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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Of course.

Fuck this country.

Never voting for a democrat or republican again. They're all scum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

unless youre actually voting for a third party, not voting for the shinier turd is still a worthless position that does not improve anything

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can we get an embargo on the US?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

By imposing sanctions on more and more Global South countries, the US is effectively embargoing itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

BRICS: hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Every year they have this vote. Every year is the same thing.

Death to America, death to the west, death to America's allies.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If the US and Israel are completely aligned in foreign policy, what keeps Israel from just becoming treated as another state of the US?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Israel has more power over the US than states.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its ethnonationalist policies would violate Federal law pretty severely, and then the US is explicitly on the hook for Israel's war crimes, terrorism, assassinations, etc.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The US isn't on the hook for it's own war crimes, terrorism, or assassinations, so that wouldn't matter

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

The 51st state doing the work I see.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Also, Ukraine was the only country that abstained.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (8 children)

In all seriousness, who does the embargo really benefit. Maybe it made sense during the Cold War when missiles were getting moved around, but now? Someone somewhere must be profiting from it, but it’s not the American people.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia » Political positions of Noam Chomsky » Views on institutions » Criticism of United States government

His conclusion is that a consistent part of the United States' foreign policy is based on stemming the "threat of a good example." This 'threat' refers to the possibility that a country could successfully develop outside the US-managed global system, thus presenting a model for other countries, including countries in which the United States has strong economic interests.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nobody. It exists solely because of American's indoctrinated hate towards Communism.

I guess long term you could make the argument it threatens the ruling class, because if (more) communist ideals were proven successful then more nations would implement them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It benefits the US empire. Duh?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It feels very cool to buy hand soap or whatever at the grocery store and see the box is stamped 'made in Iran / DPRK / Vietnam' though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Those countries can't swing Florida election results

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Podcast recommendation for people like me who like to listen because they don't find time to read as much as they'd like and don't have first hand experience/memory of the Cuban revolution and the following intertwined history with the US, because, well, they weren't born yet:

https://blowback.show/Season-2

After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America’s Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. Co-hosted by Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, season two is a 10-part account of how the United States tried and failed to thwart the creation of a socialist government less than a hundred miles to its south.

The style of the podcast, with two moderators, took some getting used to for me. But I learned to love it. It is very comprehensive and in-depth. You can find it pretty much everywhere; I listened to it on spotify.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
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