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  • Because the socialist government in Venezuela nationalized the oil industry in 2007, which provoked an exodus of foreign oil companies, including American corporations like Exxon. If you look at the past decade, it was clear that an invasion was imminent, given the threatening statements and harsh sanctions by every US administration in the past.

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  • The invasion of Carcas especially has to do with oil. The socialist government in Venezuela nationalized the oil industry in 2007, which provoked an exodus of foreign oil companies. And before the operation took place, Trump consulted with Exxon executives on the attack.

  • Explosions heard over Venezuelan capital Caracas amid US tensions

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  • Question, even if what you're saying was true, what does it serve in the context of discussing the US military intervention in a sovereign country? Besides legitimating the US and its actions, that is.

  • Explosions heard over Venezuelan capital Caracas amid US tensions

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  • What you're saying is different from what they implied. They instead want to shift the narrative to other countries, because should I speak of a "good thing" of another country, they would instantly retort about it and thus lead the original discussion astray, that is, that the United States is an imperialist war machine that serves the interests of its upper class. You don't need comparison to evaluate US war crimes and crimes against humanity, unless you want to delve into whataboutism.

    What IS an example of something good?

    The US not intervening militarily politically and economically in other countries.

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  • I understand that you're trying to push the goal posts, so I am disengaging.

  • Explosions heard over Venezuelan capital Caracas amid US tensions

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  • Why should you bring up other countries when we're discussing the US? Especially when the US is not like any other country but the center of global imperialism?

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  • Explosions heard over Venezuelan capital Caracas amid US tensions

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  • As a global south citizen, we never received any "good things" from the USA. Only war and destruction, a century before Trump.

  • Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989

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  • Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]

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  • This is why there has been a shift to other federated platforms like Piefed and Kbin.

  • Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]

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  • So commendable of them to compile a list of our based posts.

    (Except for Nutomic's borderline transphobic comments)

  • Algeria demands reparations from France, causing the predisposed European brainpan to generate lethal concentrations of Hitler particles on r/europe

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  • Like half of the comments are removed

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • Of course building them would still have a cost, but they wouldn't be sold as a commodity to create surplus value for a few pockets.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • This tells me quite enough that you don't know what fascism actually means.

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  • If you've come to look at a given architectural style (or any object for that matter) in its abstracted, ahistorical form, then you may not find much value nor truth to what it actually signifies. You must instead look at the material conditions that led to its creation.

    First of all brutalist architecture emerged in the USSR after the end of WW2 after the economy and the entire infrastructure of the country were entirely wiped out. Simplified construction techniques using concrete were revolutionary in the sense that they were efficient and easy to streamline on a national scale for millions of people on the one hand, while being cost effective on the other hand. Whilst the rate of homelessness was not decreasing (if not increasing) in capitalist economies, socialist countries were at the vanguard of providing free housing for everyone.

    In short, brutalist architecture was shaped by the material conditions of the post-war era and developed further as the economy progressed in later decades. This is simply because policies and social and cultural phenomena are not the mere product of ideas and thoights as much as the material conditions which are the basis for every human movement.

    Secondly, the term "brutalist" does not give credit to what the Soviets and other socialist countries have achieved in the architectural fields. Most pictures that are publicized on the Internet picture either abandoned and unmaintained buildings or pictures that are taken in the gloomiest period of winter, since this id what is believed to fit the narrative or the "aesthetics" of socialist architecture.

    Lastly, in reality there isn't really an artistic style that dictates what leftist architecture should look like. If you search through pictures of Soviet architecture or even DPRK or PRC architecture for something recent, you will find that they vary so much in colors and shapes, because it all depends on the architect's individual and distinct taste. Rather, what distinguishes leftist (or your so-called "authoritarian") architecture is that it serves the needs of the proletariat, contrary to capitalist societies that boast about their individualism.

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  • That moment when ensuring housing for everyone and eradicating homelessness is considered "authoritarian architecture".

    And let's pretend like we know what makes architecture "authoritarian."

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  • The PRC is fascist now? The same country that endured brutal massacres fighting fascist japanese soldiers? This is how crucial terms lose all meaning and risk getting bannalized by right-wing reactionaries.

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    "You are just a paid marxist". This is what Rep. Carlos Giménez and Mario Díaz-Balart responded when confronted on Venezuela.

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  • Where are the Maduro buckaroonies I was promised 3000 years ago!!!!

  • Donald, the tradional european way of life called. You sure?

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  • The legacy of colonialism still lives on for the simple fact that the colonial institutions are yet mostly in place: European missionary schools, banana "republics", colonial banks, unfair agreements between the Western powers and their ex colonies, and so forth. The local elites of the Global South play an intermediary role between the West and the Global South. They are first taught Western values and ideologies by prestigious Western institutes then sponsored and brought to power by either "international" financial institutes like the IMF and the World Bank or foreign political bureaus, in order to act in the service and interest of the West. Their entire pedagigical and political formation is brewed outside their respective nation and tailored in way that is suitable for the West to continue its hegemonic role in a more discrete manner.

    And the cold war leaders you mentioned (Amin and Suharto) further prove my point, both being dictators that were propped up by the British colonial army and the United States, respectively, and both having led crackdowns against (leftist) native uprisings. (And please do not conflate historical personalities from different historical periods with their own specificities that cannot be liberally contrasted with the modern era.)

    I say all of this not because of some ancient, historical hatred to the West, nor as an apologia for our corrupt, western-backed governments. This is just the reality we third world citizens are still experiencing to this day. To quote Michel-Rolph Trouillot:

    Injustices made to previous generations should be redressed: they affect the descendants of the victims. But the focus on The Past often diverts us from the present injustices for which previous generations only set the foundations.

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    F-droid apps in my "favourites" list

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    Lo and behold, the bourgeois gaslighting machine!

    www.reddit.com /r/self/comments/1nwan1k/nothing_worth_having_in_life_comes_easily/
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    Considering suicide? You might want to read Cioran's “The Trouble with Being Born” before doing so.

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Any active forks of ViMusic/ViTune?

  • Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Herero and Nama Genocide - In 1904, Germany led thousands of natives in South West Africa to the desert where they died of dehydration, and subsequently imprisoned more in concentration camps.

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
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    Dracunculiasis - A worm disease contracted by drinking infested water which penetrates the body and induces a painful blister from which a worm slowly emerges.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dracunculiasis
  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Yegor & Opizdenevshiye - Eternal Spring (1992)

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    A review of Thomas Pynchon's “Mason & Dixon” (NO spoilers)

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    TW: Explicit descriptions of death

    Nathan Thrall | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

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    Updates to LinkedIn's Terms of Service

    www.linkedin.com /blog/member/trust-and-safety/updates-to-our-terms-of-service-2024
  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
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    J. Moufawad-Paul - The Communist Necessity | Philosophy Instrumentals Ep.26

  • Literature @beehaw.org
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    Witches, zombies, vampires in Ottoman Empire through narrative of traveler Evliya Çelebi

    www.dailysabah.com /arts/reviews/witches-zombies-vampires-in-ottoman-empire-through-narrative-of-traveler-evliya-celebi
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    A Review of Jessica Whyte's “The Morals of the Market” (2019)

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    Why is Soviet literature so obscure? (or, a mini feedback on Bulgakov's Master and Margarita)

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    Why is Soviet literature so obscure? (or, a mini feedback on Bulgakov's Master and Margarita)

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    My review of “Orientalism” (1978) by Edward W. Said

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    The Historical Awareness of Khairy Al-Zahaby's “The Trap of Names” (2009)

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    A Review of Eduardo Galeano's “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” (2013)