Heart attack gunned and Havana Syndrome’d
WildWeezing420
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This is the role of social democracy
Real Victorian trad girls would be locked inside on laudanum tearing at the wallpaper
What fucking dogs of empire. Do they have no shame?
It’s not CIA you freaking tankies, other countries have their own agency you know. You are so America-centric. This isn’t a “color revolution” stop spouting your conspiracy theories. Allende is a dictator. I know this because the news told me this when I first heard about him this week.
Do not trust America, O Muslims
Banger
If you are going to get arrested regardless, might as well honor Pal Action by following in their example of radical direct action instead.
Truly. 21-27 million soviets killed in WW2. Casualties would be 186.2 million, the entire population of the USSR for having to live through the Nazi invasion
To be fair, Islamic dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, ISIS, etc. legitimately do approach this caricature. They are extremely repressive and reactionary in regards to women's rights, among other things. The chauvinism comes in when Westerners believe all Islamic nations are just as repressive and reactionary as their allies are. It's a sort of self-soothing and coping projection mechanism for them to justify to themselves why they are allied to these fucked up nations and factions (that they helped create).
Their logic goes: Yes, it's not ideal that we have to ally ourself with these extremist reactionary islamists. But we must do it because they help combat Iran, who are equally evil - if not moreso because they oppose American and imperialist interests and want a nuke. So really, my getting in bed with the reactionaries is a wash because it's done to oppose even greater reactionaries.
That's why they must believe Iran is the caricature. Because doing otherwise would collapse their entire imperialist coalition and internal "logic". They need Iran to be reactionary and evil to cancel out their own side's evil, otherwise there's no way they could continue believing they are the "good guy". The role it plays for Western leftist chauvinists is similar, it allows them to fence-straddle instead of taking a principled revolutionary defeatist position against their own government and its proxies.
Supporting almost 50 revolutions worldwide. China supported Korea, Cambodia (cringe) and Vietnam* during Mao's time, but since then they have not aided anyone else in any serious capacity.
*some exceptions apply
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Grayscale can also work when in doubt