dessalines

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

The US has by far the worse human rights record, and is easily the most evil empire in world history. They just killed over a million innocent civilians a few years ago in Iraq, running torture camps and assassination programs. Its perpetrated countless atrocities in nearly every single country .

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No elected liberal leader has decried this ongoing genocide. Every single one supports Israel, and other settler colonial projects just like it. Liberal countries have been the main perpetrators of colonialism in the modern era, so this is nothing surprising.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Liberal means you support capitalist rule over society, and also their preferred model of governance (bourgeios parliamentarism / capitalist dictatorship) as being "superior" to any alternatives, and especially the existing socialist alternatives.

Also since this model was first adopted by three colonialist western countries (UK, US, and Netherlands) in the 1700s, and adopted by most of western europe shortly after, it mostly coincides with a strong belief in white / western supremacy, as being the only "legitimate" form of governance.

The best book I could recommend here, is Losurdo's Liberalism - A counter history.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's implied that the predator did kill a lot of them, otherwise they wouldn't have the demon legend.

But predators also have a stricter moral code than humanity's big game / trophy / regular hunters, who mostly kill defenseless creatures. They won't kill anything unarmed, or who can't harm. And in predator 2 they refuse to kill a captured prey (danny glover) that successfully defended himself and killed one of their own, and even give him one of their trophies out of respect.

Overall tho hunting is an activity mostly done by bored bourgeois parasites... the villian of the short story the most dangerous game is a russian tsarist aristocrat who hunts people for fun.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US's bourgeois "democracy", genocided an entire continent, and committed countless atrocities across the globe.

The "authoritarian" label never gets levelled at the US, great britain, france, or other imperialist powers who carved up the global south and bled it for hundreds of years. It only gets used against their enemies, who dared rise up and fought back against colonialism.

Even fascism is far less effective than bourgeois parliamentarism at killing millions of innocent people. The nazi's failed to accomplish in eastern europe, what the US successfully carried out and its liberal democracy is still carrying out in north america.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

these sort of deals enables Nazis to conquer much of Europe.

Stalin offered a million men to France and the UK to stop the nazis. They refused.

Meanwhile, your country was literally in the Axis in WW2, and helped the nazis carry out their atrocities.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Your country fought on the side of the Nazis in WW2, and helped them carry out the scorched earth policy you absolutely won't forgive the USSR for turning back.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In case people aren't aware, the Victims of Communism foundation is a US government organization that was set up by an act of congress in 1993.

Congress also passed a bill funding them to design highschool curriculum, called the "crucial communism teaching act".

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