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  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoLemmy@lemmy.mlCrossposting improvements
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    I’m starting to get annoyed by seeing the same post 4 or 5 times in a row. I sort by New and since the posting happens concurrently, they just spam my feed with a page of identical posts.

    lemmy-ui has a front page de-duplicator that combines cross-posted links (preferring the first one, but showing the others in a single text line) so you don’t see them multiple times in the feed. Any other front end could add this, the code freely available for anyone to use.

    so it would be necessary to aggregation crosspost comments, interleaving them under the single, unique, unfiltered post.

    lemmy’s GetPostResponse contains a list of crossposts, and it’s up to UI’s if they want to try to combine comments from those (by calling getcomments), in whatever way they’d like. In lemmy-ui we’ve chosen to link the posts at the top rather than combine comment threads.



  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlNever ask
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    One is that Palestinians are a semitic peoples, while the settlers are nearly all euro-amerikkkan origin. So even by Israel’s old testament blood quantum calculus, they have much less claim to the land than the indigenous peoples do.









  • There’s certainly a lot after that, but this Smedley Butler quote is from 1935:

    I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

    And of course there’s the native american genocide, unparalleled in history, which mostly took place in the 1800s.


  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlUS invasion of...
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    You dronies are so transparent. You only come out to decry X country as soon as the US or its vassals attacks it. Then its all both sides bad.

    No country is perfect, but Iran is doing what very few countries are brave enough to do rn, and defending themselves from the child-killing scourge of the middle east.

    Even if you oppose Iran’s sovereignty or its theocracy, you’ll have to admit that Iran’s theocracy does far less harm than any given western country does.












  • Settler colonialism a form of imperialism (theft of land, labor and natural resources of a weaker country by a stronger one), where the stronger country sets up a military garrison, and evicts or enslaves the local population. This is border conflict to halt the ever-eastward march of NATO.

    The accusations of “russifying the ukrainian language” is pure projection; its the banderites who (with NATO help, Obama bragged about this one) couped Ukraine in 2014 (and who were killing thousands of civilians in the donbass) that have been attempting to make spoken russian illegal in the country. They’ve also been reviving nazi collaborators and building monuments to them as fast as they can.

    It was the Bolsheviks (Stalin especially) who strongly supported the creation of a Ukrainian state, as it had a distinct national, lingual, and cultural character, while the western nations were opposed to Ukrainian sovereignty (The fascist dictatorhips of the 30s were essentially at war with all slavic peoples). Modern Russia wants to preserve Ukraine as a buffer state (as it was before 2014). There are many ppl more knowledgeable on lemmygrad and hexbear, that could give you a long background on this conflict.

    Modern imperialism (usually) takes a different form from classical colonialism, but even with that definition, Russia can’t be called imperialist as it fits none of the traits.