• Paddy66@lemmy.ml
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    Well, if it gets the constitution changed so that the president can’t act like a dictator…

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    The truth is that the U.S. civil war never really ended, it just went into a “cold” phase. If you don’t believe it, just look at all the Confederate flags still flying all over the South. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” was all about keeping the war going, under the radar. It has only gotten more obvious since then.

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    With both parties working against the most of the american people and most of the media being in the pocket of some rich guy I don’t know how this is going to change other than rewriting the constitution to change how the american political system works. And being defeated in a war seems to be one of the only moments in time where this can happen. And as a non american I’d prefer if they duked it out amongst themselves. Pulling others into it seems unfair and the US might actually win. I’d much prefer if an alternative to war though since its one of the worst things that can happen to a person. I don’t know how it would look though. Please enlighten me me if you do.

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    This is something that has been well known and well documented for a very long time now. We’ve had reports and evidence from dozens of countries, not just the US. We’ve even had both Russia and China publicly admit that they’re doing this.

    The only people who deny this are either far left tankies who just happen to to simp for Russia and China or far right neo nazis who also just happen to simp for Russia and China. I sure wonder where Russia and China are focusing their propaganda campaigns…

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    Its crazy that we have literal proof that these countries have tens of thousands 9-5 employees who’s entire job is to fuck the internet with lies and its just so normalized an accepted.

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        People still get mad at me when I point this out to them, like I’ve just told them the Earth is flat.

        No, Biden didn’t lose just cause he was old. No, Labour UK isn’t tanking in the polls just cause they’re disappointing (the Conservatives were awful for 13 years and still won plenty elections). There’s more. There’s foreign meddling. And these people just refuse to believe it, as if their countries are impenetrable bubbles.

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          I used to work in organic growth and it’s crazy what you could do in astroturf or brand growth as just a normal person. To think that governments that cannot be challenged would restrain themselves from using this weapon is sadly too optimistic.

          The reason why EU and US arent so blatant because they can’t just start a troll farm with publics approval.

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            Why would the U.S. need public approval for a troll farm? That shit is highly classified. If you think the U.S. doesn’t do the same thing we accuse Russia and China of doing, I gotta bridge to sell you.

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            The reason why EU and US arent so blatant because they can’t just start a troll farm with publics approval.

            Doesn’t reddit use heavily correspond to US military bases?

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              Why would it correspond to military bases? They can pay their people to shit post and host bots from home.

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                Cus with the military you already have a readymade pool of labor to work from, with basicaly zero democratic civilian oversight. Plus, a lot of them live on base.

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      True, but question: do you believe the US is doing the same or not? Whether it’s the actual government or companies

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        They’re indisputably doing the same, except that the flow of instructions and money follows the US model instead.

        You won’t find a government-signed paycheck anywhere (well… maybe), but the people who Congressman and Senators and their PACs have to beg for money, are the same people funding dark astroturfing movements.

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        It’s an irrelevant question. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It just makes things more toxic. It’s wrong when the US does it, like anyone else. None of these governments with corrupt centralized power should exist. And this sort of propaganda doesn’t help people.

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        It doesn’t matter if its the US, Russia or China.

        Leading governments launching campaigns to destabilize countries of millions of people while promoting their preferred fascist takeover has ultimately the same effect.

        The working class suffers and loses while the elite endlessly benefit.

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      If you forgive the cognitive effort involved, do you mind sharing the proof or evidence

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      who’s entire job

      I agree. Who IS Job? Entirely. Just a fictional man or the basis of a remade Sumerian fable repackaged by the Greeks for the Essenes and their conquest?

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    The rubes keep falling for it and they get all emotional and violent about it rather than getting informed.

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      American bots:
      Keep doing nothing. Resisting is what the Russians and Chinese want.

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        I’m not Russian. I’m not Chinese. And I don’t think I’m a bot. All I want is for that orange kiddie fucker to be imprisoned.

        If the lazy fucking americans do that then all is forgiven on my part. Until they come out and officially acknowledge that he’s a disgusting blob of human scum then I’ll never forgive or forget.

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      There are as many different American factions of influence farming as there are foreign, and likely equally in opposition of each other.

      Some day the internet is just going to be this entirely dead realm of soulless bots screaming nonsense corporate and political ideology back and forth at each other which nobody will ever see, while humans are too busy trying to grow potatoes in their yards to stay alive.

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    That meme is outdated. The people behind those bots have moved into USA a long time ago already. All they do is glaze over Trump nowadays. Civil war or not, you do you, but don’t blame us for your choice of pedophile for president.

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    Honestly was just thinking about that earlier, how massively disappointing it must be for accelerationists and our enemies to throw so much time and energy at getting the left to start shit and we just don’t because very few of us are that dumb.

    That said, it always pays off around election time when the left splinters and some radical self destructive buffoon gets empowered instead.

