• Nix@merv.news
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    1 year ago

    (Let me preface this comment with the fact I oppose what the Chinese and Russian government are doing)

    Is this a joke? The US tell people in Hawaii and Puerto Rico they belong to them and still do terrible shot to Indigenous people and try their best to erase their languages and cultures. They also invaded and killed how many innocent people in the middle east?

    They continue to support Saudi Arabia with weapons and billions of dollars, they support the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians, they continue trying to starve Cubans with their sanctions and blockade…

    The Chinese government is doing fucked up shit but its absurd to think the US government hasn’t been committing atrocities for decades. Also, the Uyghur people being forced to work are making also making products like Nike. Nestle privatizes water and spreads propaganda so women stop breastfeeding to sell their powdered milk and Chiquita Banana committed massacres in Columbia in the 2000s…

    Now the US is contemplating invading Mexico to “stop” the drugs from the cartels the US funds and arms by buying their products and selling guns they know will go to shady people. Also the US was flooding crack into Black communities to fund illegal wars and bombed a house in a Black community and assassinated almost all the civil rights leaders…

    And “as a European” maybe you should read about all the fucked up stuff France has done and continues to do and why so many countries in Africa are ousting leaders and hate France. Or read about why Haiti is in the position they’re in. Or read about all the racist and fascist shit going on in Italy, or what Spain is doing to Catalonia and trying to do to the Catalonian language. Or read about the racist remarks the foreign policy chief of the EU said about how europe is a “garden” and the rest of the world is a “jungle” that could invade… The rest of the world is mostly in the positions they are in because of what Europeans have done in history.

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      It is really easy as an American to forget what our country is doing. Our news is geniously tuned to distract us and mislead us. So thanks for the reminder. Last time I tried to explain the US genocide situation I ended up just posting a pepe instead of jogging my memory for all the details you were able to share.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s hard to be a database of this shit.

        At some point, we should just have a public repository of all the information necessary and update it accordingly.

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      And what’s crazy is this isn’t even close to a full list, huge things like the pollution in the Niger Delta caused by European and American oil companies, destruction of natural habitats and poisoning of water tables, funding terrorist groups and despots to get access to oil and mineral reserves…

      It’s not even as if we’re working towards a noble goal, it’s all just a shit fight so rich people can get richer.

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      racist and fascist shit going on in Italy

      This, frankly, is a consequence of the illegal immigration/migration (whatever you want to call it) from the last decade into europe and the impact its had on society

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        Major yikes… blaming fascism and racism on the victims instead of the white supremacists who fucked up the world by contributing so much to climate change, destabilizing countries, and propping up dictators causing the people to become refugees.

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          are you aware that a lot of the world wasn’t stable even without western countries intervening? have you read any history book from any part of the world outside of the EU and North America?

          the fact that there’s so much illegal migration to the west is partly the responsibility of our own countries and policies