dessalines

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US's bourgeois "democracy", genocided an entire continent, and committed countless atrocities across the globe.

The "authoritarian" label never gets levelled at the US, great britain, france, or other imperialist powers who carved up the global south and bled it for hundreds of years. It only gets used against their enemies, who dared rise up and fought back against colonialism.

Even fascism is far less effective than bourgeois parliamentarism at killing millions of innocent people. The nazi's failed to accomplish in eastern europe, what the US successfully carried out and its liberal democracy is still carrying out in north america.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

these sort of deals enables Nazis to conquer much of Europe.

Stalin offered a million men to France and the UK to stop the nazis. They refused.

Meanwhile, your country was literally in the Axis in WW2, and helped the nazis carry out their atrocities.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Your country fought on the side of the Nazis in WW2, and helped them carry out the scorched earth policy you absolutely won't forgive the USSR for turning back.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In case people aren't aware, the Victims of Communism foundation is a US government organization that was set up by an act of congress in 1993.

Congress also passed a bill funding them to design highschool curriculum, called the "crucial communism teaching act".

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There's a lot of lesser known ones that aren't even listed there. Australia, Italy, Russia, and Greece for example.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Kinda the plot of Robinson's Mars trilogy.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For sure. Maybe once every few months the US will contract spaceX to throw a tesla at the PRC's moon base just to be annoying.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Yep kinda, the white-washing history myth that most US gradeschoolers get taught is that "george washington had wooden teeth". The reality is that a lot of his teeth were from his slaves.

Margaret Kimberly's - Prejudential goes through every US president individually, and has a good chapter on him.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Explicitly calling out the reader. Power move.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd really like a smaller phone too, and I think that some of the better companies like Oneplus are starting to offer smaller variants (Oneplus 13T and 13S just got released a few months ago, and they're 6.3" whereas most now are 6.8").

Besides that tho I've found OnePlus and Xiaomi phones to be pretty unbeatable the past few years, for battery life and fast charging.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

That phone is pretty much the most innovative smartphone of all time. But on youtube there's a video stress-testing how it would hold up to real life conditions... and it gets completely destroyed by a handful of sand. Same applies to pretty much all foldables: if you get any sand or dirt in the folds, you can easily destroy the screens.

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