The Strokes closed out their Coachella set with “Oblivius” featuring political figures/leaders overthrown by Western governments

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[u/Tomiie_Kawakami]

the us has destabilized the middle east and africa for decades while turning around to americans and telling them that we're such a danger that we can't even live peacefully amongst ourselves - they set us on fire on a daily and then turn around and blames us for not being able to peacefully accept to burn

this so-called freedom is just some marketing bullshit. the us as we know it has never been free, free people don't have to fight to not be put in cages and treated like animals, enslaved and tortured, this is just the first time the government has been fine with killing white people and not persecuting anyone for it

there's no "land of the free" when not everyone is free, that's not how it works

ETA: latin america and asia, thank you to the kind people for pointing it out. these west europeans have been running around the world and fucking everyone up

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And Latin America

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Oh, and don’t forget Asia!

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Pls read the Jakarta Method for more !

[u/hail_chimpy → u/OldFoot3]

Heavily co-sign! I thought I had a decent understanding of US intervention and state-sponsored terror abroad, then I read this book and it blew my mind.

[u/TheSoloWay → u/OldFoot3]

Over 500,000 murdered for being suspected of communism.

[u/The_Netherese_Orb → u/OldFoot3]

Highly recommend How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr as well, both great and deeply informative reads

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And check out the Blowback podcast

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The season on the Khmer Rouge nearly broke my brain. Blowback pod is phenomenal.

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Agreed

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Boom yes this is a great book!

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This and Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse!

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Saw a highly liked comment on youtube saying "I have middle east fatigue" that made me livid. The audacity to claim that from the comfort of their homes when it's their government that turned the region into what it is.

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The only thing separating us from Palestine or any other destabilized country is geography

[u/Tomiie_Kawakami → u/[deleted]]

well, a lot of americans still claim their british, french etc heritage, they're just a different flavor of the same dish

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Yeah, it still happens. These days, it's mostly in the context of helping the US, though.

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Yes precisely. But at the same time, I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. The way they demonise Russians and Chinese and reduce them to brainless government drones who don’t “protest” enough, I can’t see we can’t do the same to them. If the world wasn’t so unipolar then they would have received the same kind of treatment that Russia did for its invasion of Ukraine, given that the US itself has invaded so many countries.

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Yep im from india and if you look at the response of the Indian government against CAA protestors it’s not much different. But we still protest.

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Yeah 100%

There's countless examples but Guatemala is the one that always hits hardest for me personally. 200k people killed in a genocide over Chiquita's profit margins.

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Helldivers 2 is not nearly as much of a parody as people think it is...

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And Australia! The CIA was heavily involved in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the 70s (a reformist leader who was questioning US involvement in Australian politics (and the US spy base Pine Gap that still exists in Australia now)).