#usamerican imperialism

[socialist-microwave-laser]

am i the only one that feels like. really weirded out about the obsession over the oppenheimer movie lmao

#usamerican exceptionalism #usamerican imperialism #like so many indigenous people were killed by the us government in their pursuit to kill a bunch of japanese people #also so many people on that team of scientists were jewish refugees from europe whose trauma was being used to manipulate them into doing #this. am i the only one haunted by so many vocal expressions of regret. idk #project manhattan #oppenheimer critical #anarchist #anti imperialism #antiracism

[hussyknee]

Tried to tell someone that Zionism is about white supremacy, Islamophobia and colonial capitalism and to stop centering western antisemitism when the whole reason that Palestinian Christians aren't protected by Christian Zionists is that they're the wrong race. And they blocked me.

Twenty thousand dead and y'all are still not done shutting down BIPOC and Muslims lol. You're not equal victims as colonized people and you never have been. Colonized natives of settler societies and people from Africa and Asia will never be white, and always be vulnerable to and exploited by white Europeans, no matter their own regional disenfranchisement. Zionism is about race, not religion. Religion is just a convenient alignment and rationale for US imperial interests i.e military industrial economy, weapons trade, shipping lines and gas reserves. Your white asses are the beneficiaries and will be last in the line to be eaten after the Black people, brown immigrants, Muslims in their own damn countries, and Natives. Every time you deny it, you're showing your refusal to divest from white anxiety and become more complicit in Zionism. Die mad.

#seriously considering adding 'whyppo dni' to my bio #anti zionism #antisemitism #jewish exceptionalism #holocaust exceptionalism #white supremacy #usamerican imperialism #colonial capitalism #gaza genocide #islamophobia #anti blackness #racism #colonization #colonialism #european colonization #free palestine #palestinian genocide #muslim lives matter #muslim genocide #the caucasity #knee of huss

[psychotrenny]

Outside of very specific contexts, I think that someone being a US soldier or veteran should instantly make them less credible, not more. And I mean very specific because even in general military matters there's no guarantee that their opinions means much because A. Modern militaries are very large and complex organisations so having any sort of knowledge or experience in one area doesn't automatically translate to having anything worthwhile to say about others (for example most veterans never actually see combat) B. A lot of soldiers are incredibly fucking stupid, as well as arrogant enough to have no inclination to fix this, so there's no guarantee they even understand or remember much of what they did actually do and C. The US military is overall rather incompetent (being much more geared towards generating value for shareholders rather than efficiently winning any wars) even "accurately relaying what the US military does" is not the same as "giving good war advice"

Unfortunately heavily ingrained ideas about the veneration of soldiers means that even in ostensibly leftist spaces you'll find plenty of bootlickers who uncritically support anything a bootboy of similar political persuasion has to say. It's a very stupid trend and one that refuse to die

#while this is more or less an issue in basically all imperial core countries (including my own) #the USamericans are the most extreme about it and their global hegemony means I have to see it the most #so that's why I'm focusing on it here

[kyitsya]

before opening their trap, every pro-russian leftist should be mandated to get a real taste of «русский мир» (“the russian world”) 🤗

#usamerican imperialism guilt so strong that u will go to any lengths to excuse other empires as long as they hate the us #ukraine syria georgia chechnya and many other nations’ blood is on russia’s hands #leftblr #tankies #russia is a terrorist state #stand with ukraine #ukraine #syria #укртамблер

[g1deonthefirst]

im just begging you people to understand that tlt is not only about imperialism but its specifically about christian european/usamerican imperialism. thats what the nine houses are set up as a parallel to and a consequence of. i dont understand how you can read the series and not get that.

#tlt #to all usamericans projecting onto harrowhark nonagesimus: #good news! just like her you benefit from living in the imperial core. #sorry this is incomprehensible im just really pissed off #about several different things at once

[orangerosebush]

Socmed discussions about Saltburn, to me —

1) reveal that people are even more squeamish about explicit gay sexuality than they think they are

(And if this is what passes for shocking erotic excess, then we, in the anglosphere, are in a more — not making a comment about individuals here — restrained moment with mainstream American/British adult cinema than we were with mainstream adult heterosexual cinema in the 90s, eg the erotic thriller)

And

2) suggest people are increasingly making art that is in conversation with, if not explicitly nostalgic for, the 2010-16 Tumblr-era.

