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Cake day: November 20th, 2025
  • baller_w@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's going on with the lemmy world and ML infighting
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    4 days ago

    Still coming up to speed on the terminology here, but labels aside, I would hope we can all agree on the fact that society should work for the people first. A society that works for corporations and the rich first (I’d argue that most developed nations show advanced stages of this, regardless of capitalist alignment) will decay internally, like a cancer. I think we’ve seen the global decline of society working for their members since the mid 1900’s.

    This has resulted in a broad rightward swing in the US, and to a slightly lesser degree abroad. People feel like they’ve been taken advantage of. And they have been, but mostly by the very rich, and it’s getting exponentially worse by the day.

    Argue nuance if you feel so inclined. But my point is: the more that we’re divided by these labels is to our detriment. And when I say “we”, I mean “not the ownership class.”

    Do you work? Do you draft a paycheck anywhere on earth? Then you’re getting fucked, because those who don’t draft a paycheck to live basically don’t pay anything to partake in society. We pay for them. We truly live in a welfare state, but it’s not the poor that are the recipients but the rich.

    Tankie or not. Western or Eastern. We’re all manipulated into serving the will of the powerful, and constantly at odds with one another when our plight is similar. We all don’t want to get fucked. But the more we’re divided, the easier it is to conquer us.

    Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

  • baller_w@lemmy.ziptoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump Team’s Secret Meetings With Group Plotting to Break Up Canada ExposedEnglish
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    11 days ago

    We’ve done it before (violating sovereignty). Kind of a lot. Oh man…I hate this list. Looking at it all (AI generated) at once is a big oof. Several are joint operations.

    Year(s) – Aggressor – Victim – Colloquial name / shorthand

    • 1846–1848 – United States – Mexico – Mexican–American War
    • 1893 / 1898 – United States – Kingdom of Hawaii – Overthrow & Annexation of Hawaii
    • 1899–1902 – United States – Philippines – Philippine–American War
    • 1903 – United States – Colombia / Panama – Panama Secession (Canal Coup)
    • 1912–1933 – United States – Nicaragua – U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua
    • 1915–1934 – United States – Haiti – U.S. Occupation of Haiti
    • 1916–1924 – United States – Dominican Republic – U.S. Occupation of DR
    • 1953 – United States (CIA) – Iran – Operation Ajax
    • 1954 – United States (CIA) – Guatemala – Guatemalan Coup
    • 1958 – United States – Lebanon – Lebanon Crisis
    • 1960–1965 – United States (CIA) – Congo – Lumumba Assassination / Congo Crisis
    • 1961 – United States – Cuba – Bay of Pigs Invasion
    • 1964 – United States – Brazil – Brazilian Military Coup
    • 1965 – United States – Dominican Republic – Operation Power Pack
    • 1969–1973 – United States – Cambodia – Secret Bombing of Cambodia
    • 1960s–1970s – United States – Laos – Secret War in Laos
    • 1970–1973 – United States (CIA) – Chile – Chilean Coup
    • 1976 – United States – Argentina – Dirty War / Junta Support
    • 1979–1989 – United States – Afghanistan – Operation Cyclone
    • 1980s – United States – Nicaragua – Contra War
    • 1983 – United States – Grenada – Invasion of Grenada
    • 1989 – United States – Panama – Operation Just Cause
    • 2001–2021 – United States – Afghanistan – War in Afghanistan
    • 2003 – United States – Iraq – Iraq War
    • 2011 – United States / NATO – Libya – Libyan Intervention
    • 2011–present – United States – Syria – Syrian Civil War (U.S. Intervention)