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Propaganda ———> National Media

*Invasion --------> liberate

We already have that one. It’s true too. They’ll liberate you back into the stone ages. They’ll liberate you so hard, your great grandchildren will still feel the pain of it.

“Are we the baddies?” Well, for a lot of people all over the world you’re at least not the good ones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States

Move to Russia then tell us how equal it is 🙄

Tankies 🤦‍♂️

Really just outright playing ‘bothsides’ games with Putin’s Russia already. Great.

Haha my dude you are comparing gulags to prison in the USA?

LMAO 🤣 i don’t want to say Lemmy is disconnected from reality but this kind of posts and the ones blaming Latin Americans and minorities for the election lost just makes everyone here look unhinged

Regime -> administration

Ruled by oligarchs -----> ruled by oligarchs

On the surface it seems like these comparisons are valid, but there’s truly a world of difference in how America deals with its people.

The fact still remains that skilled immigrants can come to America and make a life for themselves. It doesn’t matter who they are. Or that non-white or non-Christians can get elected to the U.S. congress.

America started out with an idealism it’s failing to live up to, and it’s the fault of those who indulge realpolitiks over that idealism. This isn’t an America problem, there’s a rot that’s taken over the soul of humanity. We’re casting aside intellectualism and enlightenment for realpolitiks.

Make no mistake though, people cannot be trusted so you always have to protect yourself. But there’s no civilization without ideals for humanity.

Gulag’s name means force labor camp, but there is a lot more context to it than that. A gulag is less about labor and conditions and more about it being a hole in the ground at an undisclosed location where people go in and never come out. People that the soviets put in Gulags were sometimes criminals, but they were prosecuted by secret courts after being arrested by secret police during the World War Era and until about 1961.

Of course the USA absolutely has its fair share of dirty laundry, around the same timeframe they were prosecuting crimes for “Black Laws” and sending them to mines.

I think that in this regard both countries have made a lot of progress but still have a long ways to go. Also Russia is worse.

Except anybody who shits sideways on the toilet can call themselves an “Entrepreneur”, can’t say the same thing about being an Oligarch.

Dont forget, it all starts with:

Greed/avarice = rational self-interest

Greed is a character deficit, a personal failing, and a destructive force. We’ve made it our primary practiced cultural value. We deify the greedy instead of condemning them for their greed. We’ve made greed a virtue, having largely abandoned the term in favor of self-masturbatory, complimentary terms for it.

You don’t get to a place where empathy is a foreign concept, where your capital score is more important than the social contract, without demanding far more resources than most would need for a hundred lifetimes being tolerated by society.

The Gordon Geckos, Ebenezer Scrooges, and Mr. Potters were cautionary tales about bad people with bad values, villains. Yet Oliver Stone supposedly gets letters from fans who thank him for creating their fictional role model.

invasion -> intervention

The US has done some bad things foreign policy wise, but none have come close to what Russia is doing in Ukraine right now. Even in Vietnam or was like 1/10th the amount of deaths, and that’s after over a decade of war vs Russia in a few years. Not to defend Vietnam cause that was ridiculously stupid and cruel. But Russia is in fact taking it to a new level in both regards.

Communists, go live in Russia if you think America is so bad. I will take my good quality of life in capitalist America over any communist shithole all the live long day.

Communism is only good for impractical fantasy ideas and authoritarian shitholes. Prove me wrong if you can.