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What’s the US gonna do? Slink away in the middle of the night again?

    • windowlicker [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      a lot of pro-imperialists make this joke because they are aware its not actual democracy, they just celebrate racist violence more than they will ever celebrate their vague idea of “democracy”

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      they’re past the stage where they believe the empire’s bullshit rationalizations. They still support the empire because they’re chauvinists, but they’re in an ironic stage where they are embracing the true nature of imperial violence.

      It’s similar to the landlord LARPing as an oppressed class, People of Land, talking about how evil tenets are, etc. that happens in neoliberal corners of Reddit