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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • tisktisk ( tisktisk@piefed.social ) 
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    Is this real or some kind of joke? I’m just now learning about all of this and am almost traumatized honestly.

    • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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      “Radio Free X” news outlets are generally all US State Department propaganda designed to discredit and de-legitimize their geopolitical adversaries, famously the USSR and PRC, but also Cuba, etc. It’s all very real.

      • davel [he/him] ( davel@lemmy.ml ) 
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        All but Radio Free America.

        • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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          Excellent bit.

    • davel [he/him] ( davel@lemmy.ml ) 
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      No joke. Same goes for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, among others. They’re US state propaganda outlets.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Global_Media

      I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.

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      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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        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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          The US has hundreds more millitary bases around the world than any other country. It dominates the world financially via Imperialism, it intentionally underdevelops countries in the global south in order to have them reliant on US food exports so the US gets cheap imports.

          Some countries do call out the US Empire for what it is. Palestine, the former USSR, the PRC, Cuba, DPRK, South Africa, Iran, the Russian Federation, all countries the US Empire thoroughly demonizes and propagandizes against as much as it can.

          The good news is that the Empire is crumbling, so hopefully we can overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.

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          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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