Americans don't know that there's a world outside of the US. They genuinely believe that the world will cease to function without them.

She described Nawrocki, a marine veteran of two decades with six tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, as a “smartass” who loved to make her laugh and was driven to fight in Ukraine because of the toll he had seen on civilians.

She did not want her son to go to Ukraine but this “was an unprovoked war,” she said. “This is everyone’s war. If Russia wins, wins over Ukraine, that affects Poland, that affects all the European countries.”

How on earth do these people reconcile these sentences in their head?

I've been enjoying red note so much. USians honestly seem embarrassed that they believed all the nonsense they were taught.

For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico's democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.

I like to watch the TV series "Mayday: Air Crash Investigations". The US dubs their version though, and I got curious one day. I watched the original and the US dub side by side of S3E06 "Mistaken Identity", which was about the time that a US Aegis Cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf. As I suspected, the US version was censored.

It was very interesting which bits were censored. It was fairly obvious that they would want to cut any parts that humanised the Iranians. To my surprise, they didn't cut the bits where the crew was praised for their actions. But the most interesting bit for me was that they cut a couple of interviews with the crew of the cruiser, where they talked about how terrified they were of the plane.

They absolutely do not want you to know that their great invincible navy spent half their time peeing in their pants when an airliner flew overhead.

I've read a whole lot of US history last year. I've never seen the country in this big of a public debacle before. They've usually been pretty good about making dissent quietly disappear. But they're spinning so many plates right now, and the cracks in their "good guy" facade are just growing deeper and deeper. It really makes me wonder if this is what's going to finally break their back. More and more people are waking up to the reality that they've lived their whole lives in the worst kind of propaganda. Something's gotta give. I think Vietnam was the closest we've seen to this, and it was just one war. Now the US faces trying to start shit with China, fighting a proxy war with Russia, and somehow coming up with a way of demonising Palestine and Iran. Their propaganda machine is failing quite badly.

The change in sales pitch comes as polls show that Americans are growing more skeptical of the effort to help Ukraine — and continue to question Biden’s handling of the economy.

Wow. That's a pretty big crack there. Can you imagine capitalist media printing that last year?

Using economic sanctions to get another country to do what you want. Kind of like the US blockade of Cuba. The link to the document doesn't work, but here's one that works for me.

Think about it. She's lamenting all the hostility they get from most liberal instances, but clearly holds hexbear in contempt, and she defederated from us. Why would she prefer their company over us? We ARE the other big queer instances that she so hopes to find. It's a meme that trans girls are all communists, and I'm sure she knows it. This seems to me that she has a very active interest in stopping this. Why else would Nazis be less problematic than us?

Generally the people I meet from such countries are here because they're liberals. So of course I'm going to hear liberal takes from them.

Sadly I do not know many nationals of these countries. My best friend in University had a Chinese girlfriend though. The relationship really didn't work out because she was so eager to return home, and he wanted to stay in the west. Sample size of 1, so pretty meaningless, but it's all I've got for empirical anecdotes.

Now you have some idea of how we feel on Reddit. The difference here is that karma doesn't matter. And hexbearers can't even downvote your comments anyway. You're just complaining that you have to listen to another point of view.

You're obviously just agitating, but I'll bite.

A reactionary is defined by the OED as "a person who is opposed to political or social change".

The propaganda you posted was about the famine in 1933. Read the link you were given. It's an overused talking point with a grain of truth. It's propaganda because it specifically blames communism for a natural disaster. And people who typically bring it up completely gloss over what was happening in capitalist north America at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

I might also argue that it's not so much "if you don't meet the quota, you're paid less", but more of "if you meet the quota, you're paid more". But that's a matter of personal bias. I work in a capitalist country, and both statements apply to me. I would be more charitable with the socialist state, and probably use your statement to describe my job, but that's my personal bias.