- cross-posted to:
- socialism@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- socialism@beehaw.org
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lefty memes
look inside
red liberalism
You know that we have more imperialistic regimes?
China, far right wing Russia and Israel, and some smaller players.
Lol don’t mention any Western European country 😂
Don’t want people to know France has control over several countries and regularly deals arms to Africa
I literally said smaller players.
There’s France, and other countries and what they are doing in Africa. Almost all or all (i don’t know about Norway or Sweden) had imperialistic past, and some are still doing shit in Africa and so on.
Situation in Africa is quite complicated, so it’s hard to remember every single country that is ruining that place. But still it’s no the same scale, as Russian, Chinese, USA, and Israeli imperialism.
My first thought was Zimbabwe and Israel when I heard “smaller players” but nah my point still stands they didn’t mention a Western European country because they didn’t want to
Two things can be true at once. You can remove that part to look more like you know what you’re talking about.
It’s not about the literal meaning of the statement it’s about the meta i.e. how it’s been used in the last decade or so as a way of trying to get away from the uncomfortable challenges that much of the world is essentially forced to react to US beligerence at all levels. So when liberals say Africa is corrupt and that’s why the West has to do what it does and leftists say that the corruption commonly referred to in many African states is actually the result of the the West hand picking the leadership and creating all the incentives for corruption and actively working against any accountability that comes with asserting sovereignty, the liberal will say “two things can be true at the same time” as a way of saying “But I’m not wrong that it’s actually the fault of the corrupt leaders” when in fact the challenge is trying to say that the US is the cause of both the immediate suffering caused by the overt actions of the US and the US is also the cause of the corruption that the liberal is trying to displace blame onto.
I get the vibes, they aren’t exactly deep, but the sentiment is weakened for failing to account for its internal inaccuracy.
It’s delivering its message poorly.
