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Mali and Burkina Faso banned Americans a few days ago. What with Maduro's kidnapping, it looks like that decision payed off in more ways than they might have anticipated!

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

US imperialism is a paper tiger. Grow a spine and organise.

[–] CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always laugh at this line. What does that make Maduro? What does it make the USSR? What of the hundreds of colonized nations?

Victims of a mere paper tiger, I suppose.

Do you really know what we need a spine for? All we do is waste away "organizing" over bullshit. Uninspired, insipid fucking protests, milquetoast bargaining meetings, blah blah blah mutual aid drama drama tenderqueer drama. We aren't going to save anyone from anything. Not ourselves and not anyone abroad. We will exploit and betray our own sympathies, nothing more. Do not make the error of blaming imperial citizens for not defeating their own champions. We aren't going to be guilted into dismantling our empire. Do you not know the mountain of skulls we had to pile just to lay it's foundation? We have only begun to destroy the world as nothing but a paper tiger.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Taking a doomerist stance just forces the responsibility for organizing onto the global south, and is deeply chauvanist.