(I really truly suspect Saltburn is, in part, an adaptation of the tropes and aesthetics that were in certain “The Social Network” fan spaces.)

#Saltburn is a period piece of this very specific very Anglophile tumblr moment #that specifically was obsessed with poshness and the upper class (usually more or less aristocratic) of the UK #much of the tumblr cultural backlash to that moment (eg the British accent jokes now; the food jokes) #is just USAmericans getting embarrassed over having prostrated themselves at the uncaring altar of British old money #and in response to that embarrassment these USAmericans I guess just started shitting on poor British class signifiers (eg usually a lot of #the mockery is about northerners esp northern women) #which is really just a continuation of tasteless American passes at being ‘above’ the poor brits they’re mocking to align with the landed #and titled of the UK #which lol they hate you just like they hate the poor British!! silly silly silly attempt to appear worldly #and to be clear my comments are about a specific kind of American-Brit beef between white tumblr users #and none of the conversation is meaningfully about British colonialism or American cultural or literal imperialism #or even about anglocenticism in general #j realize this a lot to write about something that can be boiled down to : specious and inane comments r being made by the stupidest of the #site from the imperial core of the world #and it’s usually between users who have no fucking business making class jokes #because critically the experiences they’re mocking are so removed from any struggle for survival they’ve had — on both the USA and UK side

[orfeolookback]

did yall hear it they're banning the yanks from tiktok maybe the internet will finally heal

#don't look back #i saw a stupid ass post by an usamerican that assumed everyone is usamerica #bitch find other ways to organize at this point we're tired of being poisoned by your country and your culture and your #imperialism and simply having to be kind and understanding when bad things happen BECAUSE of yall #and you dont DO SHIT

[chamerionwrites]

While these protests succeeded in disrupting normal operations at the targeted arms companies, they were unable to meaningfully halt the manufacture of weapons, in part because the group best poised to shut down production was conspicuously absent from each of the actions: the companies’ workers. More than two million US workers are employed by the weapons industry, which produces over 80% of all of Israel’s arms imports, including “precision guided munitions, small diameter bombs, artillery, ammunition, Iron Dome interceptors and other critical equipment,” according to the Pentagon, as well as F-35 aircraft—the most advanced fighter jets in the world. In the past month and a half, Israel has used these weapons in a genocidal assault that has killed more than 14,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, at least 5,600 of them children. The violence has prompted direct action against the Israeli war machine’s supply chain, with protesters targeting not only munitions factories but also ships transporting arms to Israel and financial firms with significant investments in the weapons industry. But unlike in many other parts of the world, where weapons workers have led the disruption in response to an urgent call for solidarity from Palestinian trade unions, in the US, unions in the weapons industry have so far remained outside the fray.

This is despite the presence of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of unionized workers in the US weapons industry, some of whom are employed at the very factories that protesters have attempted to shut down this fall. As journalist Taylor Barnes reported earlier this year, each of the five major Pentagon contractors—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics—employs some unionized workers, although union density at the firms ranges from as low as 4% at Northrop Grumman to as high as 32% at Boeing. Many of these unionized workers belong either to the International Association of Machinists (IAM), or to the United Auto Workers (UAW), which is part of a renaissance in the US labor movement. Both unions include employees at Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics; the IAM additionally represents workers at Northrop Grumman and M7 Aerospace, a wholly owned subsidiary of the infamous Elbit Systems, while the UAW represents workers at Woodward, Inc., an aerospace firm that gained unwanted attention last month after a viral photo from the ruins of Gaza appeared to show a used missile component with the company’s logo on it. The unions are also actively organizing more workers in the weapons industry: Just last month, for example, the IAM unionized 332 Lockheed employees in Kentucky.

