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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 46 minutes ago

Most americans, the majority of whom don't live in the US, dislike the usurpation of that term. There's a longer history starting in the late 1800s of US politicians using "america", "greater america", to coincide with its imperial ambitions in Latin america and the carribean.

The USA even had a time when it had more people in its colonies living outside its contiguous borders, than it did inside.

There's a lot on this in the book, how to hide an empire.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Usonian also works.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Zebra or giraffe. Not to ride, just to go on walks with.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

China, Russia, and the US were not part of the Axis.

Only the Ukrainian nationalist jewish-massacreing banderites fought for the Axis, and the post-2014 Ukrainian government venerates him.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Out of the four, only the Ukrainian nationalists were part of the axis powers.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

It's not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

Most countries were not founded in this way.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It's rotten to the core.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The US has been the most evil country on earth long before musk arrived.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The author Domenico Losurdo uses the term mutual demystification a lot, especially in Liberalism - a counter history. When two parties accuse each other of being hypocrites, it often ends up showing that they both are.

 
 
 

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24853237

Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades.

What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.

  • Mao Zedong
 

Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades.

What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.

  • Mao Zedong
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