this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
802 points (95.5% liked)

US Authoritarianism

811 readers
462 users here now

Hello, I am researching American crimes against humanity. . This space so far has been most strongly for memes, and that's fine.

There's other groups and you are welcome to add to them. USAuthoritarianism Linktree

See Also, my website. USAuthoritarianism.com be advised at time of writing it is basically just a donate link

Cool People: [email protected]

founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This looks like Russian/Chinese propaganda or just lazily photoshopped image.

Actual map of US military bases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations#/media/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.

Americans: "Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we're a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don't care about French elections, why would they care about American?"

[–] hark 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Americans may be surprised to find that foreigners actually don't pay as much attention to US elections as they think. Even many people in the US don't care, they're just inundated with media coverage of it. At most about 66% of eligible voters even vote and the people that do vote aren't necessarily informed. You may have seen interviews with undecided voters. They turn up to vote but haven't necessarily put much thought into it.

As an aside, I find it funny when Americans scream about other countries empire building and carrying out provocative military exercises when the US has so many military bases everywhere. You don't need to officially annex land to control it, that's old style thinking.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dear Earth,

The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.

Zero fucks about climate change.

Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.

I apologize.

I wish y'all the best.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (8 children)
load more comments (8 replies)
[–] samus12345 22 points 1 day ago

Americans: Why don't foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?

[–] theunknownmuncher 82 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

American exceptionalism is ingrained so deep in most people here that they would never even consider or doubt why the world pays attention to them, just: "Duh of course they do, because we're America!"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Correct. I think the entire premise that an American would question this idea is an indication that the meme was made by somebody from a country with one of these pins in it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this mindset. I am myself an American making this observation with a sense of shame and mild horror.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The US doesn't have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?

[–] alphanerd4 13 points 1 day ago

Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them

[–] affiliate 6 points 1 day ago

take note canadians

[–] anon6789 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This site says there are 9. 3 Army, 3 Air Force, 3 Coast Guard.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites

Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.

[–] kerrypacker 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah the Aussie presence is in completely the wrong spots too. It's bullshit.

[–] mlg 6 points 1 day ago

Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Imagine if China had bases like that

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] anon6789 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My first thought was to wonder if we'll try to buy Greenland again.

Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already...

Sorry, World. 😑

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] egrets 15 points 2 days ago

Comparisons here on Wikipedia, sometimes on the linked page.

load more comments
view more: next ›