MemesAreTheory

joined 5 years ago
 

Checkmate big Pharma, I'm a poster-pilled serotonin factory now. I've seized the memes of endorphin production and liberated myself from Capitalism. Posting is praxis and I'll cry if anyone tells me otherwise, so you better not! You'd hate it. I'm a real ugly cryer.

 
[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Just bog standard racism/yellow peril

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This thread is fucking littered with comrades begging you to read, but you just sit there and say "doesn't look like anything to me" like it's Westworld or some shit and then keep on bashing us. It's amazing, truly.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

We don't outright dismiss them you dip. We engage with your sources and show why they're unreliable or non-factual. You're the one handwaving sources away and refusing to engage any further. Talk about a bubble around you.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My guy read your own fucking source. Your UN paper doesn't even conclude that China is engaging in Genocide.

I'll add to this - the Holocaust museum features prominently the testimony and picture of Rushan Abbas. She has a long history of activism in China (the details of which are important but we have more immediate concerns), and that lead to a career with... Radio Free Asia... Oh look, there we have another CIA/State Department mouthpiece.

I will further critique the source and echo another commenter saying that they don't have a single link. That page tells a story, but it does not provide any direct sources other than testimony from activists with demonstrable links to RFA.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Quick question: did you know about any of this before today? Did you know about the Maidan Coup? Did you know about the nearly 15,000 casualties, including over 3000 civilian casualties, in Luhansk/Donbas between 2014 and 2022? Were you aware of the extensive reporting by western sources on far right elements in Ukraine committing crimes against humanity?

If any of that was news to you, do you think it's ever appropriate to pause and reassess your position? Or are you just going to double, triple, and quadruple down on your fairy-tale understanding of the world with smug quips that don't address anything of substance? smuglord

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lmao imagining this nerd immediately being ventilated because "the soldiers feared for their life."

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Okay, then vet the sources big guy.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Great, so you admit that all you have are the sources previously provided and the inherent flaws they contain zenz We're operating from a point of agreement, then! We do not have strong evidence for the claims being made.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stupid tankies asking for sources. That's basically thought police - aren't you bozos supposed to hate the police? Hahahaha gottem.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

What no theory does to a mf.

No, this isn't trickle down economics. It's called superprofit/super exploitation, a marxist concept. The West™ in general, but a few powers specifically (subject of our discussion here, the USA in particular) have enforced extremely brutal oppression in the global South. This has kept the global South from developing competitive or even self-sufficient industry and reliant on imports. This gives American firms a massively unfair advantage, one which is used to placate the American working class so they don't develop solidarity with the global South. Throw in some bog standard racism and you've got a stable empire of misery. It's classic divide and conquer tactics, same used to pit managers/white collar workers and more blue collar or service workers against each other. Let some people feel superior to others, and they'll be so busy looking down they won't mind the boot on their back standing above them.

There's a rich body of theory here (which you are plainly ignorant of) but I would recommend reading about the phenomenon of unequal exchange by Jason Hickel

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

It's a good starting place for understanding how wealth is extracted from the south for the north.

Unfortunately for all of us, Capitalism has a long-term rate of profit problem. Even with super exploitation profit falls in the long run. To maintain their power and the rate of profit the capitalists begin ripping out and further oppressing the once (relatively) privileged working class of the north too. That's why social safety nets are being torn to shreds and constantly under attack, and gains in quality of life/life expectancy have either stalled or regressed in so called "rich" countries.

We say "workers of the world unite" for a reason. It's a global struggle.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh, nice whattaboutism. Didn't say shit about Russia dumbass. What the fuck does that have to do with a conversation about the US engaging in direct imperialism during the 20th century? You sick fucks are obsessed with Russia, it's kind of cute. Like you've got a crush or something.

My guy I'm just talking about well recorded history here. Go Google operation Condor, or if you're really feeling adventurous, literally any history book about Latin America. US violence and meddling is a core part of what gave the country a deeply unfair advantage. There was only dramatic reduction in poverty and a "growing middle class" because we were actively preventing that from developing abroad. Pretending foreign policy and domestic issues are separate realms is completely juvenile. Look at OPEC for the easiest example in the world.

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