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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is this real or some kind of joke? I'm just now learning about all of this and am almost traumatized honestly.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh dude the CIA has their fingers in soooooooooo much shit in the era between WWII and.. now? It's all published on their web site.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do other countries not condemn us ultimately for this stuff? Like Russia invaded another nation and the whole world 'sanctioned' them economically, why has no one sanctioned US for these mass injustices?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It's really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.

    I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you'd consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.

    So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It'd be impressive if it weren't so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yes, these guys are just giving you the quick overview. The enemy is colonialism, which has transformed into the neocolonial financial system. This includes all the core countries like USA, Israel, Western Europe, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Australia: together they control the world's banks, international legal bodies, high-tech manufacturing, as well as the academic and journalistic training and distribution systems.

    So the problem is actually much deeper than a few bad sources. The most valuable fields of study have been twisted by capitalism or basically just destroyed. Just take a look at how they've been dealing with climate change. Just because dealing with negative externalities on a business or society level is unprofitable or political suicide, we've been treating it like it can't be mitigated by constraints on manufacturing, and new solutions can't be invented. The Guardian has been posting the same stupid crap about spraying sulfur into the atmosphere for decades, and until recently they pretended investing in green energy + vehicles + industry could never be made profitable.

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