“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made… And they won’t even admit the knife is there.”
hey have you watched “the man in the high castle” it’s about alternative universe in which the nazis won, can you imagine if that happened, can you imagine if they just took over an entire continent and murdered almost everyone on it and installed a fascist christian ethnostate and went about playing world police for 80 years, that would be real fucked up
My favorite part about the book is that there’s an alt-alt-history novel the characters will sometimes read, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy where instead the Allies win the alt-history version of WW2. In the alt-alt-history, after the Allies win they basically do a positive imperialism where they conquer Africa and China, somehow eliminate poverty, spread the New Deal worldwide, then the US and UK get into a cold war that the UK wins.
I took it to mean that PKD thought even in a liberal’s wildest imagination, even when under the direct threat of fascism, they’d write a book about how they almost win and then lose.
Thanks for finally saying it, everything that every country ever does is Imperialism! Context? Who cares! The main thing is that since everyone is doing imperialism, everyone is bad. But “we” are doing it less badly than them, which makes them worse, so lets talk about “them” more than ourselves, I think thats fair!
of course, lebensraum drew straight from manifest destiny, USA and its lapdogs have yet to answer for their crimes
Yet to answer for, yet to pay restitution, yet to even truly liberate us even
– Malcolm X, 1964
Almost 60 years and ain’t shit changed
hey have you watched “the man in the high castle” it’s about alternative universe in which the nazis won, can you imagine if that happened, can you imagine if they just took over an entire continent and murdered almost everyone on it and installed a fascist christian ethnostate and went about playing world police for 80 years, that would be real fucked up
My favorite part about the book is that there’s an alt-alt-history novel the characters will sometimes read, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy where instead the Allies win the alt-history version of WW2. In the alt-alt-history, after the Allies win they basically do a positive imperialism where they conquer Africa and China, somehow eliminate poverty, spread the New Deal worldwide, then the US and UK get into a cold war that the UK wins.
I took it to mean that PKD thought even in a liberal’s wildest imagination, even when under the direct threat of fascism, they’d write a book about how they almost win and then lose.
oh shit they went and made the amazon show into a book
I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.
no but I’ve watched Harry Potter. Expelliarmus! Crypto Patronym! Terra Nullius!
then you’ll love my fanfic, harry potter and the lost cause
“And the wizarding world will rise again!”
It is not OK when the United States of America commits imperialist expansion and genocide.
Therefore, it is OK when other countries commit imperialist expansion and genocide.
This is sarcasm.
I have to specify because there are actually dipshits dumb enough to unironically believe this utter fucking bullshit around here.
I agree 100% with this comment
I can’t believe people here support the genocide and imperialism Ukraine is doing to the people in the Donbass just because it isn’t America
Thanks for finally saying it, everything that every country ever does is Imperialism! Context? Who cares! The main thing is that since everyone is doing imperialism, everyone is bad. But “we” are doing it less badly than them, which makes them worse, so lets talk about “them” more than ourselves, I think thats fair!
This is sarcasm.
wuhboudism
i am literally criticizing whataboutism.
every time someone says “russia shouldn’t be doing that” the response is “bUh wUdDaBoUt UsA”
Russia shouldn’t be doing what? Protecting russians from nazis? Пшел нахуй либерал
The point is, if you are against imperialism, then:
Libs neither understand what imperialism is, nor do they condemn it when the West does it.
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