I think I made my point?

And now that the war is failing, and the hunt is on for scapegoats, corruption allegations will fly.

Ukraine was famously corrupt before this war, before the Maidan coup, and before the Yanukovych administration.

And now that the war is failing, and the hunt is on for scapegoats, corruption allegations will fly.

Not trying to start an argument, just trying to make a point because I’ve been seeing “Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney” around a lot lately.

That would be because Biden and Harris aided and abetted a genocide for the last 15 months.

Chinese people, for one https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

Which makes sense as their quality of life has been improving over recent decades while ours has been deteriorating.

Somebody forgot literally every president of that settler-colonial, imperialist, slaver country.

Not the whole world, but definitely the neoliberalized imperial core and its neocolonized vassal states.

This isn’t a case of viral, grassroots bad mood/fascist vibes. It’s the predictable result of grinding, late-stage/finance/monopoly capitalism, of zombie neoliberalism. Even the incorrigibly liberal Chris Hedges saw this coming fifteen years ago in his book, The Death of the Liberal Class.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci

Well now I’m wondering who this could fool and how…

Tell me how that wasn’t frustrating & exhausting work 🎖️

This is some Josep Borell-level Western chauvinism, which is rich considering the support Europe has just given to an actual genocide.

Me, five months ago:

If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

If Harris is the harm reduction candidate, who for?

Speaking of delusional: didn’t do enough to prevent genocide? Biden actively participated in genocide throughout.

MySQL wouldn’t win any single event, but would get high scores all around for unknown reasons.

Oracle’s PR machine & dark money.

This text has the same LLM slop formulation as two days ago when you made China out to not be socialist 🥱

I don’t know what you mean by that—blackmailed? Many oligarchs genuinely like fascism, because fascism serves their interests. There’s no reason to doubt that the richest person in the world might financially support fascism in order to suppress labor and slash regulations & taxes. Every fascist movement has been funded & organized by capitalists; they’re not grassroots movements.

Those hypotheticals are all well and good.

But you have to understand the scale of things and the history of things. Just as the US military-industrial complex dwarfs those of all other states, so does the US propaganda-intelligence complex. The Russiagate narrative itself was a psyop to manufacture our consent to censorship.

And the US passed a bill in 2024 dedicating US$1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) to “countering Chinese propaganda” over the next five years.

The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.

It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.

I promise you Musk is no fool and knew exactly what he was doing: signaling to other fascist that the thing they were told to “stand back and stand by” for has finally arrived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

OP basically did ask “why do people in Nordic countries care more what happens to their citizens?”

No they didn’t. You read way to much into what was actually asked.

If only