I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse, but I don't think the kind of mindset you're talking about in this thread is a thing specific to places that have been couped. For the US for example, I'm not sure if I've seen it on lemmygrad directly that I can recall, but I know on Twitter I've seen stuff along the lines of like "why is the left so useless" and it's like, um, well its revolutionaries keep getting imprisoned or murdered by the state, then the messages of those revolutionaries (if they are allowed to be seen in popular media at all) get watered down into liberalism after their death, and aesthetic takes the place of substance in support of the status quo and methods of resistance like the feckless "resistance liberal" who "posts really hard and angrily about voting for a candidate who is carrying out genocide so the other genocide candidate won't get in" are all that is allowed to be spoken about as a valid tactic in the media with the most reach.

People get frustrated and I think one way to approach it is to treat it less like a dismissal of an entire people and more like a strategy question. Underneath the dismissal is someone who probably wants a better world, but doesn't understand why it isn't happening or how to bring it about, from where they're standing.

Beijing is conducting espionage activities on what Western governments say is an unprecedented scale, mobilizing security agencies, private companies and Chinese civilians in its quest to undermine rival states and bolster the country’s economy.

Reads like pure projection. Like if you change the wording to:

Washington is conducting espionage activities on what anti-imperialist governments say is an unprecedented scale, mobilizing security agencies, private companies and American civilians in its quest to undermine rival states and bolster the country’s economy.

It's basically just what the US has been doing for decades.

I'm sure China is doing some covert offensive things. It'd be a bit odd if they weren't considering they can't have any lasting peace while the western empire is still going. In that sense, it's more like defensive offense, most likely, in the same general meaning as Palestine trying to survive a genocide when they take out an occupier tank. Some of it's probably real, some probably fabricated to manufacture consent for cold war, but either way, the characterization of it reads like very clear projection.

I don't even know what to say. Just thinking about the amount of planning going into this terrorism.

If true—and it's sure not hard to believe it is given the endless fucked up stuff western colonialism and imperialism has done over centuries—all I can say is, they make ghouls look like casper.

Every day I have to wake up and deal with the fact that this is considered a real country.

Bronk said that "it's so much cheaper and easier" to invest now in the capabilities to deter Russia than it is "to actually invest in the forces capable of fighting an extended war for six months, a year, two years."

This is the important part, isn't it. "Invest more money, but don't worry about the long term, just hand over the cash, the short term is what matters here."

"Bully returns home, tells mom it was traumatizing when victim fought back."

Pretty sure he's been showing visible signs of cognitive decline since 2020 elections. The sad part for people who aren't genocidal imperialists, is I'm not sure how much it matters either way. Supposing that he's not all there, a clear-minded Biden would likely be making much the same decisions, considering his past record in politics. So either way, he's still a piece of shit doing immense harm, whether he's all there mentally doing it or he's somewhat of a stand-in for it by this point.

After seeing western empire news repeatedly call the genocide they're doing to the Palestinian people a "war", I'm getting to the point I just assume that if they call something a war, they are talking about something they or one of their proxies is being violent about and they are both sidesing it to make it sound less bad.

Reminds me of Parenti talking about JFK assassination and the gangster nature of the state.

Have had it on my mind cause of other stuff recently too, like this: https://x.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1791581687178281026

Billionaire CEOs didn't just reach Mayor Adams in a private chat urging him to arrest pro-Palestine Columbia students, they also offered PRIVATE staff to help NYPD. The Mayor accepted.

Members of the group also coordinated with Israel's war cabinet, UN ambassador and former PM.

Or the Boeing whistleblowers who keep being unalived.

Then this thing from Blinken: not directly threatening starvation, but implying what will happen if you go against them.

Then was also thinking about how imperialist media has accused Russia of being a gangster state before and the whole "every accusation is a confession" thing.

"Condemn in the strongest possible terms" makes me think of that line from A Few Good Men:

"I strenuously object?" Is that how it's done? Hm? "Objection, your Honor." "Overruled" "No, no. I STRENUOUSLY object." "Oh. You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider."

Also, he calls it "Iran's attacks", but considering what Iran did was 100% self defense after a loathsome attack done to them, it can be taken to mean that he is saying he "condemns in the strongest possible terms" any right for Iran to defend itself, i.e. he views the fake settler state of israel as being a legitimate state and doesn't see Iran as a legitimate state or even as actual people who have a right to defend themselves. Which tells you all you need to know about how these white supremacists view the region.

Nothing to make flying feel safe like an airplane quality whistleblower being unalived.