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18 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Stop saying the US is the worst government on earth! Others are way worse!"

Name one. Name one that's currently doing anything that rises to the level of murdering millions and displacing tens of millions in imperialist wars and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it.
You can't. You can't name a single government that's anywhere near as destructive and tyrannical as Washington today. All you can do is talk about what other governments have done generations in the past or pretend domestic oppression is as bad as killing millions in unjust wars.
The US is the most tyrannical regime on earth. Indisputably. Yet because it has such an effective propaganda machine, few people let this indisputable fact inform their worldview and foreign policy perspectives to the extent that they should.
Killed millions: consortiumnews.com/2018/04/25/how…
Displaced tens of millions: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…

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There's a focus on profit-driven solutions to climate collapse because our profit-driven global model always values making more things ("men's work") and never values cleaning things up ("women's work"). That's also why most of the work traditionally done by women is unpaid.
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Every day the western media spend manipulating people into accepting the murderous and exploitative oligarchic imperialist status quo as normal, they are engaging in disinformation that kills an immense number of people. But you'll never see the president working to silence them.
The oligarchic empire has no problem with disinformation. It couldn't exist without disinformation. Its real objection is to people having the ability to share information which it does not control.
Just in America untold thousands of people die every single year as a result of an exploitative status quo which makes them sick and impoverished, and this is made possible solely because of a highly advanced propaganda campaign by the plutocratic class.
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America is literally the worst country in the world. Shut the fuck up about Cuba.
This just in, people in the world's most deadly and destructive country have very strong opinions about a tiny island nation's government.
Some Americans are offended by the original post. I invite them to shut the fuck up.
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The elephant in the room with the US government demanding increasing amounts of censorship from online platforms is that the platforms understand the government can easily bring antitrust cases against them and break them up if they don't obey.
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