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      I find it hard to believe they really want it that much. Keeping Trump where he is will slowly do all the damage they need. On a global scale support for the U.S. is degrading, and things like Chinas currency being used for global trade is accelerating. At the rate things are going it is likely best for China to just let things take their current course. The wealth divide growing in the U.S. is going to do a lot of damage in the next 15 years. The conservative choices are just accelerating our downfall or complete need to move to a Universal base income and spread of wealth, if not a complete flop to a socialistic society. (Which will have a lot of backlash and possibly the civil war).

      If another country really thought just one leftist would start a civil war and destroy the U.S., they would just blackmail or pay someone off to do it.

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        China, at least lately, haven’t been ones to just sit by and wait patiently. They’ve been actively and aggressively promoting the decline, even backing Trump during the election especially with their TikTok psyop.

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          Oh yea that shit is absolutely insane. They are literally sending propaganda to the overseas Chinese Diaspora that promotes trump and demonizes Democrats on Wechat. My parents keep parrotting right-wing talking points. So uncanny.

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    I have been thinking US probably requires a hard reset. But then I realised, this will only benefit Russia and China. Well, more for China. Russia’s expensive war in Ukraine won’t make the country last long in the future. No one worth their salt could replace Putin. If US breaks up or goes on civil war, China will be the ultimate winner.

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      It would (probably? I wanna say certainly) benefit the rest of the world too, Western Europe included (to the dissatisfaction of our current American bought, obscenely corrupt and greedy leaders, ofc).

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        It wouldn’t benefit the rest of the world. If your country has a business that makes anything, the US buys it. Europe and the US did half a trillion in business in 2024. A destabilized US hurts just about everyone. Makes you think it’s worth a hard look at who it doesn’t hurt, and I don’t just mean nations, but I diciduals and corporations.

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        Europe is still too dependent on the US military to decouple and be more independent own, unfortunately. The EU agreed to a trade deal/not-trade deal (according Von der Leyen) with Trump in European investment in the US military. I know Europeans were angry at that, but in the near term the EU doesn’t have the capability to arm itself sufficiently, while simultaneously arming Ukraine. IMO that deal was buying time for the EU to remilitarise independently (I’m not a fan of remilitarisation as a Euro but what can we do).

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          I often read “Europe needs the US military to defend itself” online, but is it actually true? Or just the US themselves saying that?

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            I often read “Europe needs the US military to defend itself” online, but is it actually true?

            For now at least. Europe doesn’t have the same size of military industrial complex that US has at the moment. Europe needs more time to gear up.

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              Europe doesn’t have the same size of military industrial complex that US has at the moment.

              I think it’s for the best. The US military industrial complex is not something that I would like to see replicated in Europe. Of course if the American standard is “police departments should have armored vehicles” then we are not on the same “level”, but do we really need that in order to have an effective military?

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                Your choices are to not decouple from the US or have a comparable MIC as a collective. You don’t have a comparable MIC because the US does it for you. But if you’re against the Trump administration, you have to support getting one.

                I won’t go as far to say Europe “can’t survive” without the US, but Europeans seem to think the transition away won’t significantly change things and that’s not realistic.

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                  Europe needs to have a comparable MIC

                  Again, says who? I do not believe we need to have a comparable spending, when that spending is >20% of the GDP during times of “peace”.

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    You mark my words: Russia is one thing, but the very second the US is suitably distracted with internal affairs and can be counted on to be unable to respond, Taiwan gets invaded over night. And that shit will spiral out of control very quickly, because China won’t stop there, and nobody else wants to have to learn Mandarin in the mandatory reeducation camp (or at all). Oh, I do beg your pardon, I meant to say “Harmonization Retreat”. In Mandarin, obviously. Wouldn’t want to compromise my social credit score.

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      Why? They want Taiwan for its leverage in the silicon industry and for reinforced access to the Pacific Ocean. They really don’t have any other military targets on their radar, unlike the USA which spent the last 70 years basically pissing all over the world even after the USSR fell. If you want proof, look at Pakistan. They threw billions of dollars at it, yet its a 100% shill platform for the US. They don’t really care about controlling it so long as they are getting paid and Pakistan continues to buffer India.

      US is suitably distracted with internal affairs and can be counted on to be unable to respond

      You seriously overestimate the US being “distracted” by internal affairs. I even doubt they’d recall forces around Taiwan during a hypothetical civil war. If anything, they’d see the insane value of ending a civil war by baiting China to attack.

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        Why? Because CCP and dictator Xi literally said they would countless times. Taiwan is an emberassment for CCP and the authoritarians can’t have that. The only reason China didn’t invade Taiwan as of yet is because they couldn’t and as soon as they can they will, that’s literally the official stance.

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        It’s interesting how the term"sinophobia" is exclusively used by CCP bots or simps trying to deflect from any criticism of the Chinese government

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        “CCP Bad” = Sinophobia?

        LMFAO, you don’t even know what real Sinophobia looks like. People like you are delegitimizing all the actual racist encounters I’ve faced as an ethic Chinese in the US.

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        I don’t deny it, even though I’m not sure what ‘empire’ you’re referring to. The US presumably? Yeah, I live a little closer to China than that, and am generally not inclined to agree with the US on anything much these days.