They’re very heavy, have no wings, and once they get off the ground they lose propulsion.

Michael Stipe described it as “complete babbling”.

This dependence on USAID funding is actually a symptom of a more critical problem within the healthcare system and the government as a whole: widespread, high-level mismanagement and corruption.

Their dependence on USAID is actually a symptom of the very neocolonialism that USAID exists to create & maintain.

• BadEmpanada: Trump Defunds USAID & NED, Accidentally Does Anti-Imperialism

  When China helps to build a hospital somewhere, the people who say that sort of thing are the first ones to say, “Oh come on man, you really think they’re just building the hospital out of the goodness of their heart? They expect something in return for that. You know they’re trying to build their influence there. This is imperialism.” And then those people will look at the USA, doing nothing even close to being that clearly beneficial with USAID, and they’re like, “Yep, this right here. This is like pure altruism designed to benefit the poorest people of the world by the USA, which as we all know it does not have any ulterior motives ever.”

• American Exception: USAID and the National Endowment for Anti-Democracy
• BreakThrough News: Truth About USAID Cuts: Trump Will Keep Regime Change Ops Going in Other Agencies
• Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich.

Seriously. These aren’t what c/AskLemmy is supposed to be for. It’s a supposed to be a clone of r/AskReddit.

Jeffrey Sachs four months ago: BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions

The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.

Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Kazan brought together 35 countries with more than half the world population that reject the U.S. bullying and that are not cowed by U.S. claims of hegemony.

You can’t fucking change time, John.

The US propaganda machine’s “Uyghur genocide” psyop has been debunked six ways to Sunday already.

• https://lemmy.ml/post/22764285/15126223
• https://lemmy.ml/post/22296023/14839342
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Whichever is more practical.

I can only hope this is an attempt at ashen-dry humor.

I don’t think federation vs centralization is the primary differentiator. I think corporate vs non-profit/ad-free/donation-only/volunteerism is. Our marketing budget is goose egg. It’s all word-of-mouth.

It was .world that defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad and not the other way around, but the effect is the same.

• 2023-08-02: Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement
• 2023-11-12: Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml

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A (de-)federation research tool: https://defed.xyz/

Why don’t you go back to the Reddit echo chamber of corpo-imperialist propaganda?

As true in 2025 as it was in 2015: Noam Chomsky: The United States, Not Iran, Poses Greatest Threat to World Peace

You understand the difference between actually using a word and referring to said word’s past usage by others, right?

What is a psyop? What is the “it” in question here?

This sounds like a question for the lemm.ee admins, not one for !asklemmy@lemmy.ml.

Leaving Firefox and its derivatives is mostly out of the frying pan and into the fire. Proprietary browsers are worse, and Chrome and its derivatives are worse, thanks to Manifest V3.

That leaves Firefox/Gecko derivatives, like LibreWolf, and possibly some Safari/WebKit derivatives like GNOME Web.

“Liberal” has a clearly-defined meaning, and 95+% of people of the imperial core are liberals, because it is the hegemonic ideology of the imperial core.

The first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism:

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.

From the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property^[1]:

Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

That’s what liberals believe. Liberals are those who support capitalism.

Meanwhile, “tankie” is just a floating signifier. It’s just a pejorative and a thought-terminating cliché to dismiss people to the left of liberalism.

well I recommend you learn about the Chinese civil war, that will clear up your misunderstandings

no u. You look it up. Stop pretending to be an erudite student of history when you’ve already made a clown of yourself. You don’t even have a Wikipedia-level understanding of these things.

So you can acknowledge Russia is imperialist so you must know my original post was correct

Not every invasion is an imperialist invasion. I will give you this though: If Russia could be imperialist, it would be. But since it presently can’t be, it presently isn’t[1].

Look at Occupied China

🤡 Occupied by whom, other than the Chinese people themselves? You know that Chiang Kai-shek was a fascist who the peasantry chased off the mainland and exiled to an island, right? The only reason they didn’t Luigi him is the US intervened, to protect a fascist.

they added Tibet

I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves, suffering depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile.

In recent history they added HK

Because the UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate Hong Kong ended, yes. A lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion.

If you think Ukraine is the aggressor in this then how much ground combat has happened in Russia? I’m sure your unbiased/non-western sources are full of battles taking place around Moscow and Saint Petersburg

I don’t know where you’re going with this straw man. No one claiming that Russia didn’t invade Ukraine.