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The American Empire (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.

Americans: "Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we're a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don't care about French elections, why would they care about American?"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Nobody in America thinks this fyi. We know exactly why the world cares and it's because we are the world's only super power.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dear Earth,

The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.

Zero fucks about climate change.

Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.

I apologize.

I wish y'all the best.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

about to

🧐

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Inauguration ain't till January

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

Some things don’t change from administration to another, such as:

U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter

And Democratic politicians are just as capable of war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Cool.

I'm sure there will be no difference in the US's impact on and relations with the rest of the world once Trump realizes over for Biden.

I'm glad it'll be the same, because I was thinking it'd get worse.

Silly me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

During Clinton’s administration 500,000 Iraqi children were killed through sanctions and Albright on 60 Minutes said it was worth it.

Now during Biden we have a genocide with over 50,000 dead.

The US foreign policy has been terrible even under Democrats. Liberals only care when the president is a Republican.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Brain dead take of the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yikes, that's a pretty strong aversion to reality.

Unfortunately, leaving a salty comment doesn't make the truth go away. The democrats have literally been facilitating a genocide for the past year. They suck. They can be "not the absolute worst possibility" and still be very very shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Oh yes of course the terrible awful genocide campaign of mass starvation and indiscriminate bombing of the entire place except 99% of Gaza is still alive after more than a year.

Sounds hysterical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We were never good, we've just excavated a whole new bottom to hit. It's almost impressive considering how much we've always sucked.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Americans: Why don't foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites

Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah the Aussie presence is in completely the wrong spots too. It's bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The US doesn't have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

take note canadians

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This site says there are 9. 3 Army, 3 Air Force, 3 Coast Guard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Certainly does. My father-in-law served up there, which he thought was a much better assignment than Vietnam. It was pretty important for early ICBM detection from Russia, since the shortest path to the continental US is through the arctic circle. Still is, so yes, there's bases up there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

and in hindsight, it turned out to have been much better than going to Vietnam

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

American exceptionalism is ingrained so deep in most people here that they would never even consider or doubt why the world pays attention to them, just: "Duh of course they do, because we're America!"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Correct. I think the entire premise that an American would question this idea is an indication that the meme was made by somebody from a country with one of these pins in it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this mindset. I am myself an American making this observation with a sense of shame and mild horror.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine if China had bases like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If you do a search for "are there secret chinese police stations in canada", would that count?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

Not to be a china apologist, but overt military presence in the form of missiles and boots on the ground is very different from clandestine operations abroad. Basically all major powers have the latter. What do you think the CIA is?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

If you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations, then yes, but imagine they have soldiers and illegal weapons and claim to be ensuring stability of the region

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Putin is gonna pee his pants in glee when his orange tool starts shutting them down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hegseth is as hawkish on Russia as he is on China. But I would be less worried as Putin than I would be as a draft-eligible American. We're only going to double down on wars with this new guy in charge and that manpower needs to come from somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

That boy has likely been away from service long enough not to know his head from his toes

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My first thought was to wonder if we'll try to buy Greenland again.

Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already...

Sorry, World. 😑

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

To be fair the red balloons shown are much less deadly than American military bases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Seems like they just hate industrious hard working war mongers. Can't a warlord catch a break?

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