Imperialist? You have a strange relationship with that word.

I think that’s a good point and it’s something I run into often. It seems like everyone expects propaganda to be so obvious and clumsy that, when it happens, they’ll be able identify it immediately. But it turns out that what we’re guarding our minds against is anything contrary to our existing world view, not the things we’ve already uncritically accepted. And what we’ve accepted are largely things we’ve observed through the lens of media.

It’s also hard for people to imagine the massive scope of such a conspiracy and how it could be so well organized. It’s easy to explain how media employment bias works in a hierarchy of personal interest, but that system doesn’t work perfectly and it generates a lot of contradictions which I think westerners have conditioned themselves to simply ignore. Even I want to imagine the propaganda machine to be an elegant and cunning device, but the real workhorse seems to just come down to writing “China/Russia/Iran Bad” headlines enough times. Getting past that bias with americans has been the biggest challenge in my experience. It’s pretty depressing.

It was virtually nothing but ignorant and hysterical ukraine hawks when I left. I’m sure it’s so much worse now that I really don’t even want to look.

Just in the last few years, looking at the deliberate efforts of cutting off all diplomatic relations with Russia. Banning and smearing all foreign opposition media. Assassination of diplomats. Rampant militarized racism. Trade wars. Mass sanctioning and coups of any nation who opposes US war interests. Endlessly blocking UN efforts. Endlessly blocking hostage negotiations. Constant escalations… It really establishes that the US and it’s allies have completely lost interest in any form of diplomacy and seem to be preemptively closing those exits just to keep any form of diplomatic resolution off the table, thus ensuring a hot world war to keep the military economy running.

Interesting choice to omit Isntreal as the original source for these claims. Is CNBC admitting that creates a credibility problem?

Mr. Beast and China are censoring my freeze peach! I need to log into a social media website conspicuously owned by a US defense industry contractor and let everyone know the truth some shit I just made up 30 seconds ago!

Good on her. Hard to believe there are still people tryna drink that US-backed HK color revolution koolade, but they should keep a close eye on Kiev and Taiwan while enjoying their comfort, peace and prosperity in HK.

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Oh no! The illusion of amerikkkan democracy will end! Anyway…

“Venezuela’s struggle is Israel’s struggle”

Yep. Gulag.

Can we please stop saying “left wing liberal” or implying in any way whatsoever that such a thing does or could exist? Liberalism is a hard-right ideology down to the core and slapping vacuous identity politics stickers on it to get more votes does not move the needle a nanometer. At bare minimum, the left begins at anti-capitalism, otherwise it’s just right-wing infighting.

Cool, now do Iraq.

I keep finding it weird how the US floated destroying TSMC “So tHe ChiNEsE cANt HaVe iT”. You’d think that would be enough to give some rich assholes very cold feet about separatism.

No, I’m not supporting that statement. It’s too reductive and I understand why you have some very raw nerves on the subject; I certainly do.

I think we may be interpreting the intent a little differently, though. I mostly feel like I’m just helplessly drowning in sadness and horror in front of a screen all the time, and I generally try to cope with satire or sarcasm. I try to avoid being quite this glib or insensitive, but I probably fuck that up a lot, too. Reads that way to me at least.

On the other hand, if Zelenskyy negotiates peace directly, the next NATO-proxy government will just throw it out because his presidency is illegitimate. Which could be used to buy the time the Kiev regime has been looking for. Seems to be why Russia recently said they are open to peace talks, but consider trusting Ukraine to be impossible.

I’d love to see the next Ukrainian government (assuming the world doesn’t end first) just re-seize all those sold-off assets for the state. NATO would probably just implode.

Obviously the answer is the US. We all know that. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a huge domestic nazi problem, either. As much as it saddens me, the historical presence of those forces is fertile soil for western imperialism and will continue to be so until the prevailing social current is to fight fascism rather than collaborate with it.

Not blaming Ukrainian voters, but we should also just accept by this point that Zelenskyy tricked a lot of people into believing he wanted to reunify the country and (somewhat) normalize things with Russia. “Electing” a US-coup puppet was never going to end well, regardless of the vibes. I do think, however, most people who did vote for him were honestly believed they were voting to end the atrocities.

Human beings learn more from a just a tiny fraction of the input that LLMs require. It’s pretty convenient that tech bros always want to pump bigger and bigger datasets as a solution to the shittyness of LLMs, rather than admit humans are vastly more important, skilled, original, creative and interesting than a fucking gigawatt-sucking datacenter.

The present “AI” trend is yet another planet incinerating scam predicated and entirely reliant on the continued theft of human creativity for the sole benefit of capital.

I think you’re making the assumption that the US needs proxy forces to win a war, rather than just do some terrorism or assassinations. A seizure of weapons this size tells me there are probably more that have not yet been discovered.