People who support capitalism are liberals. Republicans and Democrats are both libs and it says a lot about American politics that people consider them different at all.

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Israel is more of a US military outpost than a colony. Letting it fail would mean giving up America's foothold on the middle east and that's never gonna happen willingly.

It is funny how the US is more faithful to Israel than its own citizens though. Could you imagine if the US implemented student loan forgiveness, free healthcare, and rent control... in Israel? I'm not sure if Americans would even be mad, they'd probably move there and join the colonization effort.

How is ATLA orientalist and in what way does it have a colonizer perspective? I'm not asking that question as an attack, I'm genuinely curious.

It's not representative of any country or culture but more of a hodgepodge like fantasy is with Europe. I dunno where the line is between inspiration and distortion though

Don't both sides the issue, the Nazis in Ukraine command its military and hold office. To the point where even pro-Ukraine news can't blur out all the swastikas, wolfsangels, black suns, and Bandera portraits.

And I agree, Ukraine should be sovereign. Which is why it must reject its current government that was installed by the US via coup. The people the Ukraine should be fighting are their compradors, not the Russians.

Even then, we half-assed things. We never outlawed slavery and we supported the Nazis because they were fervently anticommunist. Fuck, we even recruited them directly after the war

IDK about the pirates but it's the US so they probably fought them because they wanted to do the piracy themselves

When what we are is intrinsically determined by capitalism, it’s not enough to try to better ourselves; we have to cease to be ourselves.

Banger article! Thanks for sharing

Oh no now hexbear's gonna defederate from us too! 😭😭

This reads like lemmy world

On the whole, westerners aren't nearly as anti-monarchy as they say they are. Remember when Queen Elizabeth died? Tons of people that weren't even British were crying tears for her. I don't get it either

Mostly? I would hope entirely 😰

Is "China Television" a specific channel or did the author mean to write Chinese Television? I'm too poor to read the article

Edit: The article is talking about the Zero Tolerance docuseries made by CGTN. idk what's up with the headline, is it improper to use adjectives in titles?