Lmao what the fuck are you libs on about. US billionaires bankroll Trump and it’s back to Russiagate with you?

I didn’t believe Americans were dumb enough to believe all the propaganda in their children textbooks but I see full grown gringos screaming “RUSSIA!!!” when they burn their toast. Like Jesus Christ, you fascist mfs just can’t wait to find a group to scapegoat for everything as soon as the state department points them out to you. America is loudly, proudly yelling at the world how its foreign policy is about bleeding the EU dry so they stay on top, they blew up the fucking nord stream as they implied they would, and now you think the only reason anyone could be anti American is if Putin pays you? I live in a tourist city, I know maybe three people who don’t hate Americans and we all know them firsthand lmao.

Maybe focus on what YOU did wrong by allowing fascism to be so normalized that it can just be elected by a landslide, or what YOU did wrong by refusing to hold democrats accountable, or what YOU did wrong by sitting on your ass waiting for the feds (lmao) to save y’all. The fucking Gestapo runs your government and y’all scream about the long defunct KGB.

The country with the highest stockpile of nuclear weapons, with battle tested capabilities and the most advanced ICBMs in existence, you doubt they have nukes?

There’s drinking the Kool aid and there’s this. I’m legitimately amazed that some of you Americans can mouthbreathe and walk at the same time, and more amazed that half the voting population is even dumber than that.

If this stupid provocation only ended up with America in ashes you’d more than have it coming, but unfortunately we share a world and I’d like to keep living in it, not that y’all made it any better due to your absolute nonchalance about climate change.

I wish they invented a nuclear weapon that only worked on the dumb mfs who think playing chicken with nuclear weapons is so cool.

Google is dead. You look for anything even mildly controversial and all you get is 5 pages of US government press releases and articles that link to them.

Westerners crying because the tone is not reverent and deferrent to the white people. We gotta be civil and demure if we want to discuss the genocide they’re complicit in guys.

That the US is letting Ukraine use NATO missiles and guidance systems that could carry a nuclear warhead they’ve ALWAYS kept a doctrine of first use for. This new doctrine is still not as aggressive as the American one, and this was the entire reason for the conflict, NATO not pointing nuclear weapons at Russia minutes from Moscow. This latest attack was aiming for nuclear infrastructure. How much more provocative does it get?

Americans really need to shut the fuck up about Russia starting a nuclear war when they’re the ones instigating and funding conflict and blocking the peace talks Ukrainians want. When Iran gets tired of Israel and the US endlessly massacring civilians over there you chicken hawk libs are gonna pretend they developed nuclear weapons just to be mean.

You really really care about the Ukraine war? Get shipped there so they don’t have to kidnap citizens out of weddings to put them on the front line. Otherwise, shut up and stop trying to kill the rest of us with you.

Fuck off, Americans might not have a working memory longer than the last headline, but I remember the US proudly supporting the maidan coup with congresspeople on the ground, and I remember the US sending billions in weapons, blocking peace talks that a majority of Ukrainians want (because it wOulD bE a cOnCesSiOn) and Biden authorizing the use of NATO weaponry and guidance systems, any of which could reasonably carry a nuclear warhead. Let’s not foeget the US is the only country to ever use them on people.

I’ve been told for a year that the traditional military operation Russia willingly engaged in was a colossal failure and Russia was bound to fall down at the slightest wind, on other threads you stupid gringos are going"lol he won’t do it let’s keep poking" and then you come on other threads to pretend history starts at the reply and not the provocation.

The rest of the world no longer buys the concern trolling from clueless (or outright malicious) gringos.

The US has done what it’s done for over a century, sabotage, start proxy wars and undermine democracy and when a country replies dumbass fucking libs will start crying about how that country is just being super aggressive for, like, just no reason 😢.

Who gives a fuck about Ukrainians though, what does Jimmy Bob in Bumfuck Nebrahoma think?

It’s the inalienable right of liberals to claim the high ground for their Nazi ass government to sacrifice foreign people for their stock market.

