[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago

This Indian says he can fuck right off.

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One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

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I found this wonderful post from the white house THREE DAYS AGO in my (very late) daily history post about the NSA.

“I found that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I expanded the national emergency to address these threats.”

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This is a great editorial I came across today about the history of the UN declaration that Zionism is a form of racism. It's a bit on the old side, but still very relevant today.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 11 months ago

This made me curious if the CIA ever accidentally did that, and I did some looking around. I couldn't find one.

Far right politicians are usually big fans of the US for some reason, which makes the US not want to remove them. I wonder why that is?

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 80 points 11 months ago

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 124 points 11 months ago

Not from hexbear, but no, of course they don't. I would wager that you would have a very hard time finding anyone on hexbear or lemmygrad that has anything but contempt for all US presidents. A bunch of monsters, the lot of them.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 119 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was the NATO puppet West Germany, who reimprisoned 100,000 gay holocaust survivors. Not the Soviet Union.

EDIT: Yes, I like history: !daily_us_history@lemmygrad.ml

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 1 year ago

Because even though they can't find any evidence of right wing ideology on this instance, they know it's here. Any REAL leftist would support the USA and NATO no matter what. And since rightwingers and tankies hate LGBT people, that must make the pronouns a mockery. It's sarcasm on top of sarcasm.

It only makes sense if you start with the conclusion and work backwards.

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When I try to browse it from lemmygrad, the newest post is a 10 month old post. But when I view on hexbear, it has recent posts. Is this a bug or intentional?

EDIT: If this is the wrong place to ask, could someone please direct me to the appropriate place?

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Yesterday in the Tienanmen Square post, someone mentioned to me that US atrocities are taught and remembered by the US population. In light of that, I thought it would be fun to do a series of This Day in History posts with a brief blurb on whatever vile thing that the US did on that day in the style of western reporting on China. I would like to continue these until I get bored/busy/hungover (as Karl would do), or the US somehow fails to do something awful on any particular day.

Today is the anniversary of the Los Angeles Rebellion (also known as the Watt's Riot) which happened from August 11 - 16, 1965. A brutal traffic stop of an unarmed young black man sparked thousands in the black community to rise against the oppressive racist regime. 14000 soldiers were called in to squash the fledgling rebellion, and after 6 days of urban guerrilla warfare, the fledgling rebellion was crushed. Government propaganda framed the issue as a riot, and little was changed. However, the black population continues to fight for equality against the authoritarian government to this day.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 74 points 1 year ago

Nobody is denying bloodshed. There absolutely were violent protests outside the square. The claim in question is that the military gunned down thousands of peaceful protesters in the square, which so far as I know is a claim that's exclusively made by people who were not there.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To deny the events that unfolded at Tiananmen Square is like denying that humans have been to the moon. It’s an unfounded, in fact, disprovable conspiracy theory.

So prove it to us then. All you're doing right now is scolding us for being insane conspiracy theorists. I've never seen any evidence that anything happened at tiananmen square. Reports from people who were actually there all say that there was no massacre

The US has a very long history of lying about its enemies. There are plenty of declassified CIA docs that talk about what lies to tell the media. Why is this one different?

Edit: also, see pen names. Isn't it a little hypocritical to call us conspiracy theorists when you come to the conclusion that the book was lies written by China or North Korea because you can't find any information about the author?

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 74 points 1 year ago

CBS news had a reporter in the square at the time. You should read what he said

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 72 points 1 year ago

I think what bothered me the most about him (even more than the genocide apologia), was the absolutely unshakeable smug American exceptionalism. He was certain that the world couldn't do anything without the US, and we should all just be grateful for what we have.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 1 year ago

Your country commited ethnic cleansing on my people, and you gloss over it like this while preaching about humanitarianism? Fuck you.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Their own.
  2. Norway.
  3. The US.

EDIT: Yeah, you're right. It is obvious.

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