For anti-war labor organizers in the United States, unionized weapons workers present a paradox: Serving such members ostensibly requires making weapons industry jobs stable and remunerative, but the principles of global solidarity call for dismantling the war machine altogether. Traditionally, US unions have only pursued the former mandate. As one anonymous local union president in the industry put it to researcher Karen Bell earlier this year, “my top priority is trying to make sure that we have work in jobs in the United States . . . I don’t make a lot of judgments on anything other than, what can you do to keep the people I represent in work? That’s my job, and to be anything other than that, it would really be a disservice to the people that are paying my salary.” Rather than questioning their role in the industry, unions have reconfirmed their relationships with weapons companies since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Last month, 1,000 IAM members in Arizona and 1,100 UAW members across the Midwest separately ratified new contracts with Raytheon and General Dynamics respectively, during a period when both companies were actively implicated in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. When the Raytheon contract deal was announced on October 22nd, one IAM leader said he was “proud to support our Raytheon members and excited for this contract’s positive impact on their lives”—a statement that highlights the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the economic interests of weapons industry workers and the anti-war, anti-genocide movement.

#solidarity w h e n c e #you should read the whole article there's a lot more discussion of history/suggestions for the future #but also god the shortsighted selfishness of usamericans is fucking dire #the 'left' is this country is doomed to have its political hopes relentlessly thrashed to a bloody pulp as long as it is this spineless #yeah we live in a hellworld w v real obstacles against us but also capitalism and imperialism are systems unbound by borders #and neither should your organizing be bound! hang together or hang separately you absolute fools #IMPERIAL VIOLENCE ALWAYS COMES HOME #if you need a reasons that aren't. morals. #anyway. that's my thankless cassandra prophecy for the day. #military industrial complex #labor rights #palestine #news #my posts #no more war

[farsight-the-char]

"Major Wulf Khan"

A mercy their name is not some americana name like "Sergeant Jackson" or "Captain Roger Roger".

#warhammer #catachan jungle fighters #imperial guard #black library #40k #tyranids #Catachan characters having very usamerican names felt weird after a certain point

[lord-squiggletits]

Between TF and my other fandoms like BG3 and TES, I keep finding myself making OCs that have some element of "battle hardened hero who is actually good and righteous, but so traumatized by the toll of war that even after the war ends they feel empty/wrecked and can't enjoy the fruits of victory" and I'm not sure if it's bc I gravitate to a certain type of media where such OCs fit in best, or bc I have a specific character archetype I like and gravitate towards media that contains those things.

#squiggposting #possibly a mix of both bc idk if i've gone into detail here but war stories are one of my favorite genre of stories #like for fun fictional reasons but also for real life political and moral and emotional implications #war stories are literally so fucking cool man i feel like they get a bad rap for just being propaganda tools #and obv a lot of them can be/are explicitly made to be but also like #(i feel like i'm stealing a quote from one such story) war stories are also a method for the soldiers of the war to tell their side #and usually the soldier's side of the story tells of the LESS glorious and propagandistic sides #maybe ive just had the pleasure of having really good teachers/professors but like #most of the war stories i've read are specifically ABOUT the bridge bt war propaganda and the actual experience of fighting in a war #and i think even the ones where the soldier in question supports the war (american sniper comes to mind) #it's very interesting and dare i say important to read it and understand when and why and how they came to support war #like idk i think it's one of those things where ppl shy away from war stories bc #'ew gross it's all pro war probably american imperialist propaganda written by oppressive killers trying to make us feel sorry for them' #without understanding... idk. the difference between an individual soldier's evil and the evil of an entire institution? #some sort of anti intellectualism regarding soldiers as being inherently evil ppl who aren't to be listened to or taken seriously? #it's not a matter of like. you don't need to like or sympathize with them per se. but i think part of understanding and criticizing #the institution of war is getting the ground level testimonies about it. and more of them are critical than some ppl believe #plus i mean FUCK usamerican imperialism it doesn't need to be about US wars! other countries lived thru other wars that are also important! #war stories may have their strongest association w american imperialism but that doesn't mean other war stories don't exist #idk sorry for rambling in the tags

