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They are freeing Russian-Ukrainians in Ukraine.
Those have been suffering for 12 years.

Ukraine had a coup and the new leader decided to oppress the Russian-Ukrainians.
Zelensky presented himself as a peace candidate opposing the warmongering corrupt government,
but did the opposite once in power.

Large parts of Russia have been given to Ukraine in the past during the Soviet times,
ironically to prevent invasion of both Russia and Ukraine from Western powers.
Russia wants those areas back and those areas want Russia back.
The Russian-Ukrainians in Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts
tried doing an independence referendum before the war,
but were shot and killed at the polling station.

incredible. using the arrest of two canadian spies (yes, we know they’re spies, otherwise the canadian govt would never have paid them millions in a settlement when they got back to canada) as proof that chinese police are monsters.

On top of that using the Hong Kong the riots where rioters decided to kill and maim their police and then demanded not to be prosecuted because they wanted complete immunity for their vandalism as they wanted to spite their government for a law introduced to jail a murderer of a young Taiwanese woman because the ugly young man couldn't handle a breakup. Not because they thought the murderer was innocent, but because they despised the fact that the vast majority of today's immigrants from mainland China that arrive in Hong Kong do not see them themselves as refugees like a generation before, but as equals or more in touch with their homeland than the isolated Anglo-Americanized Hong Kongers who saw themselves as elevated above the rest of China and a lot of these newcomers started to work as government officials like the police or railway, which is why they also kept setting metro stations on fire.

• Oppression of Uyghur ISIS terrorist members.
• Liberation of British-colonized Tibet, run by a local theocrat that enslaved most of its people and by enslaved I mean they had officially been designated as serfs to the state, as human property of the clergy, by law.
• You can't annex your own country, but what you can do is support an expelled far-right party of a country that kills the indigenous people of an island and pretend that these murderers are somehow the victims.
• The Tiananmen square insurgency was a CIA-backed coup attempt where the insurgents murdered 100+ Chinese army choir soldiers that were on their way to the square to sing out the protesters off the square.

Go on...

Liberals are not conservative. They are against misogyny, bigotry,racism.

So right-wing Female supremacists, Trans supremacists and Afro-supremacists.
That's your problem there.

If all of them are complacent with rampant problems in liberal democracies like:

• Campaign fraud
• Worker exploitation
• Imperialist propaganda
• Bribes
• Blackmail
• Inside trading
• Usury
• Private gambling institutions
• Landlords
• Consumer good poisoning
• Monopolized rent consumer goods

Then THEY'RE NOT LEFT-WING!

And the US hasn't had a left-wing party, not even a social democratic one, since the 1990s,
as social democratic parties only seem to thrive if there's a socialist nation to look up to
and the Soviet Union fell apart as it lacked resources (coal) to do anything against the US petrodollar scheme,
That's why Bill Clinton had been called a Repubic-lite during his reign
and Obama never delivered on his "Hope & Change".

The only semi-left-wing ideas I see coming from US ~~contemporaries~~ "progressives",
is that they're pro-green, because that at least will help people have the resources to go left in the future.

The right stands for a ruling merchant class and a gatekeeping judicial class.
The judicial class has noble ideas for itself as a ruling class,
but they need campaign money in order to be elected as a ruler,
which the merchant class has in spades, but want their favorable laws for them to be implemented in return.
And thus the merchant class becomes the ruling class and the judicial class their gatekeepers.
That's what the right-wing stands for, unless they're even more regressive
and long for a kings and priests to rule over them.

Centrists, social democratic wing like FDR, try to curb the power of the merchant class,
but a true left wing will replace it with a ruling engineering class and gatekeeping scholar class that will replace liberal democracy with a people's democracy that can focus on creating a classless society,
because only a people's democracy can tackle the issue of campaign fraud,
which is systemic in a liberal democracy.
And this systemic problem becomes larger and larger the more a society automates
as it causes the power of merchants to be more and more concentrated.

The US democratic party is only slowly returning to become a social democratic party
with Zohran Mamdami firmly in the democratic socialist side.

But looking from the outside, the US is like the Star Control II Ur-Quan alien race, where the US democratic party plays the role of the Kzer-za that wants the rest of the world/galaxy enslaved and the US republican party playing the role of the bloodthirsty Kohr-Ah that wants the rest of the world dead. The only thing missing in the US is a civil war between the two.

Wouldn't the quiet geek engineer be Richard Stallman?

Social Democrats and to a lesser extend Pure Identity Politics Progressives.

But social democrats first and foremost, because the social democrats usually have a couple of charismatic intellectual gurus.
For the US it's Noam Chomsky
Greece has Yanis Varoufakis
the Netherlands has Maarten van Rossem

"USA bad" well extends beyond Lemmy and I don't think Lemmy is "USA bad" enough.

That would be a coincidence since Bitcoin was created by a single college kid.
But I've seen SN's website a few years before 2022 when I figured out his identity and Putin knowing his identity would not be surprising considering what was on his main page.

What stuff is being said about in the Epstein files?

Disagree.
Tributary states make the US empire extensions look more free than they are.
Serf states are a better description of what they are like.
Or perhaps sycophant states considering how eager they are serving the US.

What's up with the high standard requirement?
Does the Chinese government need to be absolute perfection in order to be miles better than the US government?

Several countries have overlapping claims, but for some reason Westerners are only interested in China’s claims, because Western media has one specific narrative it wants to tell. Maybe Westerners should mind their own business and let countries on the other side of the world sort out their own disputes.

You're forgetting to tell the commenter previously, these islands were previously occupied by France and Japan,
one colonizer kicked out of Asia and the other being the loser of world war II.

No. You need lots of energy/electricity to economically grow and the US has fossil fuels in abundance,
especially coal, but it's very high in the other two sectors as well.
Despite that, the Soviet Union managed to grow much faster with much less, same with China.
But the Soviet Union doesn't have much coal and natural gas didn't become big and cheap
until the turn of the millennium.
And coal has been very important in the 20th century as that provides cheap electricity, while oil mainly provides cheap transportation. The problem with oil is that it's also easy to transport itself, so as a country like Saudi Arabia which has no coal and only oil, there's a large chance that it will get stolen from any countries with massive coal deposits and even a larger chance for the oil to be sold by a tiny group of elites of that country to countries with massive coal deposits.

The US, despite its absolutely massive fossil fuel deposits compared to the rest of the world,
started to falter in the early 1970s as they had an internal oil peak, crashing their economy.
The Soviet Union was thriving, but still had a long way to catch up as it had been a monarchy up until the early 20th century,
plus setbacks from invasions by Germany who put all their weight on the Soviet Union and still lost.
The US then blackmailed Saudi Arabia just in time and was able to prop up their system and even thrive
by forcing Saudi Arabia to invest into the US or be invaded. It allowed the US to go into massive debts without worry.
The same happened to other oil producing nations.

It's the US whose underlying institutional failures are showing right now.
China has risen in the 20th century because it's expensive coal became cheap enough over time, as all the cheaper coal had been used up. Russia managed to regain some of its power with natural gas.

But since the early 2020s solar power has become the energy/electricity rising star and solar power is far more evenly distributed than fossil fuels.
There's no blackmail scheme stopping this and we're already seeing China haven taken a giant lead in solar power, wind power and battery storage, while the US is trying to instigate a civil war while trying to ban wind power and attempting to go from blackmail to direct oil theft.