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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

GLA-Dont-Mind-If-I-Do

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

de-conceptualization [Easy: Success] — Any poster who willingly chooses to have a Picrew avatar has already demonstrated that they aren't worth listening to.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The Vaush Particles have reached such a critical mass that everything is exploding and I'm being teleported around the universe like the beginning of Half Life.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We need a Half-Life mod where Freeman and his crowbar are replaced by a clown with a funny hammer. funny-clown-hammer

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is literally the timeline where the US backed "christian democrats". Those motherfuckers are far right too

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

and christian democrats are evil!

social democrats are controlled opposition liberals but they aren't ideologically against basic human rights for minorities

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Product of the US school system.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are allegations that the CIA funded Castro in the lead up to the revolution, although obviously the CIA is silent on this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

That was probably just a case of both-sides

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I'm going to fucking scream

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Imagine thinking they ever did anything remotely close to that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

NED and other "civil society organizations": side-eye-1 side-eye-2

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

The CIA did fund the Finnish succdems, but that was when the USSR was still around, so now you're SOL.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf I don't find this prospect unthinkable since some far-right parties in europe aren't quite as aligned with american strategy as others.

For example Le Pen (who is almost certainly winning in 2028), the german AfD and Orban have dissented, in different measures, to the establishment's position on ukraine and china. If a far-right party were to reach power in one of the big EU countries and they were expected to shift europe away from the US I don't see why the americans WOULDN'T interfere.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it’s the other way around. Michael Hudson said back in the 1970s the people from the State Department already told him that they knew the challenge to US establishment in the future would come from the European left, not the right, so they spent decades infiltrating every soc dem and leftist party and promoted US-leaning politicians groomed under their wing.

They were never worried about the far right, nor should they be, because the European far right will never pose a real challenge to the US or capital. If you really want proof, look at Meloni’s Italy.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Does he know emoji

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Do they mean dudes like Pol Pot?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blue wave = I am Charlie Brown and I will always run as fast as I can at that football even though Lucy always makes me look like a fool

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

blue waves

Spoiler: the blue waves are bombs clearing away the poors standing over resources. sus-torment

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

What an ignorant ass take fuck

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess which anarcho-NATOist streamerbro endorsed this tweet.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I feel like there's an implied "but" after "countries"

That might just be me giving it a generous interpretation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What in the name of the Brimstone Scented One is a Christdem?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Christian Democrats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_democratic_parties

European center-right parties, the US really liked backing them as the "palatable" anti-communist parties post-WWII.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks; sounds like they've already got all the Langleybucks they can handle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They probably do. They’re also, unsurprisingly, very socially conservative, I think they’re usually equivalent to like tories, Australian labour or Canadian conservative. It varies by country though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Mujahideen were simple country anti-imperialists

Suharto's guys were just fighting bolshevik witches

Jacobo Arbenz was stopping the Chiquita lady from doing her job

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