• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    How did the “democracy” prevent all the Cold War shit? Millions of murdered in Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Iraq… US warmongering is bipartisan and kills millions regardless

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      Also, one of the main reasons the Vietnam war ended was mass protests against it.

      The war had become extremely unpopular in the USA.

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      3 days ago

      Democracy in the digital age makes the atrocities of a country harder to hide from their domestic population than fascism, wouldn’t you agree?

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        I would agree depending on the control of media. People only woke up to the genocide in Palestine due to the widespread usage of a non-US-controlled social media: tiktok. As the US moves in its efforts to ban or purchase alternative media (also including ban of Russian media in the EU), they will possibly be able to control the narrative, yet to be seen. For now, all US citizens are convinced that Maduro is an unpopular criminal dictator and have no idea of the effect of US sanctions on Venezuelan economy and the desperate suffering that they’re causing, and are therefore primed to accept an invasion.