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  • Who do you think had killed John F Kennedy ?

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  • CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.

    JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn't more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles' restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK's murder.

  • Me Buying A Phone From Google Solely Because I Can Put GrapheneOS On It

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  • Lahey and Hunter S Thompson don't seem all that different.

  • The creator of Star Trek: "You met me at a very chinese time in my life"

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  • I don't have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.

    After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.

    Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more:

  • The creator of Star Trek: "You met me at a very chinese time in my life"

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  • The creator of Star Trek: "You met me at a very chinese time in my life"

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  • It is kinda a weird name. Lwaxana is one of the best characters tho, I love her episodes.

    That one where she falls in love with the guy whose culture it is to kill their retirees, that one is really sad.

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    The creator of Star Trek: "You met me at a very chinese time in my life"

  • "China is AuThORItAriAN!" - Liberals

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  • Wrong.

    Is China State Capitalist?

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  • Here's some sources, some even from far-right US journals that have looked into it. It has more to do with regulating businesses and execs found to be in violation anti-trust laws.

    It's really just standard anti-trust / financial legislation, IE things the US used to do before 1980s when they let finance capital take over.

    If you're going to mischaracterize it in the future, at least post some sources.

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  • Just orientalist vibes, no sources in sight.

  • The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

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  • The stuff about corporate "power-speak", where the sociopaths start using certain phrases for their power-games and larger selfish strategies, and the clueless layer try to imitate them but without knowing why, is something I experienced at every workplace.

  • The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

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  • Same. The idea that organizations create a barrier of clueless acolytes to shield the sociopaths at the top from the workers at the bottom makes a lot of sense. I tried to read the whole book he made out of these essays but it wasn't as great as the main ideas.

  • "China is AuThORItAriAN!" - Liberals

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  • Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting... it doesn't make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the "democracy" there is nothing but political theatre.

    Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven't learned this simple lesson.

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  • American values

    The values of the US settler-colonial project, are native eviction, and genocide.

    The values of the indigenous peoples were not considered worthy to the european settlers, so they did their best to wipe out hundreds of peoples/tribes/cultures. You either don't know that history, or worse, you are proud of it.

    I highly suggest reading both An indigenous people's history of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, or her Not a nation of immigrants.

  • "China is AuThORItAriAN!" - Liberals

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  • The PRC would be incredibly naive to let US tech companies in, and take over and hoover up their social media landscape, like so many other countries have done. For example India's most popular communications platform, is facebook. The US effectively controls the social media of a country many times larger than itself, and can influence it whatever way it wants, as well as spy on every person who uses it.

    For those who want to view US-run tech sites in the PRC, they can of course via VPNs which are completely legal, but that friction is very worthwhile for encouraging home-run alternatives, and preventing mass surveillance by an evil empire.

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  • libertarian socialist/communist

    When your socialist / communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so?

    Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don't, about how to establish socialism, "non-authoritarianly"?

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  • but people in US finance everything

    Damn I wonder why they do that. Must have nothing to do poverty. /s

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  • Do you have sources for any of these claims?

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    Thumb-key 5.1.4 Release

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    Lemmy Development Update February 2026

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    The US is a terrorist state

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    Iranian state media confirms death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

    www.nbcnews.com /video/iranian-state-media-confirms-death-of-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-258494021599
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    Top European officials give standing ovation to a Marco Rubio speech, planning to start a new age of colonialism, and revive the 'great Western empires'

    www.geopoliticaleconomy.report /p/marco-rubio-west-colonialism-munich-security-conference
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    Top European officials give standing ovation to a Marco Rubio speech, planning to start a new age of colonialism, and revive the 'great Western empires'

    www.geopoliticaleconomy.report /p/marco-rubio-west-colonialism-munich-security-conference
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    Sign check

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    US Democrats: proud of deportations

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    The global elite

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    Jerboa 0.0.85 Release

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    Thumb-key 5.1.3 Release

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    DPRK rule

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    'Peace president' Trump has bombed 10 countries, now plans $1.5 trillion military budget

    www.geopoliticaleconomy.report /p/trump-bombed-10-countries-trillion-military-budget
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    Dishes

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    Thumb-Key 5.1.1 Release

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    Thumb-key 5.1.0 Release

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    More than half of US families are one paycheck away from homelessness.

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    More than half of US families are one paycheck away from homelessness.

  • Socialism @lemmy.ml
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    Anna Louise Strong on Capitalist "democracy"