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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

I've always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

Every so often you'll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 14 hours ago

This right here is the actual reason libs hate Trump so much. He doesn't try to put a fig leaf over the atrocities US commits, he just comes out and says we're in Syria to take their oil.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

nah. its the bafoonary, and the self centeredness and who he enables.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago

And half the population cheers him on for saying it, the other half are mad that he revealed their "secret" plan.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 90 points 23 hours ago

USA 1970s

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 9 hours ago

What kind of pants is that and where can I bought the same?

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

Try searching high waisted bell bottoms

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago

Posting picture of 70s men to deter the possible attack?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

Or to encourage someone to liberate the country from the upcoming fascist regime? 🤷

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

Upcoming...America been fucky for a long time.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

Sure, but it's about to go from awful to historically atrocious.

Everything that's broken now is going to continue to be as broken or get worse, and a ton of other things are going to be broken beyond repair.

Don't be fooled by the business as usual behavior of the Dem leadership now that they're not trying to get elected; this is fucking catastrophic for the entirety of humanity.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Im not fooled, I just think americans have been doing the whole emperors new clothes thing for a long time. It has always been built on nonsense and bravado and now it will be crippled by it. It is so very obvious that this is a mission of america's enemies but it is deserved at this stage.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

this is fucking catastrophic for the entirety of humanity.

I agree it's dangerous, but 85% of humanity live in countries that are already either on USA's shit list or don't-give-a-shit list, and have never benefited from a Democrat US government either.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yes, I know. My point is that what's already bad is gonna get much worse.

As awful as the Neoliberal status quo that the Dem leadership lost all parts of the government insisting on, the first Trump administration was just a trial run where he was often hindered by people with a modicum of scruples or those without being unprepared to the point of incompetence.

Jan 6th was the Beer hall putsch. They're doing the night of the long knives and the Reichstag fire simultaneously while the Mango Mussolini takes the train to ~~Rome~~ Washington. Additional reference to 1920s and 30s fascism.

[-] Graphy@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

As someone who has spent their whole life fighting against their hair wanting to look feathered I just want to say that I’d be killing it in the 70s

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago

I just need a few pairs of those pants, like right now

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

How dare they de-babe the women!

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 60 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Especially absurd to use this propaganda angle when the West is backing Islamic fundamentalists to overthrow a secular state

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's a particularly effecttive angle because progressive liberals are sympathetic towards the victims of fundamentalist regimes, but are largely ignorant to the US's backing of them, while conservative liberals are just looking for an excuse to be racist.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 32 points 23 hours ago

"You do not understand. Moslem bad and the government look like Moslem therefore we must kill all their women." - Average liberal.

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml -5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The US is actually backing socialists and even communists in Syria. HTS is mostly on its own. The US supports Assad over HTS.

Edit: Lol, downvote me all you want, doesn't change that the US chose the socialist YPG/PKK as their ally. Tbf though, their main ideology is ethnic nationalism, socialism for them is nowadays more a tool to fool some naive westerners.

Edit 2: I am a socialists myself. Still doesn't change facts.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 15 hours ago

This is wrong. The US supports HTS through Turkey and through their Al Tanf base in the south of Syria.

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 hours ago

Oh my, two mistakes in one sentence... HTS is not active in the south and Turkey supports the SNA (FSA) which is at times cooperating with HTS, but is at odds with them at the same time. The tentions just flared up today again and let to a lot of bloodshet between SNA and HTS in the last. Turkey did occasionally protect the HTS to a degree against Assads agressions (to prevent Assad from gaining ground), but also tried to get rid of them.

The US supports neither the SNA, nor HTS, but supports the YPG in the north and a mercenary troop in the south that acts like they were FSA, not HTS.

You know literally nothing about the conflict. Stop writing about it

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

HTS is active in the south around Al Tanf.

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The groups in Al Tanf market themselves as Free Syrian Army (the original revolitionaries) and nowadays sometimes as Syrian Free Army.

https://syrianobserver.com/foreign-actors/free-syrian-army-in-tanf-changes-its-leaders.html

As said above, imo the groups in Al Tanf are simple mercenaries and have nothing to do with the original FSA.

But one thing they surely are not, they are not HTS affiliated.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago

🤣

[-] sweet_pecan@hexbear.net 13 points 18 hours ago

i suddenly need a crochet vest

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago

Those are some sweet fuckin pants, I want some

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 23 hours ago

Democracy©

[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Disagree, it’s if we find out about oil we need to liberate it

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 31 points 20 hours ago

Oil is only one factor, what matters is the country's stance towards US Imperialist interests and how they work for or against those interests.

[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

Oh yeah I forgot, also selling oil in any currency besides USD. That will get you some freedom! 🦅🦅🦅

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Well oil was discovered in Crimea and northeast Ukraine in like 2012, so we really dropped the ball there.

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 27 points 23 hours ago

lmao the 1970s was still ba'athist but under Assad's dad

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