal military". These people are the true fascists, according to you.

    Once again, I encourage you to try to understand history in a context that goes back more than two years.

    What we are seeing now is not a new brand of Trumpist imperialism; instead, we are seeing textbook American Imperialism. It's as American as apple pie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War

    I get it. The liberal perspective is not easily palatable right now. In the east, youre getting your lunch eaten by communists who are quickly rising to become the world leader. In the west, fascist elements are eating your lunch as they gain massive ground from Austria to Germany to Britain. And so you flail. You flail to try to understand how this is happening. The liberal philosophy purports that the wheels of history and progress are always moving forward, so what gives? How are we going backwards? Could it be that two hundred years of withered social safety nets, deteriorating education, evasive retirement, withheld wages, weak representation, crumbling infrastructure and transportation, and rampant voter disenfranchisement? No... it is the western communists and Russian bots that are to blame. America has always been wholesome big chungus, and Trump is simply a minor glitch that we will soon find ourselves free from once he dies, and everything can go back to normal.

    Get real, friend. The communists and leftists are your only way out of this one. The same folks, who, by the way, have been warning for nearly 200 years that the American political experiment was doomed to descend into fascism.

  • US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

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  • trump was a known evil.

    So why did democrats do jack shit to prepare? Why did Biden do absolutely nothing for 4 years to protect against a fascist descent that was rocketing towards us at mach 10? Why did democrats decide that perpetrating a genocide in Palestine meant more than winning a monumental election?

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  • Do you seriously think fascism is a result of voter apathy? Voter apathy is a result of fascism.

    The path we're on now was paved by James Monroe. This is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment. I encourage you to try to understand these stories under a context that goes further back than 2 years.

  • History will not be kind to the USA

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  • I dont mean to detract from your point at all here... In fact, PSL is my favorite org in recent memory, but I have yet to join out of fear.

    I hope this comment doesn't come across as FUD because I certainly don't want to steer people away from organizing, but.... do you ever fear that getting your name on paperwork in one of these orgs could jeopardize your safety? Shit is happening so fast in America right now that I am straight up afraid of organizing. Im thinking of a scenario where PSL headquarters gets raided, and everyone who shows up on an active members list gets shipped to El Salvador.

    Kind of a disjointed reply, but I guess all I really wanted to say is that shit is getting really scary right now, and I'm not even part of a vulnerable group. I'm afraid.

    Maybe the answer is that, yes, joining a leftist organization during fascist descent does incur massive risks, but that is the necessary burden that American leftists must take for the sake of the people we are oppressing? Maybe now is the time to be brave?

  • BREAKING: Death toll from US operation in Venezuela has risen to 80, according to New York Times report.

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  • To be clear, American meddling in Latam is not something that Trump introduced or invented.

    Trump's recent meddling and murder in Venezuela is the culmination of two hundred of years of American foreign policy that both Democrats and Republicans have condoned at the behest of their corporate overlords. The Venezuela debacle is not a Trump thing. It's an American thing that has its roots in the Monroe doctrine, and yes, including Obama.

  • GOAT

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  • "My name is ASAC Schrader"

  • The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

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  • 😡How could Putin do this! 😡

  • China at Extermination and Denial Stages in Uyghur Genocide, Report Finds

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  • Lmao, OP, I am once again asking you to drop evidence of a Uyghur grnocide that does not immediately recycle Radio Free Asia or Adrien Zenz talking points.

    If you actually read this "new" report, youll find there is very little new content - aside from whatever new pieces RFA has put out this year.

    At this point, you can look at the sources for this "new" article and notice it leans HEAVILY on another report from Rian Thum

    Eight Years On, China’s Repression of the Uyghurs Remains Dire: How China’s Policies in the Uyghur Region Have and Have Not Changed,”

    And what happens if we look at this reports references?

    Just more circular references to Zenz.

