https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

Originally published: January 12, 1988

“But there is plenty of blame to go around,” as Sovietologist John Arch Getty recently noted in The London Re­view of Books. “It must be shared by the tens of thousands of activists and offi­cials who carried out the policy and by the peasants who chose to slaughter ani­mals, burn fields, and boycott cultivation in protest.”

Such a balanced analysis, however, has never satisfied Ukrainian nationalists in the United States and Canada, for whom the “terror-famine” is an article of faith and communal rallying point. For decades after the fact, their obsession was con­fined to émigré journals.

After 50 years on the fringes, the Ukraine famine debate is finally front and center. While one-note faminologists may teach us little real history, they re­veal how our sense of history is pulled by political fashion until it hardens into the taffy of conventional wisdom. And how you can fool most of the people most of the time — especially when you tell them what they want to hear.

The United States is just a nation of America. America is two whole continents of peoples. That is the whole point the end of the performance was making. USians aren’t the only “Americans”.

https://youtu.be/GK87AKIPyZY

I would also recommend this other video that is also really good: https://youtu.be/Zl_GlPquElI

And he did some tracks with Bad Bunny years ago.

Leftism starts at anti-capitalism. Liberalism is pro-capitalism. Simple as.

I’m willing to bet money that a thing that never happened would have happened…

wtf even are you doing?

Those who do not learn from history something something, nvm probably not important to anything happening today.

when the Imperialist Boomerang is used by a global nuclear hegemony, this is some quality meme making

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/gaza-toll-could-exceed-186000-lancet-study-says

July 2024:

After applying a “conservative estimate” of four indirect deaths per one direct death, “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable” to the Gaza war, the study found.

Scratch a liberal

And they say a fascist bleeds

Parenti spoke truth

It’s the classic Microsoft “triple E” strategy that has been used against libre historically:

• Embrace (interoperable)

• Extend (new features)

• Extinguish (fork the protocols to break interoperability)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish

ICE is recruiting the same itchy trigger finger demographic as Trayvon’s killer with the promise of no consequences and large paychecks. They are killing indiscriminately already. There’s billions of dollars dedicated to continuing this project. Organize for community defense asap.

The phrase “money is speech” refers to the Supreme Court’s interpretation that spending money in political campaigns is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. This concept was notably established in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy.

This is what liberalism does. Wealth inequality inevitably unbalances any sense of liberty in material reality over time. It is the ideology of capitalism that is destroying community, humanity and the biosphere and climate.

I just put this one together - our meme template comrades

There’s so many things you could put in that first spot too, many that are currently happening.

The purpose of a system is what it does. The US has been doing shit like this for centuries at this point.

How’s that purple cake with blue frosting tasting?

Here is the Lemmy.ml link to that post:

https://lemmy.ml/post/41281333

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/85962.htm

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/09/26/bill-clinton-offers-rare-us-praise-for-putin-a28033

The US was closely involved with Russian leadership after the end of the USSR that they facilitated. Eventually Putin realized he would not be allowed “at the table” with US/NATO/EU.

Russia as it exists today is a creation of the US/NATO. Your western chauvinism runs so deep. The empire has been fighting any alternative to capitalism/fascism for decades, but you say these things.

There is one hegemonic power that has been doing imperialism for decades. They have by far the largest military presence across the globe, and they maintain currency hegemony over this long period as well. It is one empire, not empires in your “both sides” or “many sides” rhetoric. The EU and Japan et all are willing servants of this hegemonic order for most of this period. Millions have been killed by wars, interventions and economic mechanisms that serve to maintain this empire.

The capitalist empire has always been like this. You are comparing trade alliances to war mongering genocidal profiteering across the globe over decades. These are not even close to equivalent.