UnderpantsWeevil

joined 2 years ago

there is actual evidence…

Satellite imagery and open-source geographic data

Buddy...

Amnesty International verified the human right abuses independently.

Thanks for that

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

If you want to get on that nerd shit, they don't bother to correctly translate the bible. The singular instance of condemnation of homosexuality is better translated as a condemnation of pederasty. And we've already demonstrated that Christian church leaders have no problem with this.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

genocide denial

Brother, get your ass to Afghanistan and say that to any of the survivors of the US occupation.

You don't care what genocide is. You just want some foreigner to eat your sins.

Also I’m not American

Did you clap for Yaroslav Hunka with the rest of your ilk?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

this is absolutely normal and should be protected

I mean, to take a line from Inglorious Bastards

I 'magine you're gonna take off that handsome-lookin' S.S. uniform of yours, ain'tcha?... That's what I thought. Now that I can't abide... I mean, if I had my way... you'd wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of your pecker-suckin' life.

I much prefer the Nazis who are wearing their beliefs on their sleeves.

Only problem is that they don't ever come out of the woodwork until they've got safety in numbers.

The problem Germany has in the modern day isn't a bunch of schlubs throwing up Nazi salutes. Its the much larger pool of industrial and media insiders who have goaded them into it, financed their little fascist friend-groups, and sponsored them to seize power to the benefit of the far-right plutocracy.

Liberals panick when they see the former, but they're constantly trying to win over the latter. You can't clean your house of insects if you keep trying to make friends with the Queen Bee.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

‘Lebenslüge’, the myth that German racism began and ended with the Holocaust

You can't re-nazify if you never de-nazified to begin with. Nazis were rebranded and re-incorporated into the new East and West German governments practically before the smoke was clear. While the Russians were quick to round up and execute more Nazis than their ratline-loving Capitalist peers, both governments' police services were thick with former Wauffen SS officers by the turn of the decade.

We had Hitler's Chief of Staff running NATO, ffs.

Despite his extensive knowledge and participation in war crimes, he later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

China is #2 in military spending after the USA.

China plus the next 13 countries on the list can't total US military spending. And I don't even know if Israel + Ukraine should count, given how much of their military budget is just US foreign aid.

As for harassing brown people: well there’s the whole Uyghur thing.

The original “evidence” of 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps stems from US propaganda outlets and far-right “researchers” like Adrian Zenz. These numbers could not be independently verified, and other media sources that repeat these claims merely cite each other or this original, US-backed research. Zenz himself is a known antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right evangelical, and Islamophobe who has written that the Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will be wiped out by God in a “fiery furnace”. Why would a German with such hateful views toward Jews and Muslims be such a champion of Uyghur rights? It was later found that Zenz had received $625,000 from Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to help him fabricate the story of Uyghur genocide.

Brother, you are sucking from the tailpipe of propaganda while your country is drowning in the blood of native peoples.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786968298636423210

Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (11 children)

BUT.

AT.

WHAT.

COST!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re also blind if you just say “America bad” at every opportunity.

It's shooting fish in a barrel. You don't need to aim to carefully when you've got a target rich environment.

No, many of the things he’s doing are absolutely not in the interest of the billionaire class

Its not in the best long term interests of the country. But then neither is having a billionaire class to begin with. Trump's looting various cash-rich institutions and easily extorted organizations and individuals for the benefit of his cronies. That's necessarily bad for the targets of exploitation and good for his in-group, however you might project their futures over the long term.

And yes, he’s serving some of them, particularly Peter Thiel. But he’s mostly serving Putin and himself.

Nobody in Russia, least of all Vladimir Putin, is well-served by the US continuing to arm and instigate conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. And yet that's exactly what our foreign services continue to do. You can trace this right back to 2018, when Trump shoveled out a bunch of anti-aircraft missile systems and anti-tank weapons to Ukrainian Nationalists.

Trump's firmly in the pocket of the Military Industrial Complex. And that occasionally breaks for or against Russia, depending on who is buying. But it is always and forever a policy that favors more international conflicts and more arms sales because US exports of weapons is a GOP moneymaker.

And even Hillary isn’t the devil incarnate you think she is.

Hillary and Trump were friends. They've been political allies and social circle buddies since the 1990s. She egged him on to run in 2016 because she thought he'd be her cat's paw.

If you hate Trump, you should despise Hillary.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I assumed the Ghost of Christmas Imperative would just be shouting "CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!" over and over again, while blowing an air horn that plays carols.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because his brand of “politics” is dumb, destabilizing shit that’s bad for America and Americans.

We've had dumb, destabilizing policies in this country since its founding. That's got nothing to do with the politics of the civil services. Plenty of civil servants are full-on MAGA adherents (and have been even before his first election in '16). Plenty more are die-hard Hillarycrat Libs who have dragged the country in another direction. Trump's game is to stack his MAGA cronies above the Hillarycrats withint compromising the function of the civil service entirely, rendering it useless.

Trump only serves himself, Putin, and indirectly, Xi.

Jesus fuck dude. Have you really been watching US politics for this long and still not seen Trump acting in the explicit interests of the American billionaire class? Why do you think the Chinese President is closer to his heart than the people he pulled into his own cabinet - Lutnick, McMahon, Vought, and Loeffler? Nevermind Peter Thiel, a man who has become the nation's premiere military contractor over the last year.

Nevermind fucking Israel.

How are you liberals this fucking blind? Trump's CIA is systematically picking apart what's left of Russian industry. His Pentagon is fixated on purging Chinese businesses from the Western Hemisphere. His Treasury has made cryptocurrency speculation a central tenant of fiscal policy. But y'all can't stop saying "Foreign Men Did This" every time you look at your own decayed socio-economic system.

Also, did you just link me Trump admin propaganda

Go Lib Out to the WaPo if that's your poison of choice.

Or reference Congress.gov for an official definition.

Or just bury your head in the sand for another four years.

 
 

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