Yeah the us would never force anyone off of land.

Simply trying to compare kill counts like history is call of duty only serves to dehumanize the victims.

In my view, just one aspect of the U.S. makes it the worst country ever: its role in the ecological crisis. The us is like three corporations in a trench coat, and a us corporation knew about anthropogenic climate change and kept that internal, and that's just one instance of fuckery where there are plenty more. That's the international elephant in the room which nobody seems willing to talk about. We need to also consider all the future atrocities as well as those in the past.

I think assassination as a political tool is a few millennia too old to be just a putin thing.

Ah, the same Reporters Without Borders gaslighting the world about journalist deaths in Gaza?

You know how it's frustrating when far right reactionaries roll up in lib spaces on reddit spewing propaganda the sources of which they haven't investigated critically? That's you. You're doing that here. Please stop.

Human Rights Watch? Seriously? Do you look into your sources at all, or are you just happy to spread imperial apologia?

Wikipedia is a terrible source for current affairs.

Your attempts to smear the three gorges dam project are part of a tradition older than the Internet. Of course, the human rights watch was all over that propaganda.

This, unironically.

If your "circle jerks" involve discussing the nuances of history and political theory, that's just a discussion.

If your "circle jerks" involve spreading imperial lies and frothing at the mouth for genocide, that's a problem.

Unfortunately, it seems the latter is much more acceptable on the Internet overall.

This question only serves to enable mudslinging while hiding behind a homophobic term.

I hope you take a moment and reflect on why you insist on approaching comparative history in this way.

Not even just left to the streets. Many cities are death marching the homeless around, arresting, terrorizing, and stealing personal property of the homeless every step of the way.

https://projects.propublica.org/...

I mean, the Black Panthers murdered by the state are heroes in my eyes, ya know? That seems like a strange argument. As bleak as it is to mention, I feel I must point out that having only the fear of future violence while others must face violence presently is a privilege. The good thing is that getting involved in organizing is also a privilege, the other side of the coin I guess you could say. Way I think about it, you're gonna live with the fear of state violence already, so the fear from organizing is marginal, possibly negligible.

For clarification's sake, the coin is capitalism.

The term is so loaded with homophobia that's it practically useless.

There are communities where leftists can openly discuss leftist theory and (to a lesser extent) praxis without being permabanned for thought crime like most spaces.

I find that fun. I haven't had the opportunity to join a circle jerk, but it sounds fun to me. So, in that sense, the answer to your question is a tentative, horny yes.

Just because it's not one of two flavors of democracy in favor in the "west" doesn't mean it isn't democracy. To me, it's about cooperation as opposed to competition, and the liberal democracies sure suck at cooperating internally. Also, give me the kind that doesn't devolve into fascism and destroy the planet.

Personally, I have always felt that living in a liberal democracy was oversold to me growing up. If I spend most of my life at work yet I can't democratize the workplace, what fucking use is it to me?

Woke just means being aware of white supremacy. The blues musician lead belly spoke the first recorded instance of the word in reference to the scottsboro boys.

The ignorant use of this term drives me up a wall.

Do you not have people in your life who understand that the police lock people up for bullshit all the time? Why would they assume you deserved it? You need less ignorant people in your life (don't we all)

Not voting does not give your vote to anyone. It gives your vote to the "did not vote" column, the current undefeated champion of us elections. Do you libs even hear yourselves?

I hope you grow to a point where you can look back on this comment and appreciate what a word salad it is.

Wow. It takes a lot of arrogance to spout off unsubstantiated bullshit, ignore all direct questions and requests for clarification, and then tell the coherent interlocutors they are simply ignorant which is clearly projection.

I saw some mastodon posters calling this a distraction from the Epstein files as if anti-communism, installing far-right dictators, and privatizing everything weren't already the highest priorities for burgerland.

Liberals stop trusting establishment politicians challenge: impossible.

Thank you for providing a great example of the propaganda tactic often called "accusations in a mirror." This is more often referenced with the term projection.