[socialist-microwave-laser]

like idk man the way the us military is so heavily involved in the oscars + the way they LITERALLY ENABLED THE COUP IN ARGENTINA AND FUCKING FACILITATED THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. it feels convenient that's all i'm saying

#argentina 1985 #oscars #operation condor #military industrial complex #military propaganda #military entertainment complex #imperialism #colonialism #usamerican supremacy

[hussyknee]

Twitter feels like an even split between pro-Palestine supporters and the most horrific kind of racists, Zionists and white supremacists. Tumblr is by comparison overwhelmingly in support of Palestine. And yet the level of dehumanization, isolation, Othering and casual racism on here is so much more unbearable and suffocating than Twitter could ever be.

Tumblr wants to be seen as the anti-racist good guys on the right side of history while reinforcing the racist white supremacist western-centric status quo. Black and brown people are given platform under strict conditions of what values can be challenged and how far white comfort can be pushed. It's on Twitter that we have our own communities, our own power of advocacy, and a collective drive to interrogate and dismantle structures of power.

It reinforces what I have known for a long time— Tumblr's hatred of Twitter and TikTok is based primarily on refusing to tolerate the reality of equal representation, leftist action and racial justice. A true diversity of power and perspectives is messy, chaotic, conflict-driven and upends the sense of stability and space that can only come with a homogeneity of racial demographic. The majority of disenfranchised people understands that power structures and bureaucracies are built on purpose to exclude them — the poor, the sex workers, the incarcerated, the ghettoised, the disabled, the colonized. We have to fight to be heard, and our reality and political investment cannot be separated from the minority trauma that informs them. True equality entails not having to funnel that trauma through behaviour and ethics that makes their expression more palatable or considering of others; it removes all respectability politics and allows us to behave with the same unpunished toxicity that is unleashed on us by white and western people. Conflict, cacophony and having to tolerate the untempered emotions and self-interest of all groups is the price of true diversity and honest dialogue. It also primarily empowers Black and brown people and disempowers whites. In contrast, the "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" on predominantly white-driven and Western-oriented spaces is a simply a neoliberal farce that requires us to perform our own humanity and ask validation from whiteness. This is why you see only the worst aspects and negative effects of Twitter and TikTok and use them to reject the the platforms wholesale while creating a narrative of moral superiority around Tumblr's relatively low levels of conflict and glossing over the receding presence of Black and brown people in its userbase.

Race is not a layer of oppression. It's the fundamental bisection that creates the underclass on which the colonial capitalist world order is built. It's the caste hierarchy of humanity; who gets to be labourer and profiteer, the exploiter and exploited, the worker and producer, the consumer and consumed, the masses and the individual. The living bodies and embodied lives. The experience of every other marginalization is shaped by its waters. White women and queers will neither understand nor share in the oppression of women and QPoC from both diasporas and the Global South. Even further, every marginalization becomes a weapon against BIPOC in the hands of its white demographic. Black and brown people of those marginalized communities will always only be a token and shield for their white counterparts, while being the workhorses behind their struggles.

It doesn't matter how many times you post "Free Palestine" when we know its only the product of your preoccupation with your own personal moral landscape. Politics based on egoism will always be eclipsed by threats to your material reality. This is why a userbase that spent its entire existence grandstanding against Nazis now cannot see Zionists as Nazis and begs people to participate in a political establishment that has revealed itself to be a genocidal white supremacist regime in the clearest possible terms. Fascism against its own enfranchised is the end stage of an empire that has begun to collapse under the weight of its war-mongering and now resorts to eating itself to survive. No amount of moral distance between yourselves and its machinery of death, no amount of scapegoating the lives crushed underneath it, will stop the roofs you sheltered under falling on top of you. This the truth that the colonized, enslaved and indentured people that built your house have lived all along.