It would all be ok if these stupid leftists had voted for Strasser

If all you had were regular warheads I’d be cheering on Americans playing chicken to their fucking grave but nuclear war would kill me too, get the fuck outta here with that.

At this point, death to America isn’t a radical slogan, it’s in self defense.

The favorite weapon of the westoid, acting like the biggest imbecile in the world and claiming history starts not when they choke you, but when you break their wrist so you can breathe.

Welp there goes my fucking sleep for tonight. I wish Washington and Langley alone would somehow disappear off the face of the earth and solve half the problems in the world overnight.

Why the fuck does the rest of the world have to risk a nuclear extinction (and a climate one, honestly) just because the US are too fucking stupid and greedy to let go of a single cent in the world.

“Who cares about the nuclear holocaust?” Said the man with the blue pin. “This fucking Orange guy is gonna drop enough bombs to destroy the world a thousand times instead of just twice like the guy I told you to vote for”

It’s a better opinion than “US in decline because TOO MUCH democracy”.

Lmao. You just witnessed this last election Dems suing third parties to stop them from running, Dems not even pretending to hold a primary, republicans saying its the last election ever.

But yeah, dude, you’re bang on the money. Less democracy is what’s gonna solve it.

I mean, Lemmy is basically a big discussion forum to share links or get an argument going. You’re obviously gonna get more confrontations.

Bsky/Mastodon/Threads is strangers yelling their thoughts into the void in between posts about their cats or pictures of themselves. Not exactly a place where most people will go in with the intention of dissenting.

This is a misunderstanding of the economic imperatives of imperialism. The US and its billionaire class can only achieve their lavish way of life by way of robbing the entirety of the global south, where most raw resources and manufactured goods come from, via capital extraction.

They force foreign governments to deregulate their economies and open up trade with the US, which means the US getting cheap goods with inflated dollars it can issue at will and poor countries getting dollars it can either reinvest in treasury bonds or redeem at extortionate rates. More often, it’s getting cheap labor to produce goods it will sell in the US at ridiculous margins to the American public. The vehicle for this deregulation is often the IMF imposing those rules to get loans to repay debts (often owed as reparations for declaring independence or irresponsibly issued loans at adjustable rates) but it is understood that the alternative is getting a barrage from one of the 900+ military bases the US has scattered around the world or a visit from the CIA.

After WW2, when the US emerged mostly unscathed with a huge industrial base and nuclear weapons to boot, the American public got a slice of the profit off the US making the dollar the reserve currency of the world, but that wasn’t enough for corporate America. As the world slowly recovered and the rate of profit diminished there’s been scheme after scheme to rob the rest of the world via the petrodollar, or ever more frequent military intervention, because the dollar can’t be allowed to fall.

To cut a long story short, the American public has been paying for every loss of the MIC and the bourgeoisie at large, while financing all of their operations with their dollar and, most importantly, their labor. As long as the US tries to be the hegemon, somebody has to provide them with research, weapons, and boots to put on the ground. That industry must be handsomely rewarded, because it’s the militant arm of the ruling class. Israel is merely a vessel to project military power and funnel federal money to arms dealers. The empire feeds off the republic.

Who’d a thunk allowing a genocidal, theocratic ethnostate access to nuclear weapons would ever lead to issues?

Anyway enough about the US

Empire isn’t profitable to the workers. What’s good for the genersl population is not what’s good for the beneficiaries of empire. Ask Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Haliburton and ExxonMobil if they’d rather Israel not exist.

I misread you, then, my sincere apologies. Seeing a lot of defeatism and it frustrates me because that didn’t help a single bit in 2016 and only made 2020 worse. I agree on your point about the AFL CIO, which is why I’m fond of PSL, they’re very principled domestically, regarding trans rights and on firmly anti-imperialist foreign policy and they’re not part of the Washington aligned labor unions. The comrades I look up to the most are engaged in unions and organizing there.

Ok, then stay home or keep voting democrat, but stop pretending you want change without doing anything to bring it about. Individualism and conformism is exactly what got the US here and both parties would be very happy if y’all stayed that way.

Politics is what happens before and after you cast the ballot. The vote itself might as well be a formality.