• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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            30 days ago

            Sure, but it’s about to go from awful to historically atrocious.

            Everything that’s broken now is going to continue to be as broken or get worse, and a ton of other things are going to be broken beyond repair.

            Don’t be fooled by the business as usual behavior of the Dem leadership now that they’re not trying to get elected; this is fucking catastrophic for the entirety of humanity.

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      Oil is only one factor, what matters is the country’s stance towards US Imperialist interests and how they work for or against those interests.

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        30 days ago

        Well oil was discovered in Crimea and northeast Ukraine in like 2012, so we really dropped the ball there.

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    I’ve always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

    Every so often you’ll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

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    30 days ago

    Especially absurd to use this propaganda angle when the West is backing Islamic fundamentalists to overthrow a secular state

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      “You do not understand. Moslem bad and the government look like Moslem therefore we must kill all their women.” - Average liberal.

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      30 days ago

      The US is actually backing socialists and even communists in Syria. HTS is mostly on its own. The US supports Assad over HTS.