This could’ve been a great episode of columbo.

Anyone who has the thought: “yes i would kill clone me”, you better watch your back, your clone thinks the same way you do.

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Never thought about it before, but I guess this makes portal guns impossible, since scenarios like this break conservation of energy.

You ever heard of operation cyclone before?

You going on racist rants, calling spanish speakers arrogant (which you’ve done twice now), is not anything we will ever allow on lemmy.ml.

Also the absolute gall of someone calling spanish speakers arrogant, when it’s the US who’s trying their best to exclude them from a designation they call themselves.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#is-china-state-capitalist

For anyone interested, here’s the modlog , and to recap:

You get corrected by a Brazilian correctly saying they’re also American, and disagree with the US’s imperialist co-opting of that term to exclude the majority of Americans.

You respond to them by denigrating “arrogant spanish speakers” (Portuguese is the language spoken in Brazil btw), and get banned for a week.

You’re even continuing to do racist rants in this very thread, like this comment of yours below

The Latin Americans complaining about the use of the term “America” to refer to the country of America were the most arrogant, rude arseholes I had come across.

Not really. Most americans aren’t native english speakers, and still consider themselves americans. They don’t roll over and let the US coopt that term.

Getting you to read is impossible. Stop white-supremacist vibing and actually read about its historical usage. I even linked you an article, which I know you didn’t read.

It’s so frustrating to read books about the long history of these things and then have confidently wrong children try to correct you with a vibes-based analysis.

Now, using “Americans” to refer to everyone over here did exist before the U.S., going back to at least the 1500s. I think that was only in use in English, I’ve never looked up what was used in French and Spanish back then. But since the USA came into being as country, it has been the default term for US citizens colloquially.

Confidently wrong. US leaders didn’t start referring to its citizens as americans or its country as america until ~1900.

I know you won’t read the book I linked, and are going off of white-supremacist vibes, so here’s an article for everyone else about the history of this imperialist usage.

Most americans, the majority of whom don’t live in the US, dislike the usurpation of that term. There’s a longer history starting in the late 1800s of US politicians using “america”, “greater america”, to coincide with its imperial ambitions in Latin america and the carribean.

The USA even had a time when it had more people in its colonies living outside its contiguous borders, than it did inside.

There’s a lot on this in the book, how to hide an empire.

Usonian also works.

The author Domenico Losurdo uses the term mutual demystification a lot, especially in Liberalism - a counter history. When two parties accuse each other of being hypocrites, it often ends up showing that they both are.

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I’m 99% sure its sarcasm.

Unfortunately the people advertising lemmy on reddit and elsewhere rarely link join-lemmy.org, and direct people to join a few large instances. So we’ll likely keep having centralization problems for the forseeable future.

Anyone can search for the june 4th incident there, its not censored. You’ve been eating up western propaganda for their failed color revolution.

What about the Tiananmen square massacre?

• Notes for the 30th anniversary of the Tiannment incident.
• It wasn’t a massacre of peaceful students, but a skirmish between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the pro-capitalist / free market reform movement. The protest movement, as evidenced by their own accounts, called for market liberalisation, and free market reforms, rallying around a replica of the statue of liberty. After the movement had been building in the square for seven weeks, unarmed soldiers were sent in to disperse the protesters, after which many soldiers were beaten to death, torched, and lynched. The New York Times death count went from 2600, to many thousands, to 8000, to tens of thousands. In reality only around ~200 (including soldiers) were killed or trampled, in smaller clashes outside the square. The on-scene New York Times reporter disavowed the article, especially about machine-gunning of protesters. A wikileaks cable from a US ambassador to the US state department, confirmed that no killings or machine-gunnings took place in the square.
• Latin American diplomat eyewitness account of June 3-4 events on Tiananmen Square wikileaks (PDF)
• There was a Spanish television crew that covered the entire Tiananmen Square incident as it unfolded. Their footage showed that there was no massacre. A few things worthy of pointing out - Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian, both student leaders of the Tiananmen protests, have been recorded as saying that they never saw anyone killed at the protests.
• The protest movement followed the line of “color revolutions”, in which the US tried to destabilize and create counter-revolutions in eastern Europe and Latin America after the fall of the USSR. The strategy was to stir division within and without, by inundating the media with news of massacres of “peaceful”, pro-capitalist / market reformers.
• The defeat of a counter revolution in China.
• Interviews from some of the student leaders.
• An account from a resident.
• Tiananmen Square “Massacre”, A Propaganda Hoax.
• The truth about the Tiananmen square protests