This has been the guiding principle for protest movements around the world for well over a decade and most have completely failed. That includes Occupy! Wall Street faced no consequences for the recession they caused and inequality has continued to rise unchecked. You can argue that Trumps first win was a direct consequence of American’s feeling abandoned by their government after 8 years of Obama failed to address the fallout of the 2008 recession. Occupy did nothing to stop that.

Thats exactly why these protests are not effective. The pedophiles in charge of the US have leverage over most Americans and No Kings doesn’t address that problem.

Personally I think it’s worth a little space to have peace of mind. Also depending on where you live having a few week supply of food and drinking water in storage is generally recommended in case of a natural disaster.

That said, if you’re in a western countries that produces most of its own food you’ll probably be fine. Those countries produce such an incredibly surplus that much of it gets diverted towards animal agriculture. If you can afford meat and dairy now you’ll probably be able to afford rice and beans if prices rise.

It would be a hell of a lot more sustainable if we ended animal agriculture.

You’ve misunderstood them entirely. To them, liberals include both democrats and republicans. Thats not an uncommon usage among Marxists. They also use woke in an ironic way because of how right wingers used it to insult almost reflexively.

Pro western propaganda is often not just about promoting western countries. It also includes lying about enemies of the west. Pro western media also has a disproportionate focus on the faults of its enemies. It totality that kind of bias suggests there is an imbalance between the harms caused by the west and other countries leaning in the west’s favor.

I think plenty of westerners can identify the lies western media tells about the west. Thats easy enough to do given westerners have first hand experience living in western countries. Unfortunately, even well intentioned westerners are much worse at identifying those other forms of propaganda. As such, they have a hard time understanding geopolitical conflict between western nationals and other countries.

Personaly, I find the “argument by hypocrisy” isn’t really what critics of the west are doing. Instead, bringing up the harms caused by the west is meant to undermine the credibility of a western source and/or criticize it for its lack of focus on harms caused by the west. If you avoid jumping to accusations of “whataboutism” and engage in good faith, I’m confident many of the people you claim are “tankies” will give you a much more nuanced critique of the countries you think they’re reflexively defending.

It’s seems like they are though. There graphs are in PPP and they are saying they are using purchasing power adjusted numbers. The US just spends an immense amount of money on research, most of which benefits industry.

Yes all of that matters. My point is that US democracy is a sham. There have been plenty of studies that show US policy is dictated almost exclusively by the interests of the wealthy and not the interests of the population at large. Trump is symptom of this mess.

Americans are frustrated at their current conditions but they have no tools to understand why they suffer. The American education system is full of propaganda and so is their corporate run media. The wealthy capitalists that control the US are okay with Americans picking Trump as an acceptable outlet for their frustrations. The alternative to that would be real left wing policy and they can’t accept that.

Also recognize, the world suffered under democrats as well. Obama turned Libya into a perpetual war zone and Biden supported one of the most well documented genocides of our time. It’s a hubristic empire run by pedophiles and pedophile enablers and it never mattered what the people really wanted.

They repeatedly call the US imperialist but they did not use that word to describe China. It should be obvious then that if they intended to call China imperialist they would have. Unfortunately for you, insults aren’t a substitute for poor reading comprehension.

I don’t think Americans ever got a choice in the matter. Trump ran as an anti war candidate, about a third of Trump supporters do not support this war, and the majority of Americans are opposed to it.

Don’t forget congress is complicit too. They’re choosing to let this happen.

Stop projecting. The JCP did not call China imperialist. They did call the US imperialist. Feel free to prove me wrong but we both know you can’t.

I think that’s pretty much impossible especially with a centralized system like Signal. Even in a decentralized system it’s difficult to make a messaging service that’s truly anonymous and unobservable.

You linked to a section of a Wikipedia article which cites the opinion of the Japanese Communist Party where they don’t call China imperialist. In the same document that’s cited they call the US imperialist repeatedly. Why do you expect anyone to take you seriously when the evidence you’re using to support your argument is so incredibly weak?

Yes, and the US mobilized real quick to turn that fallout into an unethical medical experiment on tens of thousands of people. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Are you going to defend the Tuskegee experiments too? Have some shame for fucks sake. Reflexively defending crimes against humanity because the US can do no wrong in your mind is incredibly gross.

Just retire already old man. Spend time with your grand children instead of whatever the fuck this is.

He doesn’t know how LLMs work and seems to have been convinced that they’re poised to cause some kind of AI doomsday. He even posted a video recently where he talked to Eliezer Yudkowsky of all people. It’s honestly embarrassing.

Hasan is like a lot of people on the US left. Their rational mind will read and agree with ML leaders and thinkers from around the world. However they have a hard time facing the reality that organizing in then US is next to impossible under the current conditions. So to give themselves some degree of hope, they latch onto the most tepid social democrats.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Most liberals I’ve seen on lemmy choose to pretend that US crimes against humanity are in the past. Rarely do I encounter someone so defensive that they openly support secret medial experimentation on native peoples. Project 4.1 happened well after the US dropped bombs on Japan. It continued for decades after. Your flimsy defense of such disgusting behavior falls apart under the slightest amount of scrutiny.

Feel free to live in a fantasy world where the US were “the good guys” but in doing so you’re tacitly endorsing the seriously despicable shit the US did to people around the world including it’s own citizens. If you do that don’t be so surprised when people start to call you a fascist.

There was a difference but not in the direction you’re thinking. After the US tested a nuclear bomb in the marshal islands that led to an unexpected large fallout not only did they cover it up, they launched a secretive study to see how the fallout would affect the local inhabitants of affected islands. It’s genuinely hard to top that level of fucked up.