Arcturus

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The One True American^TM^

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

No other country controls the global financial system like the US, and imperial core countries in general, does through its dollar hegemony and global monopolies.

Which is natural, since the entire modern world, its institutions and trade systems, are built on the past few centuries of brutal colonization of the rest of the world by western europe and japan.

finger pointing

Acknowledging reality isn't "finger pointing".

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (37 children)

Acknowledging that the US has been the leader of the imperial core — the countries that have been colonizing the rest of the world for 500 years now — since WW2 is the realistic, materialist view.

Only difference now is that it's changed form to mainly the economic subjugation (neocolonialism) of "former" colonies through unequal exchange under capitalism rather than direct military subjugation — though the US still has a major actual settler colony committing a genocide in Palestine right now.

Any country that tries to escape this system (by nationalizing its resources to prevent extraction by unequal exchange, usually by establishing a socialist state) is sanctioned (DPRK, Vietnam in the past, Zimbabwe etc), embargoed (Cuba), overthrown (Chile, Burkina Faso etc), or invaded (Vietnam, Libya, Korea, etc).

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would be a very different comment section if that was a blue hat lmao

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Damn I wanna be a high priestess of athena polias

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The comment I replied to also had 4 upvotes and some downvotes in 1 or 2 minutes. Just means the thread is active.

Edit: Most of the new comments not taking the US's side also have exactly 3 downvotes right now. Are those alts? Lol

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

China denies it

Who cited China?

The majority of countries denying the western claims are muslim-majority Global South ones

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

incredibly wealthy own the country

I wish people just said "the capitalist class"...

Makes it more obvious what the problem is and What Is To Be Done (working class revolution and overthrow).

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

? 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 in Palestine using british colonization tactics, and has been functioning as an american one.

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I like how some people are claiming americans are aware of this lol

If most americans were sufficiently aware and organizing against it accordingly (if they're not organizing, they're not aware enough) the imperialist gov would already have been toppled.

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