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What is it with so many maps drawn by Americans pretending Canada doesn’t exist?
The neighbour we can’t make eye contact with anymore
Fuck you neighbor! (JK, unless you are a fascist)
No, but fair enough. We’ll try to keep it down, sorry
It’s a political cartoon not a map.
It’s a fully accurate map actually. Every time one of these gets made I immediately fall into the ocean and have to help rebuild my country again from the ground up. It’s not something many people talk about but it’s a real challenge in the Canadian way of life.
Canada exists?
IIRC, I believe this is from a KGB operation to promote socialist and anti-capitalist sentiments in the US population.
What’s with so many maps drawn by the USSR pretending Canada doesn’t exist?
Internet leftists heavily subscribe to the idea of spheres of influence. Canada (and Western Europe) fall into the US sphere. What the citizens of those countries think or want is of no importance.
This also explains the .ml’s support for Russia over Ukraine. In their worldview, Ukraine belongs solely to Russia, and Ukrainians resistance to that can only be explained by actions of the CIA, since Ukrainian citizens can have no agency of their own.
I’ve never seen such a reductionist view presented as so enlightened.
“Internet leftists heavily subscribe” is just a tad of an overgeneralization mate
Of course you’re absolutely right. I was hoping to avoid calling out the .ml denizens specifically. But here we are.
States function according to their strategic interests and trade relations, not as pot luck dinners.
For a long while, capitalism fans described worker democracies as the “ideal workplace”. They only changed tune, mostly to the “what if someone does not want to vote” mantra, after the resurrgence of real leftism online.
What is it you propose the USA is hiding, exactly?
The cartoon isn’t ambiguous
It’s really vague, and does warrant some specific examples…
I’d say if anything, they pretend some things are more peaceful than they are. Like sending the military in to capture a foreign leader being portrayed as simply “a military operation” rather than “act of war”. Emphasizing celebrations by Venezulan ex-pats.
The nominally socialist nations that receive media attention are generally truly not particularly peaceful, and the socialist nations that are pretty good peace wise are well known, but just too ‘boring’ to be in a ‘news’ cycle.
I suppose the point is that people can’t just take someone’s declaration of ‘socialism’ at face value, as there’s too many examples of malicious authoritarianism that claimed affinity to socialism as part of their rise to power. Not to say that capitalist nations are faring any better, just that the word ‘socialism’ when wielded as a brand isn’t to be trusted.
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Who are you to make me spend a bunch of time “enlightening” someone whose intentions are clearly in bad faith.
I’m not sure why you engaged at all if you didn’t have an answer to my question.
To call you out on being an antagonizer
When you complain about people disrupting the 3cho chamber you should be more subtle about it.
lol, try some better bait, asshat
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Here’s an answer if you’re willing to watch a 20 min video.
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That’s disappointing… I’ll give you one example then. I’ll try to keep it short. Democratically elected socialist, Salvador Allende, was overthrown with help from Nixon, Kissenger, and the CIA using the media to influence public opinion in the 70s. Allende wanted to nationalize Chile’s resources like its copper mines which at the time were owned by US companies.
The means by which all people can be liberated, and the extent to which all people are currently exploited.
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Let’s start with universal healthcare for all.
the vast majority of americans don’t know the first thing about political movements originating from the global south. let’s start there
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- the women’s war in syria
- liberation movement throughout africa seeking to erode neocolonialism
- the origins and collapse of congolese independence work that was disrupted by the CIA leading to the current civil war
- who the opposition to Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is
there’s all sorts
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Syria is absolutely part of the global south. you know the global south is primarily about economic exploitation and not geography, right? and good for you knowing these things. but most americans aren’t keyed into all this at all
We could start with the violent history of union formation. I only got like one line in an elementary school textbook telling me the pinkertons existed and that was it. Then we can move on to the violent bombing of Tulsa, OK which nobody talks about.
PEACE AND SOCIALISM. It’s literally right there in the cartoon you knob
Name any nominally socialist country where the press wasn’t more tightly controlled than it ever was in the US.
Name any nominally socialist country
I’m stuck right there. Nominally…in the name? or something like this:
Or historically named/labeled socialist? Or current Democratic Socialist countries? And what type of press freedom? Seems like it would be a semester class in college to answer that, and would veer into philosophy at a minimum.
I don’t know why Greenland is pink in that picture. The liberals (right of center) won the latest election.
Ugh, the color choices for ‘former’ versus ‘socialist ruling party’ are impossible for color blind folks…
You think the press is more free in Russia than the US?
Closer every day
You people are so funny.
Great retort bud.
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Not more tankie hanky panky! Is this tankie in the thread with us rn?
The guy who got his knickers in a twist over me referring to “nominally socialist” countries would count in my book.
I still don’t know word “nominally” is supposed to mean, even after being awarded certificate of competency in a scientific field related to the mathematics. Guess that’s politic speak for ya (me)
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The state is not the only system of consolidated power.
The press obviously is tightly controlled by its wealthy owners.
The question is who is controlling the press and to what ends? Almost all press is controlled.
Denmark. The Netherlands. Norway. Quality of journalism is generally better in the EU anyway.
Those countries are capitalist.
I do not agree with the other poster and I fully wish we adopted a more Nordic economic model, but they’re still capitalist with much more socialism to prop up those who need it.
I’m honestly lost for words.
Yeah, people complain about billionaires owning the press. Which is a fair thing to complain about.
However… In communist countries, not only did the billionaires also own the press, they sent you to the gulag if you complained about it.
