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Would you forgive or talk around these atrocities ? https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md.
If you do then you're an hypocrite ; if you don't then you're probably an anti-imperialist like us.
This useful list was made by the same @dessalines that made Lemmy.
Here's just one example of what you've accepted : We've supported dictatorships in Hong-Kong(, they couldn't vote until 1985), and Taiwan.
For South Korea as well(, Rhee Syngnam from 1948 to 1960 ; Park Chung-hee from 1961 to 1979 ; and Chun Doo-hwan from 1980 to 1988).
We also supported the dictatorship in Myanmar, and Suharto in Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, etc.
We also supported the authoritarian South Vietnam(, 1955-1963).
And we’ll remember the Khmer rouge, but not the authoritarian and western-backed Lon Nol.
We(sterners) also supported the military regimes in Thailand, anything but communism. Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore was also considered authoritarian.
That's only in Asia, which we abundantly bombed as you know because it was our duty to stop the freedom of choosing communism. The dozens of dictatorships that we supported or (helped )installed in South America and Africa are a bit more known, but not that much.
We're against communism more than tyrans, and aren't invading because we have the moral duty to free these populations against their will, it's just propaganda. Hitler probably had other arguments that judeo-bolchevism to fabricate the consentements of the germans to war, we(sterners) are using liberty, and it doesn't really seem like we have a second argument so we're going all-in on this one.
Lemmygrad users are denying atrocity propaganda, and don't want to close their eyes on our support to every anti-communist dictatorship.
They're dreamers of a better world, not afraid to think by themselves, and see like i do that we're surrounded with conformists believing every single thing they've been told, who would have thus developed the opposite point of view if they were born in the other country.
Look, i don't like dictatorships either, and consider reddit worrying, but atrocity propaganda is a classic, we have many arguments to debunk our lies, almost all of them ignored by the rest of the population while we know your arguments. Our debunking is also the point of view of these governments and their population, who also know our arguments while we ignore theirs, not that our attacks are hard to understand anyway, the debunking necessarily take a bit more reading/understanding.
We're dreaming of a better world, and arguing why it'd be desirable.
I can demonstrate why their political polls are genuine and their happiness outstanding, and why their propaganda isn't as bad as you think it is, use Rednote, Douyin, or other apps if you want to see what chinese people are like.
Am i right to understand that you have a problem with authoritarianism, and not communism per se, may i then ask by curiosity about your opinion on libertarian communism, or anarcho-communism ?