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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's been democratically instituted many times. And every time America marches in and "liberates" them.

It's difficult to provide good examples when they're all actively destroyed.

[-] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Cuba. Cuba has the most educated population in North America, more doctors per capita then almost any other nation. The only reason they're struggling is because America's embargo. They want stuff too.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is a Brazilian right-winger moron that said this golden statement: "there is only three things that works in Cuba: Security, Education and Healthcare".

For him that's a bad thing btw.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mostly this, although Vietnam is doing quite well, especially considering their circumstances.

Cuba is also really interesting...not thriving, to be sure, but you have to end the US blockade before you blame them for their own hardships. And in spite of everything, they have democracy like we've never seen in the west.

Edit: also what beejboytyson said about Cuba.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

The US dropped more napalm, and bombs, and agent orange on vietnam (a comparatively small country) than it did during all of WW2. Lots of its people are still suffering from this atrocity.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Sadly true. And most people aren't aware that they did pretty much the same thing to Laos, who they weren't even at war with. They just carpet bombed the whole country, "just in case."

Fuck the USA. They're literally the evil empire from star wars.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

It's so funny that george lucas was like: "the rebels are the vietnamese communists, and the empire is the USA (its soldiers the storm troopers)" and somehow a lot of modern star wars fans are extremely pro-US, and never connect the dots.

IMO the biggest critique of star wars, its that lucas didn't focus at all on the lives of the stormtruppen, and force its audience in the imperial core to look in the mirror, at their values, their chauvinist culture, their pro-war ideology and news media.

Still gotta keep blaming the rebels for all the world's problems.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That's true, the storm troopers and stuff are basically presented as automatons. I guess some audiences like not having to think, but it would have been much more impactful to show them as people with their own beliefs and motivations and stuff.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

There's a lot of short stories about that in various books, though they tend to overuse both the tropes of banality of evil and the cackling evil maniacs.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Oh interesting, I've never really delved past the movies.

They did also choose to humanize a storm trooper with Finn in the new films, but I don't remember him going through any "deprogramming" or anything, he just kinda realizes he's a nice guy one day.

It would have been much more interesting to see him struggle with his changing worldview.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

From recent books, short stories anthology "From a Certain Point of View" have some quite good ones, can recommend.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Well, I am always looking for book recommendations... I'll put this on my list 🙂

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago
[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

May he have pineapples shoved up his arse in hell, right next to old hitler.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 3 months ago

Yeah but all forms of government are constantly attacked. You’re like a multicellular organism crying foul because bacteria and other pathogens are trying to invade it.

One of the reasons capitalism wins is it produces enough wealth to win wars. Consistently. The same wealth that leads to ever-lower levels of poverty also wins wars.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism causes wars.

WWI was an inter-imperialist war. WWII was two wars: on the Western front it was an inter-imperialist war and on the Eastern front it was largely a war to crush socialism. Most of the wars since then have been imperialist wars of aggression against imperialized states, many of them by the United States, the global imperialist hegemon that has over 750 overseas military bases.

The same wealth that leads to ever-lower levels of poverty

Where have you been during the last 40 years of neoliberalism and neocolonialism?
And explain this: United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I have bad news for you about the rate of poverty...

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