MemesAreTheory [he/him, any] @ MemesAreTheory @hexbear.net

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Fuck. You're right.

A Thin Blue line would be more accurate

Just bog standard racism/yellow peril

This thread is fucking littered with comrades begging you to read, but you just sit there and say "doesn't look like anything to me" like it's Westworld or some shit and then keep on bashing us. It's amazing, truly.

We don't outright dismiss them you dip. We engage with your sources and show why they're unreliable or non-factual. You're the one handwaving sources away and refusing to engage any further. Talk about a bubble around you.

My guy read your own fucking source. Your UN paper doesn't even conclude that China is engaging in Genocide.

I'll add to this - the Holocaust museum features prominently the testimony and picture of Rushan Abbas. She has a long history of activism in China (the details of which are important but we have more immediate concerns), and that lead to a career with... Radio Free Asia... Oh look, there we have another CIA/State Department mouthpiece.

I will further critique the source and echo another commenter saying that they don't have a single link. That page tells a story, but it does not provide any direct sources other than testimony from activists with demonstrable links to RFA.

Quick question: did you know about any of this before today? Did you know about the Maidan Coup? Did you know about the nearly 15,000 casualties, including over 3000 civilian casualties, in Luhansk/Donbas between 2014 and 2022? Were you aware of the extensive reporting by western sources on far right elements in Ukraine committing crimes against humanity?

If any of that was news to you, do you think it's ever appropriate to pause and reassess your position? Or are you just going to double, triple, and quadruple down on your fairy-tale understanding of the world with smug quips that don't address anything of substance?

Lmao imagining this nerd immediately being ventilated because "the soldiers feared for their life."

Okay, then vet the sources big guy.

Great, so you admit that all you have are the sources previously provided and the inherent flaws they contain

Stupid tankies asking for sources. That's basically thought police - aren't you bozos supposed to hate the police? Hahahaha gottem.

What no theory does to a mf.

No, this isn't trickle down economics. It's called superprofit/super exploitation, a marxist concept. The West™ in general, but a few powers specifically (subject of our discussion here, the USA in particular) have enforced extremely brutal oppression in the global South. This has kept the global South from developing competitive or even self-sufficient industry and reliant on imports. This gives American firms a massively unfair advantage, one which is used to placate the American working class so they don't develop solidarity with the global South. Throw in some bog standard racism and you've got a stable empire of misery. It's classic divide and conquer tactics, same used to pit managers/white collar workers and more blue collar or service workers against each other. Let some people feel superior to others, and they'll be so busy looking down they won't mind the boot on their back standing above them.

There's a rich body of theory here (which you are plainly ignorant of) but I would recommend reading about the phenomenon of unequal exchange by Jason Hickel

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

It's a good starting place for understanding how wealth is extracted from the south for the north.

Unfortunately for all of us, Capitalism has a long-term rate of profit problem. Even with super exploitation profit falls in the long run. To maintain their power and the rate of profit the capitalists begin ripping out and further oppressing the once (relatively) privileged working class of the north too. That's why social safety nets are being torn to shreds and constantly under attack, and gains in quality of life/life expectancy have either stalled or regressed in so called "rich" countries.

We say "workers of the world unite" for a reason. It's a global struggle.

Oh, nice whattaboutism. Didn't say shit about Russia dumbass. What the fuck does that have to do with a conversation about the US engaging in direct imperialism during the 20th century? You sick fucks are obsessed with Russia, it's kind of cute. Like you've got a crush or something.

My guy I'm just talking about well recorded history here. Go Google operation Condor, or if you're really feeling adventurous, literally any history book about Latin America. US violence and meddling is a core part of what gave the country a deeply unfair advantage. There was only dramatic reduction in poverty and a "growing middle class" because we were actively preventing that from developing abroad. Pretending foreign policy and domestic issues are separate realms is completely juvenile. Look at OPEC for the easiest example in the world.

It also coincided with the US propagating violent dictatorships and committing unparalleled war crimes abroad. The Korean War, Vietnam War, Indonesian Mass Killings, rise of the House of Saud, Shah in Iran, and incredible meddling and history of coups/death squads in Latin America.

That middle class wasn't made by just engaging in good business, unless you consider the violence of imperialism good business... In which case absolutely go fuck yourself... But only if you stand by all that foreign aggression and murder and downstream oppression.

Well, at least you're learning something today, despite your best efforts not to.

Dunking is pointing out the stupidity and hollowness of liberal rhetoric with flare. It's cathartic to call the smug morons who think they're the good guys idiots with easily demonstrated facts. For example, all the self-respecting morons who have swallowed historic revisionism regarding the use of atomic weapons vaporizing 200,000+ civilians, one of the greatest war crimes of the 20th century, and still somehow think America are the good guys when it comes to foreign policy.

Your wild inferences about fear and ganging up are pretty weak logic in action lmao. You don't know what a word means so you just guess wildly and immediately start drawing inferences from your (incorrect) guess work? You must be real cool at parties. So sorry that there's more communists than you thought and we're an active instance

Hey man, we're all on this thread doing our best, but you are exhibit A for whom pig poop balls is intended for: aggressively uninquisitive, proud of it, and deserving of less than half the grace you'll ever receive.

Do me a solid and imagine a hog with it's own shit on its testicle, resting there like there's no where else in universe it belongs more.

Then read theory and grow the fuck up, Jesus christ. Insufferable.

Well good news for you and your infinitely inquisitive mind, it's less obtuse than "read the Bible." Parenti is a scholar with a specific specialty and body of work much more relevant to your directly quoted word choice. If you had said some other kind of drivel he might have recommended Antonio Gramsci or Michael Hudson or Naomi Klein or Jason Hickel or so on and so forth. Michael Parenti's work and specialty area just so happen to debunk your moronic claim of "redfash." I specifically recommend the book "black shirts and reds," If you need to be walked right up to it.

Also, LOL. LMAO even. Over here complaining about thought terminating cliches while uttering that fucking nonsense.