WhatWouldKarlDo

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[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

That's what they eventually did. They do that with other countries as well.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I'm not really into playing 4x games multiplayer. But I did play Stellaris multiplayer. It can get pretty frantic if you don't pause every now and then, but a far cry from boring.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Most people here are not capitalists. They're workers like us and would benefit from socialism. But they've been subjected to nationalist and capitalist propaganda their entire lives, and that makes socialism become the boogeyman. It makes it hard for them to see how much they would benefit.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 80 points 2 years ago (8 children)

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, you should only get your news from right wing media owned by oligarchs. That's how you know it's true.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Lincoln has just been whitewashed all to hell. He didn't free the slaves out of any moral reason. It was just a good piece of propaganda, and he was really just railroaded into it.

I would also like to point you to Lincoln's military service and the largest mass execution in US history. Their crime? Not starving to death. He's just as much of a genocidal scumbag as the rest of them.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Not from hexbear, but no, of course they don't. I would wager that you would have a very hard time finding anyone on hexbear or lemmygrad that has anything but contempt for all US presidents. A bunch of monsters, the lot of them.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Caitlin Johnstone had a pretty good article about how this happens. But yes, all media is propaganda. It's impossible for it not to be. The New York Times doesn't even attempt to make the appearance of not being the mouthpiece of the US government though.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

This just in, it turns out that the Holocaust was bad for minorities.. This article just screams of genocide denial.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The average American's overton window is so frickin narrow that they can't tell left from right. Everything that's not liberal conservative just looks like an extremist to them.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sentence was so dumb that I just assumed it was Trump until I saw your post and checked the author. Are these people deliberately trying to sound like Trump now?

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 2 years ago

And they, who had already divested themselves of their white capes, astonished us with their beards, their mustaches. The Red Star stood out on their fur hats. And there were female soldiers, similar to the male soldiers, armed as they were, and driving mules hitched to sleds. They surrounded us, as surprised as we were. And already we were "tovarish" (comrades).

… For two days I took advantage of the sunshine to go and wash in the snow. I was rather weak, but how can I describe my joy that once again I was free, that once again I could walk without holding myself at attention among the Blocks. That it was good to sit myself down on one of the benches on the perimeter. This was the first time that something like this had happened to me, and in the observation towers it was Soviets who were standing guard."

https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/diary-auschwitz.html

 

Yesterday in the Tienanmen Square post, someone mentioned to me that US atrocities are taught and remembered by the US population. In light of that, I thought it would be fun to do a series of This Day in History posts with a brief blurb on whatever vile thing that the US did on that day in the style of western reporting on China. I would like to continue these until I get bored/busy/hungover (as Karl would do), or the US somehow fails to do something awful on any particular day.

Today is the anniversary of the Los Angeles Rebellion (also known as the Watt's Riot) which happened from August 11 - 16, 1965. A brutal traffic stop of an unarmed young black man sparked thousands in the black community to rise against the oppressive racist regime. 14000 soldiers were called in to squash the fledgling rebellion, and after 6 days of urban guerrilla warfare, the fledgling rebellion was crushed. Government propaganda framed the issue as a riot, and little was changed. However, the black population continues to fight for equality against the authoritarian government to this day.

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