• beltsin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    First off, I appreciate the proper response. I don’t want to generalise too much but a lot of the replies I’ve received are very similar to the propaganda of a certain world government. I’ve had enough fun here so this will probably be my last comment. To quickly address Eastern Europe: I would suggest a read on the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 is to me one of the most interesting years of the later 20th century given that the Suez incident occurred at the same time (I’m Irish so the incompetence of Britain is slightly amusing to me). To use the revolution as an example, the revolutionaries had notable success in establishing a new democratic and socialist government, without any international backing. A significant issue they saw with the Hungarian Communist Party was to how it was largely subject to the geopolitical aims of the Soviet Union, to the detriment of the Hungarian people. Their revolutionary success was ended by a Soviet military intervention- which may be reminding you of some American antics. Czechia/Slovakia is another country where Soviet and Warsaw Pact subjugation prevented a democratic revolution. Now maybe you’ll have an argument for why such an intervention was actually necessary, which is fine- although I would ask to please not call the revolutionaries Nazis, as I have seen some on Hexbear do so and it’s simply not true. I’ll agree with you on the dangerous economic domination of the US. Although it’s not as bad as 100 years ago, the Americans have altogether too much economic control and their use of debt as a leveraging tool is reprehensible, and most likely a significant reason why so many non-western/third world countries have struggled to escape totalitarianism. But we can’t blame every problem on them, and I don’t think it’s fair to argue that countries aren’t victims of imperialism just because it wasn’t at the hands of Americans. Besides, the Soviets are a poor example of a successful socialist state given the development of the Nomenklatura and other such systems that are essentially direct parallels to the typical western systems that I think we can both agree are in need of change.

    • s0ngs0ng [des/pair, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “The americans have altogether too much economic control and their use of debt as a leveraging tool is reprehensible, and most likely a significant reason why so many non-western/third world countries have struggled to escape totalitarianism”

      “Muh those dumb ppl from the 3rd world doesn’t know how to make politics only muh totalitarianism because they dumb unlike us in the walled garden”

      And also

      ‘’(I’m Irish"

      eu-cool

      Fuck you gringo.