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Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Getting you to read is impossible. Stop white-supremacist vibing and actually read about its historical usage. I even linked you an article, which I know you didn't read.

It's so frustrating to read books about the long history of these things and then have confidently wrong children try to correct you with a vibes-based analysis.

Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Now, using "Americans" to refer to everyone over here did exist before the U.S., going back to at least the 1500s. I think that was only in use in English, I've never looked up what was used in French and Spanish back then. But since the USA came into being as country, it has been the default term for US citizens colloquially.

Confidently wrong. US leaders didn't start referring to its citizens as americans or its country as america until ~1900.

I know you won't read the book I linked, and are going off of white-supremacist vibes, so here's an article for everyone else about the history of this imperialist usage.

Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

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.

Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Usonian also works.

Which animal would you domesticate if you could pick one? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

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

80 years ago, in a galaxy close close in c/memes@lemmy.ml
80 years ago, in a galaxy close close in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 11 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.

80 years ago, in a galaxy close close in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

Challenge level: impossible in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] 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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Lemmy Development Update 2025-02-21 (lemmy.ml)
 

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Mao Zedong - On "Brainwashing" (lemmy.ml)
 

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
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Mao Zedong - On "Brainwashing" (lemmy.ml)
 

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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BenJeau/cargo-interactive-update: A cargo extension CLI tool to update your cargo direct dependencies interactively to the latest version (github.com)
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