While I think there is a huge honegrown issue, the foreign influence is another gigantic problem that can’t be ignored and it was just 100% proven.
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theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I hate this shit the problems with America and its oppression isn’t primarily due to scary “foreigners” its homegrown and refusing to confront it as such makes it impossible to destroy and feeds into warmongering and xenophobia.
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It is possible to care about multiple things at a time
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Issues like this are systemic and need to be looked at in at a macro as opposed to a micro way.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Foreigners are just the “others” used by the elites to point the tribalist weak minded morons towards somebody else whilst the very much local elites pillage the place.
And this is not just done to the MAGA muppets: notice the whole bitching and moaning about “foreign interference” from the rest - guess what, the influence of the likes of Russia and even China have in countries like the US is fucking nothing next to that of the local traditional fatcats owning the Press and Tech-bros owning social media or even in relative terms that cultivated by the kind of Propaganda ops we see in action here in the most popular Lemmy.world forums.
Fuck, if you want to worry about Foreign Actors, look at how Israel got most of the West, especially the US, to basically destroy in non-aligned countries at least half a fucking century of cultivate image of being Rule Of Law abiding and Freedom Promoting, which amongst other things resulted in some of those now turning towards Russia or China - all this shit to protected the fucking modern day Nazis whilst they get off from murdering little brow children.
The supposed Leftwing of the US (but not really: in World terms the Democrats are a hard Right party, just ultra Capitalist Neolibs rather than Fascists) are just as much doing the whole “it’s those scary foreigners” smoke and mirrors show to turn the mob eyes away from their sponsors as the Fascists, it’s just that in their propaganda the cartoonish bad guys are “state actors” rather than “immigrants”.
And all the fucking shit in the US (not just the propaganda but its use to distract the crowd from the pillaging by the likes of the Finance Industry, “realestate investors” and other parasites) is leaking to the rest of the World and accelerating the shitstorm elsewhere.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if a weed helps an invasive but native species grow, whose fault is it?
it’s the rich assholes fault that keep telling us that it’s the grass’ fault for growing that caused the invasive species to spread.
who planted the weeds? the rich.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You missed the point. Twitter just revealed that many of the deranged MAGA influencers are from outside the US.
The main issue with MAGA is actually foreigners! Suprise surprise. That is what the meme is making fun of.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes, US hasn’t got a monopoly in propaganda and internet narrative manipulation. And this was in 2013.
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