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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

Examples of posts that are welcome

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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/51443

Two-thirds of Americans want action on climate change, but people vastly underestimate public support for climate solutions and policy. Historically, U.S. news outlets overrepresented views on climate change that went against scientific consensus. If news outlets are similarly overrepresenting opposition to climate policy, it could explain the discrepancy between public support and perception.


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Acclaimed, award-winning animation from 2025

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br to c/noyank@lemmy.ml
 
 

Someone got me inspired to make this list, and I decided to share it here, since it fits the community. I've added only movies that had a Wikipedia page:

And the list ends here because I couldn't think of anything else, but I'll try to add more to the list eventually.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sira_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440747/

The film depicts the story of young nomad named Sira, who after a brutal attack refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against terror. It is a co-production between Burkina Faso, Senegal, France and Germany.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/noyank@lemmy.ml
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JgURXn5aAE

https://imdb.com/title/tt32122656/ – A fisherman as he discovers a treasure lost for generations at the bottom of the ocean. Taking a small part of it home for himself.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4774626

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The total runtime is about two-and-a-half hours, split into two parts. There are two official YouTube uploads of the film — one which splits the two parts into different videos, and one which stitches them together into one video. I figure it's probably best to go for the two-video upload so we can stretch our legs and take a leak at the intermission.

Plot description from IMDb: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in 1980. A young musician (Bananan) falls for a mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves a 19th Century assassination plot.

I can also mention that this movie has a lot of musical numbers and experimental scenes, and is often looked at as a turning point for perestroika and rock music's position in Soviet popular culture.

Content warnings for I guess age gap romance, there's some very brief man ass in one scene, there's murder and other violence, "moderate profanity", and "mild alcohol, drugs & smoking".

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60779044

Two widely followed Chinese public figures — one an editor for a state media outlet, the other the son of a former party chief — released identical outlines on Tuesday of countermeasures Chinese authorities are said to be considering in response to Trump's tariffs.

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Hi. I am an animation fan looking for some animation that is not from the United States to watch. Preferably something from Europe or Asia (not Japan).

If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

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