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The USA would illegally invade & occupy the USA to keep the oil.

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first-time

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Seems rather excessive, doesn’t it? The genocide we’re currently supporting also seems a bit much.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/59e40e2d-d21f-48cc-925a-4dfaee40da84.jpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMCvGlbbc4&t=20s

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This will probably devolve into the usual tropes. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.

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You understand who runs this empire, right? It isn’t Antony Blinken or Lloyd Austin porky-happy

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parenti-hands (https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/394ab540-b650-4a10-899d-ba01b0c177ff.png)

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I don’t know why you’re fixated on “60 tanker trucks.”

According to witnesses, the looting caravan consisted of 69 tankers loaded with oil and another 45 with wheat stolen from the silos in the city.

Do you believe that this one eyewitness report represents the entirety of what the US has done in Syria over the past decade?

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60 trucks 60 trucks 60 trucks is convincing to one user, anyway 🙄

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This pedantry is ridiculous, wrong, and annoying. The Han ethnic group that was in a relatively small patch of land ~4,000 years ago is hardly the same thing as the contemporary Westphalian sovereign state known as People's Republic of China, which formed less than a hundred years ago and comprises many ethnicities.

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What part of shining city on a hill do no not get, Canuck?

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I think they would find your pedantry annoying as well.

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Real capitalism doesn’t have bailouts and central management and endless regulatory red tape that favors the rich corporate bosses.

That’s still just capitalism. The state has been captured by the bourgeoisie since its birth in the 1776 bourgeois revolution. The Founding Fathers formed a bourgeois democracy, otherwise known as a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The state has never represented the proletariat, and it was never supposed to.

Real capitialism is everyone fighting like cats and dogs to provide the best product at the lowest prices, which has not been happening in America since the days before Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

Firstly that is also just capitalism, and secondly, by the time Rockefeller became a robber baron it was already no longer that type of capitalism, but monopoly capitalism, which we still have today. This type of capitalism had been predicted by Marx and described in great detail by Lenin in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

we live under a hardline socialist regime in the USA

So you don’t have even a basic understanding of capitalism or of socialism. Even Wikipedia isn’t this wrong.

Thus the capital of the poor continues to flow one direction, to the rich, and if the rich get into trouble, the government takes more capital from the poor to bail out the rich. That is socialism, not capitalism.

As long as the state serves the bourgeoisie, it is a capitalist state. A socialist state is when the state serves the proletariat. Communism is when it is a classless society. And sovereign fiat money doesn’t work that way. The government doesn’t get its money from the poor or from anyone else: it just creates it out of thin air. Why The Government Has Infinite Money

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Happy Perfect Date Day, to those who celebrate.

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When you run out of evidence, there’s always insults.

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Good point: I didn’t click upthread to see the beginning of the conversation.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ce5b43a7-baa3-4069-a451-f3306f674156.png

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Here’s a fun bonus one:

A helpful graphic about writing alt text (lemmy.ml)

image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including "identify who", "expression", "description", "colour", and "interesting features". The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are...

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A capybara in the library with a candlestick.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/82e42a23-a644-4727-97e5-dd4a95a904e6.jpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ROhf5Soqs

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Kurzgesagt is neoliberal garbage.

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porky-scared-flipped gui-better porky-point

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ea9a3348-c5c4-4442-b1d9-38543b16f5f0.png hammer-sickle

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I’m as left as they come, and anyone to the left of me is a MAGA troll.

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Obviously you do, and obviously the Bolsheviks and Maoists and the Cuban communists successfully did.

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!nonpolitical_memes

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Gay

Reporter, please show us in the Lemmy Code of Conduct where being gay is a reportable offense. And anyway, the gays don’t have a monopoly on having things driven up their asses.

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obama-medal

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Inflation isn’t just price gouging, though we seem to be in a spate of it lately.

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Make👏 squatting👏 great👏 again👏

Broke-Ass Stuart: Bring Back Trespassing, For San Francisco’s Sake

We don’t need raves in dead malls & office buildings in SF though, what we need is housing. We need squatting.

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The mortgage tax advantage is just one component of it.

After WWII we made (mostly suburban) homes be retirement investment vehicles for (almost exclusively white) working class people. That was a terrible choice for all future generations of the working class. Now most people (white or not) are priced out. It’s been great for the boomers and the real estate & finance industries, though, thanks to asset price inflation.

From Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host (PDF):

The Bubble Economy vs classical industrial growth

The stock market is not the largest part of the economy whose prices
are inflated by bank credit. As the biggest asset category, real estate is by
far the largest market for debt. The Federal Reserve’s quarterly Flow of
Funds statistics show that by 2007-08, about 80 percent of new bank loans
were real estate mortgages. Most such loans are to buy property already
in place, just as most stock market transactions are for shares long since
issued.

The effect is twofold: it inflates asset prices ranging from real estate to
entire companies, and yields banks interest that imposes a carrying charge
on buyers. That is what makes bubble economies high-cost. Housing prices
are inflated, requiring mortgage debtors to pay more. Companies borrow
to buy other companies, increasing the volume of corporate debt simply
to finance ownership changes. And education is financialized, enabling
students to afford higher tuition costs by committing to pay monthly debt
service out of what they earn after they graduate.

The resulting financial overhead consists of claims on the economy’s
actual means of production. Yet most people think of these bonds, bank loans
and stocks and creditor claims as wealth, not its antithesis on the debit side
of the balance sheet. This inside-out doublethink is a precondition for the
bubble economy to be applauded by the mass media, keeping its corrosive
momentum expanding.

