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Educate me on AES countries (hexbear.net)
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I'm a baby Marxist, and I'm not particularly knowledgeable on AES countries. I've really enjoyed finding effort posts debunking propaganda and talking about the actual state of them, but dredging them up with the search feature isn't particularly effective. I'd love to hear what people have to say, especially about China and the DPRK, since those are the ones that come up most frequently.

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would just caution you to remember just how utterly vile some of the lies the USA has been caught in, are. Trying to prosecute the soldier who attempted to prevent the my lai massacre. Saying Iraq had WMDs. Bribing a teenage girl to lie about seeing soldiers throw babies out of incubators. False flags to justify their various wars. Now, we shouldn't dismiss serious accusations out of hand, but we should expect genuinely independent verification of any claim that serves American geopolitical interests, and we definitely should not start from the assumption that any given American accusation is true.

[–] context@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trying to prosecute the soldier who attempted to prevent the my lai massacre. Saying Iraq had WMDs. Bribing a teenage girl to lie about seeing soldiers throw babies out of incubators.

wow, colin powell was involved in all 3 of those

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Really? Yeesh. Man was speedrunning damnation.

[–] context@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

definitely involved in whitewashing my lai and was chairman of the joint chiefs during desert storm, no way he wasn't at least tangentially involved in the nayirah testimony. yeah, your post reminded me what a piece of shit that dude was.

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