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[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah it won't work. We don't have editorial control there and any based commie views will get assimilated and mutilated beyond recognition into pro-NATO final outcomes. If we somehow did take over control of NATOpedia through some kind of admin coup (the only way our changes would stick) then the vaushites and radlibs will say "this is a tankie site now" and find another western propaganda slop tube to suck on. They are chauvinists, they like the taste of the western slopaganda - they will seek it out. They aren't reactionary imperialists because they read some imperialist media, it's the other way around. They are imperialists and they seek out slop to confirm their views.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paraphrasing you mean? I've read it in the past, but the general sentiment is widespread and true. Americans, by in large, benefit from imperialism and like it. They aren't "duped" into being imperialists, it's in their material interest to be imperialists. If anything, our task is to "dupe" them into being socialists because their quality of life is gonna take a short term hit unless they are poor as hell and in the bottom quartile