From the corporate sphere and real estate to personal budgets, the
distinguishing feature over the past half-century has been the rise in debt/
equity and debt/income ratios. Just as debt leveraging has hiked corporate
break-even costs of doing business, so the cost of living has been increased as homes and office buildings have been bid up on mortgage credit. “Creating wealth” in a debt-financed way makes economies high-cost,
exacerbated by the tax shift onto labor and consumers instead of capital
gains and “free lunch” rent. These financial and fiscal policies have enabled
financial managers to siphon off the industrial profits that were expected
to fund capital formation to increase productivity and living standards.

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Thanks, it has pockets!

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I decided to never own a car again, and that was the tiebreaker.

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I swear you are like a box of chocolates, Cablemonster. You contain multitudes.

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Yeah that’s a thing now. Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, Samantha Power. Three women, loads of lies and the destruction of Libya

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amerikkka

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Yeah why do these countries keep being unstable? Nobody knows 🤷

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Firstly, you lumped anti-imperialist—and until recently imperialized—Russia and China in with the imperialist USA. The Chinese went through a century of humiliation under British colonialism, and the Russian people went through a cold war followed by neocolonial “shock therapy” from the US.

Secondly, the UN is incapable of doing any such thing, and the countries don’t need or want its patronizing. Your Western chauvinism is showing when you think these are backwards people who need to be administered by others. What they need is for the Global North imperialist states to stop pillaging them.

Thirdly, calling one of your own instance’s admins a fucking knob is a bold move.

Edit to add: It looks like you’ve been a PITA for mods & admins: https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&userId=1589893

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I think CableMonster might be in the neoclassical economics camp, which insists that “inflation” is definitionally “money creation,” that they’re essentially synonyms. They refuse to entertain any other possible explanations for a rise in prices, and that’s why price gouging can’t be a component of inflation and therefore must be a boogeyman.

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You seem to think you’re explaining, over and over, how voting works to people who don’t know how voting works, but they do know. You’re enlightening no one.

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Are these bots in the room with us now? https://lemmy.ml/comment/9279492

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They’re all related to your BlueAnon conspiracy theory about Russian bots, which you didn’t explicitly state but clearly meant to imply.

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half of the “people”

Why are people in quotes? Because you mean bots, meaning paid shills and/or software “arguing disingenuously,” and not regular people posting earnestly/organically.

if their only political opinion is about how bad biden really is… and they never talk about trump, russia or ukraine…
then it’s a duck

What “duck” are you alluding to? Russian bots.

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People like you posting low effort shit like this and people upvoting it not because they find it funny, but because they share your political view are turning lemmy into communist circle jerk.

A spectre is haunting Lemmy — the spectre of specter shitposts.

Have you considered simply blocking this community?

people upvoting

What is wrong with these people? QUIT HAVING FUN.

I believe you are hurting this community

Have you considered that this might not be your community?

Like, the whole corporate social media universe is basically libs only territory, and plenty of fediverse instances are libs only territory, and you want to complain about the tiny corner that is !memes, which no one’s forcing you to look at?

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[Citation needed]

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Liberalism

Liberalism is an idealist ideology that promotes free market principles, individualism, and fundamental rights (also known as bourgeois privileges). Liberalism emerged as the ideological component of capitalism, and gained administrative power as a result of the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries in North America and Europe. Liberalism, the philosophy behind the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, has consistently changed over the centuries, as a result of advancement in the productive forces and the development of the feudal serfdom into the industrial proletariat, and has now turned into neoliberalism, as a result of the consolidation of capital into the hands of the few, and to protect the ruling class from socialism, which is currently in the process of replacing capitalism as the primary mode of production.

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Preliminarily: For better or worse, !memes doesn’t exclude politics, and it has been that way since before I even created my Lemmy user account. As far as I’m concerned, the comm is what it is. It’s been here since Lemmy’s inception, and !nonpolitical_memes was created three years later (also before my time).

I believe that people who upvote it do it not because they laughed, but because they agree with the political message. And I don’t think memes should be like that.

I agree with you that many people (up/down) vote on political memes not for the quality of the meme but for agreement in the politics. I was on Reddit for over 15 years and made the same observation as you. I, too, am not a fan of low quality memes bubbling to the top on account of their political message, and I personally don’t upvote them. One could try to argue that this behavior is a Reddit holdover, but I suspect that it’s human nature. Just look at how low-quality political cartoons often are in newspapers.

If someone wants to create a political meme community (of whatever political stripe), where the mods aggressively remove low quality memes, they certainly can, and I wish them the best of luck.

I understand that you don’t like the politics of !memes, and I do sympathize with your frustration with the low-quality memes. We can’t police people’s voting motivations, so—unfortunately for you and me—the low-quality memes are not going away. The politics reflect the community, and if the politics don’t reflect you, then it might not be your community. Just block/unsubscribe and move on.

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Thank you. I was having a hard time imagining that this hasn’t been a thing for decades.

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I doubt they’re all Nazis, I only know about Navalny.

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And I know about the founder of the fascist National Bolshevik party, Aleksandr Dugin, who some Lemmitor falsely claimed was Putin’s “right-hand man” the other day.

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@xor 😂

Reporter: [REDACTED]
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It seems that sea lion has come up a few times with your young account. Maybe it’s a crybully tactic; maybe it’s projection? https://infosec.pub/search?creatorId=6470527&q=sea+lion

Your modlog isn’t a pretty picture for such a young account, either: https://infosec.pub/modlog/userId=

Banned @xor from the community memes@lemmy.world
reason: Abusing the Reporting system - 3 day ban

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