Looks like they're starting to geolock some users, so americans mostly see posts/comments made from the US

Can't people just not be racist

You can link a community for all instances by doing [email protected] btw

or by typing [text](/c/[email protected]) like this

What no political theory does to a mfer

Trump offers a fake anti-establishment for people who are rightfully mad at the state. Only a working class party can direct that towards actual improvement.

Problem is obviously that a working class party wouldn't be funded and backed by billionaire capitalists the way the duopoly is; that's the point of liberal "democracies" — keeping capitalist parties in power.

US is a democracy

Lmfao

Modern Russia is a shitty liberal "democracy" just as incompetent as the US's

The FBI sleeps when libraries burn

This dumbass is probably being paid by them in the first place lol

some of us are a little bit slow to learn

You still are, judging by this shitlib of a comment.

Common lemmy.world L

It's a strictly leftist instance lol (even more so than dbzer0), of course they'll ban liberals and other right-wingers (and your removed comments seem to be complaining about pronouns for some reason?)

Disagree about there not being good discussions on it; I regularly see the more interesting discussions on Lemmy on that instance, so long as you're acting in good faith.

Always the same map

A bit surprising that "israel" didn't vote against it, but that would be a bit too on the nose I guess.

The U.S. official said Israel notified the U.S. in advance. “We were not surprised,” the official said.

I thought they were at least gonna continue pretending they don't want a regional escalation?

Iran warns Israel, US of ‘severe response’ in case of retaliation

"Israel" is a US colony; it's entire existence hinges on the latter.

Its formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named "Colonization Commission", "Jewish Colonial Trust" and the like.

Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called "zionism", was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:

“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]

Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.

And capitalist governments work for the interests and profit of capitalists rather than workers as is the reason for the genocide here (keeping the middle east unstable and unable to unite against imperialism with a colony right in the middle of Africa and Asia), so yes that does matter.

The government does not represent you since you're not a capitalist, so trying to change something as massive as a genocide through it is pointless, specially when the only other option is just as bad, if not worse. The only thing that will change it is organizing and pressuring it from the outside.

Rather than "intervening" like you want other countries to do against a nuclear state, has the US considered not directly funding and facilitating the genocide?

Acknowledging that the US has been the leader of the imperial core — the countries that have been colonizing the rest of the world for 500 years now — since WW2 is the realistic, materialist view.

Only difference now is that it's changed form to mainly the economic subjugation (neocolonialism) of "former" colonies through unequal exchange under capitalism rather than direct military subjugation — though the US still has a major actual settler colony committing a genocide in Palestine right now.

Any country that tries to escape this system (by nationalizing its resources to prevent extraction by unequal exchange, usually by establishing a socialist state) is sanctioned (DPRK, Vietnam in the past, Zimbabwe etc), embargoed (Cuba), overthrown (Chile, Burkina Faso etc), or invaded (Vietnam, Libya, Korea, etc).

• How Capitalism Robs the Developing World
• Why Do Poor Countries Stay Poor?
• Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade by Arghiri Emmanuel
• Imperialism In The 21st Century by Ben Becker