    (This one is especially funny, because in the intro, they talk all high and mighty about how their ONLY sources are primary Chinese documents from the state, or leaks from the state. And in the footnote, they basically say "yeah we cant read this, so see what our buddy Zenz had to say about it" despite the fact that that Zenz doesnt speak Chinese. The same Zenz who says Hitler had good ideas on population control, by the way)

    This OP is draped in congressional language, and its got the length to boot... But this is not a new report. This is not even an investigation. This is essentially the US government dropping a summary of all of their new RFA pieces that have dropped this year. I encourage anyone lookin at these reports to be critical of RFA and Zenz. Having an ounce of skepticism will immediately reveal that the vast majority of the times, these China hit pieces on Uyghurs are just circular references of Zenz and RFA.

  • The myth of China's stolen EUV machine meets reality: it hasn't made a single chip

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  • There have also been rumors that a Cymer EUV source was intercepted during transit and reverse-engineered in a covert Chinese lab. But even if individual components were acquired, Tom's Hardware notes that such efforts are unlikely to produce a working system. Without the integrated software and supplier collaboration that make EUV viable, the hardware alone is effectively inert.

    "China will never achieve domestic lithography!"

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    "China will never make a domestic 90nm node!"

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    "China will never achieve 20nm nodes via DUV!"

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    "China will never achieve 7nm nor EUV!"

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    "China will never get their EUV prototype working!"

    Article seems like cope.

  • The myth of China's stolen EUV machine meets reality: it hasn't made a single chip

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  • Happy Freedom day!

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  • A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful

    In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.

    In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR

    Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.

    In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.

    A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.

    A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.

    Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union

    Further, let's look at the actual referendum:

    Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?

    Yes - 77.8%

  • Another plot hole nitpick with Pluribus (mild spoilers)

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  • I think the writers are illustrating that the "non-intervention" policy is bunk. We see Kusimayu initially loving her animals. After she joins, she callously lets the goat escape from the pen despite the goat appearing to be attached to her. She just condemned that goat to a brutal death in the Peruvian wilderness despite their "no harm" policy. I think it's less a plot hole and more of an exploration of the validity of the plurbs philosophy.

    I've been absolutely loving how polarizing this show is.

  • Anthony Joshua is my fucking hero

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  • Paul can wipe away his tears in his pile of money. Estimates are putting it at 100 million from his bout with Joshua.

    Sowing his own hatred is how he makes his money. Best if we just forget about him.

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • You replied that Stalinism couldn’t be worse than the Tsarist system.

    Where did I claim this?

    we mean compared to an easy-to-imagine, common-sense alternative for that time and place.

    Why is this your comparison?? If the claim is that Stalin "showed up" and things got worse, it follows that your point of analysis would be comparing against whatever immediately preceded Stalin.

    This is like if someone claims capitalism makes things worse

    Actually, it's not at all like this... a better comparison would be if someone said "capitalism showed up and made things worse"

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • Im not sure I follow. Are you saying the conception of a Soviet Union was easy/destined/inevitable given how bad the Tsars were?

    I'm not sure I understand your point about feudalism either. Marxists understand capitalism as an economic development built upon feudalism - of which there were many benefits in abandoning, as well as many new evils.

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • but when you make everything else worse

    By what metrics? In which ways was Tsarist Russia better about serving citizens than Soviet leadership?

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I’m tired

    [https://lemmy.ml/post/39531321/22458346](Dis u?)

    we don’t have capitalism. But fuck any ism, just find the broken shit and fix it.

    On a crusade against whitewashing and fascism, yet cannot confront capitalism..

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • So... why didnt you just say "I fear this is just a front to instill reactionary patriotism for the greater purpose of ushering in American fascism - akin to the Hitler youth"

    And instead smugly claimed I was ushering in fascism??

    It's a fair point, and I'd have conceded it to you...

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained

    Wat.... when did I say any of that....

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • You think it's actually going to be executed perfectly like that under this administration?

    Maybe not, but I never said it had to be executed perfectly. In fact it's probably fair to say the first one might be a little clunky.

    Until it's revealed that the participants will be killing each other, the Hunger Games comparison is a funny gag, but I dont see how it seriously applies.

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