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[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I despise annoying online dumbasses who really got no grounding just say gibberish at all times. These are either from burgerland or broader europe. They have no idea of about any history local or international.

Like how do you see some protests in Indonesia and be like this some CIA funded crap to overthrow X. No you dumbass that already happened. It was overthrowing sukarno. Imagine being this fucking dumb. Like how do you think having relations with brics is gonna get this prabowo overthrown. Brics is not a coherent block its a ingroup trading block to withstand shocks from west. Its not the next comintern. Whoa watchout vietnam you're getting regime changed for having interest in brics.

Some of these people also said the same about sri lankan tamils speaking up against genocidal collaborators who happen to be nominally communist. They immediately jumped to say wow these tamil people are CIA assets who want to sow discord. Imagine being this vile to portray people seeking justice for genocide under Sinhalese nationalists as some sinister force.

Same with like iran or pakistan. There were these protests in regarding mahsa amini who died in police custody. This seems pretty controversial to say cause these folk immediately deny her death or circumstances very ardently. The controversial part is apparently to suggest cops kill people or do extrajudicial stuff. But that apparently makes one a western regime change supporter. I guess people don't got grievances all through covid and took to protest. Only seeing western posts or news made people go protest and do regime change I guess. Yeah how about that regime change, people went and protested. There were crackdowns and even shootings. But ultimately even government officials had to condemn the police and even release protestors. But real attempts from Western powers did happen. Like assassinations of Palestinian leaders when they were in iran or using Israel to drag war. But nah nah you only do regime change by posts on twitter and ngo crap.

This happens with baloch issues or rohingya issues. Where there is straight dismissal that these people suffer oppression. They are grossly painted as pawns for indian or Israeli intelligence by like certain outlets like cradle or mangopress. Pakistan's trade relations faltering and them targeting minorities are two separate things. But in teamsports all boils down to what favorite faction supports what and not what's grounding.

My long rant isn't to downplay attempts at coups or whatever. People don't grasp shit beyond vague headlines. Yeah imran khan was ousted that doesn't really need much outside pressure. He already fell out of favor. Bangladesh didn't specifically need outside help to push away hasina. People can withstand austerity to a point and beyond that its really hard to not go against administrations. There is a lack of any historical understanding and even further lack of material understanding. This makes me despise these faux anti imperialist people who are otherwise reactionary anyway gather credence among left.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

some people need to learn to say "I don't know anything about this, where can I learn more"

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Well they generally don't and even double down with little info they latch to. They just find whoever that says a thing they want to hear. Let it be anticommunist fuck Jeffrey sach or someone like Max Blumenthal.

It just annoys me to see anything boiled down to vague platitudes. India and Iran have a port deal for a while which had Afghanistan as a third party. Pakistan being a threadbare state due to SAPs and IMF has been hanging to a thread. So there's been widespread violence towards baloch or even afghan refugees whom they are trying to expel. Indian state will once in a while to distract from Kashmir will point to baloch oppression and even try to get involved. Baloch militants target any revenue stream and of them was the port through which there is a Chinese deal. The militants have been sabotaging various ventures and have been in long standing conflict.

But somehow this is all boiled down by things like cradle to "Just some Israeli proxy".