#tumblr culture #twitter #tumblr wank #tiktok #white supremacy #racism #anti-blackness #islamophobia #antisemitism #anti zionism #usamerican imperialism #western imperialism #colonization #colonialism #free palestine #diversity and inclusion #respectability politics #global south #coloniality #genocide #war crimes #knee of huss

[lesbiansanemi]

Those posts that are like “Americans don’t know geography and are so stupid and self centered” that are then filled with Americans being like “WELL ACTUALLY ITS BECAUSE THEY DONT TEACH US IN SCHOOL THATS NOT OUR FAULT” make me roll my eyes because like. If you don’t know basic geography because, supposedly, you never ONCE had a class that taught it at all, you should probably get on that. If you can whine on tumblr you can learn where other countries are and a little bit about them

But also as a certified American, I distinctly remember in my freshman year world geography class (a REQUIREMENT class we needed to graduate) there were ppl who dead ass could not even identify the state we actively lived in let alone countries on another continent and also completely avoided actually learning these things so maybe Americans are just fucking stupid and self centered

#that ‘argument’ always baffles me #cuz I’ve never met a person who wasn’t required to take at least one geography class in either high school or grade school??? #I think maybe you ppl just didn’t pay attention and can’t handle getting rightfully criticized for think the USA is the only Country Ever #you might not THINK you think that. but the way you talk about/ignore all other countries #and try to blame it on a ‘failure’ of the education system is telling #because sure. the education system def does not address America’s imperialism and history as it should #but it DEFINITELY at least taught you how to look at a map and find other countries 😭😭😭 #and again. you are fully capable of doing your own research and learning #which as a USAmerican you should def be doing so you can be Aware of which countries were affected by our imperialism and how we benefit #from that. which lets me real. is most other countries #idk idk. it’s just. y know. an argument that seems like a straw man to avoid taking any kind of responsibility for your ignorance #kaz rambles

[daeluin]

like in my lifetime (32 years) i saw the dollar-pesos argentinos exchange rate go from 1 to 1 in 2000 to 1 to 1000

that's a five digits devaluation. in less than 30 years..... like can you imagine what that does to any economy????

like can you even imagine what it's like living in this fucking graphic

#so yeah no we can't have an honest discussion about imperialism and neocolonialism and oppression if usamericans can't warp their minds #around what the dollar as a global currency means and how they benefit of it #us imperialism #im sorry im sorry I said I wasn't gonna be argie posting but man #no te da ganas de salir y cagar a palos a un político #also this goes hand in hand with my previous photo of the chicago boys bc lawl EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS!!!

[manaosdeuwu]

the thing about usamerican is that it's a more specific term y'know? calling someone from the us 'american' is like calling someone from italy 'european' or someone from India 'asian'. which they are but it doesn't narrow down the nationality. it's like pretending that the word for the people of an entire continent is only for one country

#to me its also a need to differentiate between american and usamerican. im sick and tired of globalisation and modern imperialism #todes les que vivimos en el continente americano somos americanos y punto. #es como si los argentinos nos empezaramos a llamar sudamericanos exclusivamente para referirnos a argentinos #No Va. provincias unidas del sud y todo pero no somos Todo Sudamérica #no sé si se entiende pero bueno 👍 #also last rb wasnt saying that american is exclusive for people from the us #but calling usamericans Only americans has that effect #nero habla

[butch-chastity]

i did bitch about dune & i think the cast and crew are pretty evil for wearing clothes w/ swana aesthetics to their billion dollar movie premire while remaining silent on palestine & im pretty cynical about how many people are going to see the movie and root for the fictional resistance while also being vocally anti-palestine BUT every post I see about this topic on this site has nothing to do with what I just described some of y'all are really like "guys,,, dune is about colonization??? WHY are you watching it" like gee man. if that's true... maybe the hunger games has something to say about how the government uses mainstream media? like those books literally depicted child murder. Wow. r u seeing this shit man

#i do want to clarify that. even if dune the books are about imperialism colonialism and the west's impact in the middle east they are still #very usamerican guy writing about these topics in the 60s. and same w the hunger games to a certain degree (even if the circumstances are #different). #anyway. if youre reading this and didnt grasp the point of the post: this post is about how some people on this site are once again clingin #to depiction = glorification without any critical thought or any consideration as to the ramifications of this situation in the real world. #thank u #talking tag