But hey…no immigrants. Dumb as hell.
Real putin Energy that one.
I would say Soloviev energy
& they wonder why we call them fascists.
This is why.
“the peace president” they said…No war they said.
“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
GW Bush Admin
Putin and other tankies showed the way so why not.
Putin is not a tankie; the dude is a literal billionaire who participated in gutting the USSR. How well did the haute bourgeosie fare under Lenin or Mao?
Perhaps he wasn’t a stalinist around the time of USSR’s deflation but he sure is like Stalin reincarnated today. And seeing as we are in lemmy, I need the feel to remind everyone that that is an extremely bad thing to be.
I’ve had multiple conversations with people here on Lemmy who seem to be under the impression that Stalin was a great dude who really just wanted to best for everyone, freedom and riches!
This is the point where you’re an extremist without knowing that you’re an extremist
Being an extremist means having any more nuanced view than “stalin just loved doing evil things for absolutely no reason”
Stalin was a communist revolutionary who played an integral role in the creation of the USSR. Putin is a liberal counterrevolutionary, who is partly responsible for hypercapitalist modern Russia, the two are not comparable at all.
If by “he sure is like stalin”, you mean he employs violence to maintain and consolidate power, that’s every state ever, that’s kinda how states work.
Meanwhile, in reality, they are terrified of letting Puerto Rico become a state because it might threaten their delicate gerrymandered hegemony in Congress by adding two more senators and one or more representatives. This “map” is the fever dream of a lead-poisoned, terminally MAGA moron.
I don’t understand why they automatically assume that PR would go democrat.
Both democrats and republicans believe Latinos owe allegiance to the democrat party.
I don’t know if owe is the right word, but yeah, both parties assume they’ll go democrat and I think that’s a smug assumption typical of the elites. Granted trump was a dick to PR during hurricane Maria, but if he actually responded appropriately he’d likely have a lot more support than either party would realize. I think they should either be a state or gain full independence, this in between seems unfair to them. (And I feel that way about all of Americas territories subject to taxation without representation)
So, most of them then…
Settler state wants more land to settle
All this talk of expanding the USA from everyone is… concerning.
Also this map includes Iceland, northern Sicily and the Faroe Islands. What?
How come they want a little chunk of Mexico and all of Nicaragua, but they don’t the rest of Mexico?
They need somewhere to deport people to obviously/s
I’m surprised they didn’t just stretch the northern states to consume Canada. Perhaps they are afraid of giga Michigan and it’s immense power.
BC is gone 🥺 As are NWT and Nunavut.
No idea what CL/CD (in BC) and MK (NWT) and KW (Nunavut) are supposed to refer to.
Totally not fascist.
I love how even unconsciously they can’t take Mexico. I know it’s most probably racism, but we still prevail prior to come back.
I know it’s a joke, but Mexico has been a US colony since the NAFTA was established.
Not joking. The USA can take Mexico anytime, but they hardly could keep it. Also, the USA does not rule in Mexico, at least not openly. If you take that USA meddling in other countries affairs is enough to call it a colony, well, then everyone in the world is a colony of the USA. NAFTA was a trade agreement, but it was contingent to whatever is agreed between governments, not whatever the US government says. The renegotiation of NAFTA, the USMCA, is proof of this. If the USA government thinks countries in the world do not have options to trade, it’s their mistake. At this point they can be replaced, but that doesn’t help anybody in North America.
If the USA government thinks countries in the world do not have options to trade, it’s their mistake
Any country that is not prepared to get the Venezuala/Cuba/Iran/Russia/North Korea treatment will do what the US tells it.
That’s getting old by the hour and I hope it keeps happening like that. What the US government keeps doing in Cuba is globally despised. Cuba just joined BRICS, and at least I hope they can profit from their new trade partners.
Canada, Panama and Greenland (Denmark) should not worry. Every single fucking loser MAGAt will have a copy of Cadet Bone Spur’s 1968 doctors note excusing them from military service.
This is how it begins. You keep calling territory that isn’t yours your territory until it sounds normal to those that you have created a cult or pact with. Then it doesn’t seem so abnormal when you decide it is yours.
People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.
The tyranny of countries more free than US. Only one thing to do. Yes, that is destroy them not copy them. Why would you want to adopt a better system when you can destroy theirs and claim yours was the best all along.
People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.
I keep seeing liberals roll this one out, despite spending the last six months shamelessly pandering to conservative voters. Can’t imagine why a Democrat would lose an election with this strategy. “You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! Oh, um, vote for me, I actually love strong border policies and Israel is the Best and transgender athletes are a big problem, tee-hee! Fuck, fuck, fuck, you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot!”
Love how true this is yet is currently at -19.
Liberals can’t cope with their election loss, in which their parties strategy was to court people who would never vote for them in the first place instead of their base who they actually secretly hate and just pander to for votes yet will never do anything for because it counters their donors wishes.
Seeing as they mention America’s 250th birthday I am going to mention that the average lifespan of an empire is 250 years.
Yeah. This empire will last less than Liz Truss’s term as Prime-Minister.
But also most empires didn’t live in the age of instant global communication and endless propaganda power and surveillance.
Yes, I am sure all existing empires will now last until the end of time.
I hope not. But they’re definitely gonna be a lot harder to take down.
I don’t mean to say that, but they might be much sturdier.
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