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I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone's basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

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[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

This. I always side eye people when they rag on Japan for not being publicly repentant about WW2 atrocities. I never hear Europeans tip toe and apologetic about Africa and especially not Asia. Americans are verbally repentant about slavery but not Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, ... Native Americans are mostly ignored and native Hispanic may as well not exist. Afghanistan and Iraq are referred to mostly as a waste of time and money rather than as terrible atrocities committed by us. Zero concern or feelings of responsibility for latin American imperialism by the US. Presumption of practically any immigration Muslim men of being problematic but little to no concern for the imperialism of their homelands that made them want to leave

I get annoyed at leftist meetings where people get annoyed at immigrants and their children for being successful because they must have come from money for their family to immigratr to the anglosphere or Europe. What money are modern people thinking people from Afghanistan came here with. The families from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia that came in the 70s-80s. China didn't really become wealthy until the last couple decades and most Chinese people in the US are from before the 90s. Insane poverty back then. Very interesting times in the west these days. Conservatives are crazy but leftist are starting to get a bit xenophobic and ignorantly presumptuous and blaming of immigrants in my opinion too. I'll add that I don't hear resentment about immigrants being successful from the former Yugoslavian states from back during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are those people actually leftists? Because they sound like liberals, not socialists.

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not truly leftist but in times of frustration people look for a group to feel acknowledged so even if they're not an ideologue, they'll comingle and the not true leftist, opportunistic "leftist", outnumber the ideological leftist. Has to be watched out for in caution of them hijacking organizations to drum up a populist anti-immigrants/racist movement that adopts some leftist terminology for marketing.

Corporate/imperialist Republicans courted evangelicals for votes but didn't want to enact policy of evangelicals until evangelicals took over enough of the party positions. That's a caution for socialist commingling with labor activist that are really just about their paycheck rather than being about labor. I'm all about labor unions but I know labor unions are filled with people happy to pull up ladders and scapegoat out groups

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

"To any Westerners losing sleep over the situation in Ukraine: Just pretend it's happening in Africa." —Sergei Lavrov (paraphrasing)