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I prefer the formal name in spanish of estadounidense (united-statistian) to American.

Sorry for the poor quality of that response. But I did not have much time at the time, and it's hard for me to write in English (it's not my native language). I thought it was important to point out that in your post, well argued in general, you had introduced a statement without arguments that I don't think fits reality.[^1].

Although this may be a licence to give more force to an argument, I find it especially alarming when this is aligned with the construction of a narrative to promote American imperialism —Yankee anti-imperialism as my subjective position— with an argument with a clearly racist bias —for example: removing the whiteness and Europeaness of ethnic Russians, inciting hatred of Asians, especially those of Han ethnicity and those of Chinese origin—. All of this promotes the fascist drift of the USA and its Western allies.

In any case, and to clarify, I am not accusing you of doing so intentionally, but rather that these types of statements, which seem to me to be at the level of QAnon or flat-earthers, strengthen this fascist drift. BTW, I would have upvoted it without that phrase.

[^1]: Elon Musk lives in the USA, is a member of the US government, has not disagreed (or I am not aware of it) with the tariffs on China or Russia, most of his businesses are based in the USA, he has used the Skyline satellites concurrently with the geostrategic interests of the USA —at least in Ukraine and Iran—,... He could be a detestable human being and an opportunist politician, but their interests seem aligned with the new techno-aristocrat group of the states-unitians oligarchy-only party, now controlled by their Republican faction.

Nice.
On the lemmy.ml instance, we've been having problems with images not showing up lately. So, if the same thing happens to anyone, here's a link from the wikipedia:

Twitter only had value to musk because he wanted to use it as a disinformation tool to help SA/Russia/China.

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Critical support to any gun(wo)men stopping genocide-gun(wo)men.

What's the problem with that reason? It's better to ban the troll fast that to check and evaluate the (hundred) reports pending.

Also, all my support to the sdf admins. I can't understand all this pressing against the non bigger instances, they are doing free work for all of us.

The original text of the cite was b i tch, not removed

obviously-not-open-source

Yes: futo keyboard license. And also a contradictory license with that definition of 'use'.

I would say for most of the coalition countries it was to defend their geopolitical and material interests in the region or those of their allies.

Btw, according to this 1991 article linked from the Wikipedia, it was also a highly propagandized war in the USA.

Not only 75-250k manifested against this war that caused more that a 200.000 deaths. From the libcom link:

In several countries workers went on strike against the war, or against attacks on their working conditions resulting from the war.

In Bangladesh there was a one day general strike in September 1990 protesting against the despatch of Bangladeshi troops to the Gulf. At least 50 people were injured when police used steel- tipped batons against demonstrators. In Pakistan there was a general strike in February against the US bombing of Iraq. Palestinians in the city of Jericho held a three day strike in mourning for the 300 killed in the US attack on the Baghdad bomb shelter. Militants defied the Israeli imposed curfew to call for action through their megaphones.

In the first week of the war, more than 2 million Spanish workers stopped work for two hours demanding an end to the war and the recall of three Spanish warships. In Germany draft resisters forced to work as hospital orderlies went on strike for three days in opposition to the war, and in Italy, 100,000 workers and 30,000 students stopped work on 22 February.

Students took action in many places. In Turkey, 70% of universities were hit by anti-war boycotts in November 1990. At a school in suburban Berkley (near Detroit), 30 high school students were suspended after staging a sit-in. On 22 January there was an anti-war strike at School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Students there organised against intimidatory security measures and racism against Arab students. One Egyptian student told of how "On the tube a guy looked at me and said 'Iraqi bastard'. And you get 'bloody Arab'".

Dockers and seafarers were often at the forefront of action, perhaps not surprisingly given the key role of ships in moving troops and supplies to the Gulf. The departure of French ground forces for Saudi Arabia was delayed when seafarers on a car-ferry requisitioned to carry troops demanded danger money before agreeing to sail. The ferry left Corsica after this dispute was resolved, but it was held up for another 12 hours on 21 September on the dockside at Toulon, by workers opposed to the war. In February, dockers in Marseilles refused to load containers full of military materials destined for the Gulf.

In Japan, the shipment of supplies to US troops was delayed when seafarers refused to leave port without an additional 30% on base salaries to compensate for the military nature of the voyage. Spanish seafarers stopped a passenger ship from sailing to pick up French troops and take them to the Gulf; they refused to let it sail unless its crew had volunteered and were getting increased wages for sailing into a danger zone. The Spanish government had chartered the ship as part of its support for the war.

In this article of may 2024 they confirm they intention of blockade ‘Our operations in the Red Sea are consistent with the world’s demands’: an interview with Yemen’s Ansar Allah. In this one, the effect in a Israel port Israel says Eilat Port ‘bankrupt’ after months of Houthi naval blockade. Or this one, about the cesefire and the blockade: Houthis warn to resume attacks on Israel if Gaza ceasefire is violated