memes

10437 readers

2690 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

[email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
[email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
[email protected] : Linux themed memes
[email protected] : for those who love comic stories.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1563

Every day. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

247 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a very naive observation which assumes that any atrocities commited in China or Africa are strictly the fault of the west...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if the CIA ever mingled with Chinese politics - I doubt it. But Africa, brah, we have a bad history of what the western world in general has done in that continent, whether directly or indirectly or proxies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a straw man, as I never argued that there were no western influences.

It's at best naive to think that only western influences led to atrocities, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I'm not saying, "only". For example, the only, "democracy" in the Middle East - Israel, apparently is funding the killing of Armenian Christians.

Sea wat I did thar?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What you did there is derail the conversation from the fact that you claimed that "The West" is the only source of misery.

You're a troll and I won't engage further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Technically, Western democracy. Pay attention to all the nations that are currently turning their backs on the U.S. and joining BRICS. Had the U.S., alone, not meddle with other nations, the U.S. wouldn't be losing the petrodollar at this moment and wouldn't be losing all the nations that have invested into the dollar. Now in the next 10 or so years... well, guess we'll have to see the turnout. I can't even speculate because it's over my head.