• Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    FUCKING HELL look at the language in the liberal rhetoric:

    • African nations are objectively victims of Western imperialism ‘feel’ victims of Western imperialism.

    • Lavrov’s message resonates with countries that have been directly threatened by American power long been suspicious of American power. //If you speak softly and carry a big stick, the stick is a threat. especially if it's covered in blood. Suspicion isn't unreasonable.

    • Russia is strengthening ties with natural allies against imperialism is ‘cultivating’ and ‘influencing’ countries into an alliance ‘putting Russia at its head’. //Implicit here is that these countries are incapable of their own sovereignty, they instinctively seek out a suzerian.

    • In Asia countries that have long held anti-imperialist sentiment are now able to speak up without fearing repercussion ‘waves’ of Anti-imperialism and anti-westernism are continuing to ‘swell’. //Like it's just a phase that will pass.

    • Everyone knows it’s America and its allies who are the sources of global disruption and instability The idea that it’s America and its allies who are the sources of global disruption and instability holds sway. //This one really takes the fucking cake. This is an article that acknowledges we've been living in a unipolar world, yet somehow it's not the US and its constant state of war that has instigated everything?

    This is the language of psychological abuse. “I’m sorry you think I hurt you,” “I do it to protect you,” “You never complained about this in the bedroom (where I have an axe mounted to the headboard),” “Other partners would be much worse.”

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      Yeah absolutely everything in the west is written like this and white people have the audacity to say that it’s China or Russia or Korea or whoever else that engages in brainwashing. It’s glaringly obvious to anyone outside the imperialist bubble, but fish don’t know they’re living in water and all that.

      It’s very funny seeing the way libs write about anti-imperialism from an imperialist perspective though. The overexploited south could cure cancer and solve global warming and these chuds would find a way to make it sound like a bad thing.

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      Lib speak like that always makes me think of either: a suburban soccer mom with “Eat Pray Love” and “It’s Always Time for Chardonnay” on the wall, or some bearded socdem college professor with a blazer over a Borders Books and Music t-shirt.