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1917isnow , 1 month ago

The DSA is the leftmost wing of US fascist politics, it's a perfect example of what people call leftism for the most part. All that interests them is the conditions of workers in imperial core countries. They just recently went to Cuba to denounce their revolution and refused to meet with their president. The arrogance is jawdropping.

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Do you mean could there be a better infographic posted? With more info about decolonization?

I have some resources there, people are competing to make the flashiest infographics about it now which is nice. Extremely fringe benefit of YouTube and TikTok.

Or did you mean poorer countries celebrating a new kind of independence day once they stop relying on Washington or get rid of military bases from Euros?

Because I hope the Sahel states will celebrate their alliance with by establishing a new holiday if they haven't already. For getting rid of the damn French.

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

It's an image with a caption 😤 couldn't find another comm

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Oh hell yeah, I'll get you some infographics on imperialism. I've got maps of world trade and whatnot. When I clock off I'll upload them.

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Hopefully the map of complete removal of NATO military bases will grow

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

It's a long story, and my entry point into understanding the breakup of the British sterling system was history about post-WWI shift from colonial empires to Harry Truman "development" (really maldevelopment, the language used for capitalist NGO aid today is very similar to his inaugural address).

Long story short it involves merciless application of death and torture to enclose a region and keep costs down, as well as ruthless exploitation of civilians to try to crack guerillas, the Phoenix Program's main innovation over what was implemented in the Congo and Malaysia was a proto-internet communications system,and a methodical operations system escalating above that to commando squads and air strikes. The philosophy of anti-colonial torture has only grown more severe and incorporated electrical wires, clinical psychology, and evasion of human rights organizations. Look up "The Five Techniques".

This is in order to establish a top-down system where colonies do not trade with one another, but only interface with the rigged colonial economy. Wall st + world bank + imf system has just taken this to further extremes with Blackrock and Vanguard against 84% of the population of the world plus 90% of the population of the remaining 16% in global north countries. The currency system being used is less crude and there is also the technological dependency on the payment systems like Swift to consider.

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Also the graphic looks atrocious

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Lol, you're right. In fact it's a US vassal now

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

[airhorn x3]

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

The US empire took over for the British empire and they absolutely, like, they LOVE us dude, to an annoying extent our pop culture feeds off each others'

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

[airhorn x4] [foghorn] [car awooga x2] [glass breaking] [wilheim scream] [airhorn x2]

1917isnow OP , 1 month ago

Wow they really have some geniuses over at lemmy.world, you should probably check with Bangladeshis

1917isnow , 1 month ago

Not a bad option, but what are the potential advantages over using the Pages feature of Misskey forks, or simply Wordpress?

Substack itself didn't even present a correct UI to me on mobile so I never bothered with it when it was initially popularized. Still seems to have the issue, too.

1917isnow , 1 month ago

That's a dealbreaker for me, I may consider badgering people in my Wordpress RSS folder to ditch it, on a case-by-case basis. Even liberals are sensitive to AI stuff because it upsets them to see Journalism Infringed

1917isnow , 1 month ago

You're not wrong in all likelihood, but Mastodon and Misskey and their forks all have a thingy to send an opt out of AI scraping request.

1917isnow , 1 month ago

FediDB is really the best way to look around for servers. Totally being actively developed, there's way too many forks IMHO, but I'm sure the project maintainers would disagree for the time being.

Misskey.io seems to have range banned a lot of stuff so it's not a good demo instance. You can't translate the Japanese posts while logged out, either!

1917isnow , 1 month ago

That's really good to know, thanks, I'd assumed they were a shitty blob company until I heard they were adding federation, but I guess that intuition was correct. Sounds almost Threads-tier.

1917isnow , 1 month ago

Hell a lot of the time the data just ends up labelled "do not share" but still ends up in shared databases or stolen ones

1917isnow , 1 month ago

They're trying to use the climate to get the dang change from our pockets!!!