The meme isn't wrong but "westoid"? Only the terminally online could have dreamed up a term like that.
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You know I just realized, incels also call women "femoids"...
Westoid? Are you one of those Lemmings who sound like bots that randomly go on an irrational tirade against the entire West whenever 'Murica does some shit but you still blame it on everyone else?
I assume we also blame Chinese citizens for everything the CCP does too or does that only apply to western nations.
Does it even apply for all western nations? What about Norway?
When was the last time China invaded a country again? I’ll wait…
Less than half a decade ago with Hongkong...
Are our blindspots this wide?
Wow China invaded… themselves???
They took their city back from foreign imperialists. Get fucking real.
Foreign imperialists consisting of residents that want their freedom who already were independent from their prior occupiers?
This is one way to say you don't support freedom in a very literal anti democracy sense.
Hong Kong belongs to China. Not western imperialists. Their “freedom” can suck my nuts from the back.
You are quite literally ignoring the will of the people who lived there, who lived there before the prior take over too, being ruled by some third party they don't want to be ruled by.
How can you justify that?
lmao “ruled”. A city full of capitalists afraid their workers will be liberated with economic democracy. Boo fucking hoo.
it was the workers who were protesting for an independent city state. you are letting one imperial power convince you it's not an imperial power simply based on aesthetic. the idea that hong kong protestors on the ground were capital class is absurd. the people's republic of china is communist/socialist in name and aesthetic only. it is functionally a state with a select few who control the means of production and uses that power to maintain control. being a capitalist-imperial power in apparent opposition to another does not justify being a capitalist-imperial power. the people of the world will not be made free by the CCP's controlling power expanding their power. the people of the world will be made free by true solidarity amongst the workers in opposition to the three imperial powers of america, russia, and china
Not sure about "last time", but this is pretty famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_China
In recent years they have colonised more subtly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative#Accusations_of_neo-colonialism_and_debt-trap_diplomacy
plus all their bullshit around the nine dash line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands#Conflicts_in_the_21st_century
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Former Marine here. This illustrates the prevailing excuse endemic to the whole imperialist war machine. Every bloody cog has some way of passing blame up the chain. I fixed electronics so I never had to personally pull a trigger but the electronics I fixed helped fix aircraft whose pilots and aircrew were responsible for atrocities I can only imagine. I used to rationalize that this separation erased my culpability but now I understand it actually enhanced it. At the level of maintenance I was at a broken twidgit tip unaccounted for could ground an entire air wing for several days.
If you have made the massive mistake of joining the military please use your power of being a rusty cog. Report every chip on every tool to maintenance control, send every piece of gear missing a screw or emp braiding in for parts/DRMO don't run to the hardware store for a quick replacement, CDI time is valuable and limited so make sure to never skip a CDI verification step and ask for their opinion on every anomalous reading, if you drop a torque wrench or break a cal seal ground that gear and send it back to the shop, take your time and verify every measurement, don't gundeck MAFs, and follow all procedures to the letter. Don't be afraid to involve maintenance control to make sure your shop is fully compliant and not taking shortcuts. If you had just sat on your rack and refused to work you would just get replaced, now you have weaponized the regulations and bureaucracy in a way that covers your ass for the rest of your enlistment while crippling the whole air wing. You can now get out and try to make amends for the catastrophic damage you have done to the world. However if you reenlist fucking die in a fire.
I regret every day that I joined and wish I was aware of the evil the system I was a part of was perpetrating. The few times I talk about my time in the Marines in the last few years is to warn people about how fucked up it is, how they brainwash and strip the individuality from recruits, and most importantly the reality of what the US Military does to innocent people all over the world and the environment.
There is a reason that 18 is a prime recruiting age - not enough life knowledge to know better.
It's pure exploitation by the state of the ignorance and naivety of the average recruit as well as the capitalist system weaponizing its own failings. Most people in my boot camp platoon were under 20 and the vast majority of us came from disadvantaged backgrounds. I didn't know the term at the time but most people joined for the hope of class mobility along with getting the fuck out of wherever they came from. It also showed the strength of the US propaganda machine, especially in the immediate wake of 9/11, where the media was complicit in a massive coverup of US/ISAF atrocities and a whitewashing of the savage inhuman brutality that is implicit in war.
That does not excuse our ignorance since millions of people our age marched against the wars, especially Iraq. In retrospect we unconsciously chose cowardice and selfishness and cloaked it in a delusion of honorable sacrifice.
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You recognize what's going on and not brush it off, you didn't directly kill and rape people, so that puts you really on the good side.
Westoid? Average?... so like, millions if not billions of people, all believe this to be a just argument?
We both know this is where your argument falls apart but damn it must be cathartic to post it knowing some idiot "westoid" will try to prove their virtue to you.
The capitalist version of the Nuremberg excuse... "We all have a mortgage to pay"
Just following orders
Bam!
"Just doing my job."
Nuremberg o'clock yet?
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