perfect irony that the incel manifesto is written by a woman. lol

faces-of-death if you grew up in the 70’s & 80’s

they used to show that shit in school as a warning lessons. lol

that’s because the foreign influence is at the heart of almost all of the issues that mexico is facing rn.

the institutions would be so weak for american capitalism didn’t force them to be and the cartles wouldn’t be so powerful if the cia/atf did help them so much.

you should also consider that one of those biggest problems – the cartels – would not be so successful if it weren’t for american intervention; either through training from the school of americas (i forget what it’s new name is now) or by literally giving them weaponry like they did the “fast and furious” program a few years ago or the iran contra much longer ago.

they didn’t grow to become powerful on their own and they continue to get support that the world won’t know about until the freedom of information act applies 25 years from now.

i troubles me when the mexican genz influencers on social media speak as neutrally as possible when talking about either morena or pan/pri/moviemento.

i get that they’re not trying to offend (and most of them say exactly this) but i wish they would adopt a more honest/genuine take like their mexican-american cousins do because they make their biases clear, where it’s easy to mistake the biases of the mexicans.

i love british scifi, comedy, literature, and the lofty aspirations of og liberal thinkers from centuries past.

i think it’s a result of growing up inside the anglosphere.

no one is immune to propaganda and both goebbels and bernays have demonstrated to the world how effectively critical thinking can be shaped through controlled narratives.

china exhibits draconian measures to issues like tiananmen because it was a genuine protest and DEEPLY inconvenient for the chinese government. it was only one of many protests that caused civil unrest throughout the entire country (ie it was much bigger than just tiananmen square) and they really don’t want a repeat of that violence.

in typical western fashion, the legacy media latched onto a kernel of truth and shaped the narrative of that a fledgling neoliberal democracy movement when the truth was that the protesters that pushed for such a thing were an overwhelmingly small minority when you consider the huge number of protestors taking to the streets during that time throughout the entire country.

china doesn’t have oligarchic ruling class solidarity like the united states or the rest of west does so it’s silencing of dissent is much more blunt and direct through government apparatuses where the western oligarchies prefers to employ significantly more subtle and easier to hide dissent silencing like deplatforming and sanctions against individuals like francesca albanese or 9 of the icc judges.

that magat characterization makes sense if you were aware that magats perceive the world through intentional misinformation that’s perpetually reinforced in the west by the likes of fox news (for red maga) and the likes of the state department (for blue maga).

also any conspiracy theory is not necessary when the accusations have been confirmed multiple times during congressional hearings by the likes of the state state department and it’s ngo’s when they publicly admitted (on the record btw) that they intentionally peddled propaganda to the public.

your centuries old examples of us-uk belligerence feels cherry picked when better examples like the suez canal incident makes it clear who’s calling the shots.

the us hegemony takes the cake when it comes to journalism when you consider that its proxy in the middle east alone has literally bombed to death more journalists that china could ever fantasize about and the likes of julian assange, francesca albanese, or any of the 9 icc judges can attest how much impactful sanctions are than government minders.

the only fault lies with the american government and the people who believe what they say when the american government has publicly admitted themselves that they’ve intentional misinformed the public; this fact alone make red maga less culpable for the world’s woes than the liberals.

ever heard of the “special relationship” between the two countries that enable them to work together in arenas like this one and usaid literally funded several foreign “media” agencies like the guardian before trump shuttered it.

the difference is that sources defining the tiananmen protests as a massacre are funded by the state department (both directly and undirectly) which has a long, storied and undisputed history of peddling propaganda; including my government’s own public admissions of doing so.

i’m an anglophile and dispelling the western propaganda about tianamen square is only a 30 second google search away; but your comment makes it look like you’ve never bothered.

that’s only mostly true. lol

i guess so. lol

the un vote is definitely damning and it’s anemic support for people in the global north’s periphery is concerning, but it doesn’t yet make for a imperialist-friendly pattern imo.

i could take guesses, but it’s better that you ask them yourself and you can do so through the link i shared.

entrenchment of the working class to support the capitalist class, against their own working class interests. They keep selling us the pipe dream but the few rewarding hits keep us coming back for more.

i think that the scope of the entrenchment is bigger than the working class and its exemplified by how even rational and/or rich people believe in it.

it’s one of those things were everyone knows is wrong; but we go along with it anyways because that’s “how the system works”

Ukraine was not “like Iraq or Afghanistan”. Ukrainians were “civilised”, they were “European”, they “watch Netflix and have Instagram”, they looked like “us”.

There we had it. It was out in the open. This was how western journalists, whether they would admit it or not, viewed the world. That racism, often hidden, informed which stories got covered and which ones got ignored.

a majority of my family members are white passing and they used to share with me the racists things people would say to them when they assumed that they were white like them and the most troubling things that they shared were how commonly those beliefs were shared.

i remember it from time to time and more show now that they’ve gone into the maga fold themselves.

but the ceo’s will get off scott free and leave their underlings to be hanged. lol

verifiable american propaganda is a very difficult pill for westerners to swallow; so most, like you, don’t bother.