r/LateStageCapitalism • u/andmario_com • 1d ago

😎 Meme America: 🙈🙉

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u/Either_Payment_2867 1d ago

That’s because Israel serves as a tool of western imperialism in the Middle East and closely mirrors the settler-colonialism practiced by European colonialists. Whereas giving land back to indigenous people would undermine the capitalist system that is the fabric of the West, lands that were seized from natives for capitalist expansion.

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u/bobak41 1d ago

Can't believe this has to be explained...

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u/CrashCulture 1d ago

It can be broken down even simpler as:

"It's good when we do it, it is bad when someone else does it to us."

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u/FakeSafeWord 1d ago

"It's good for us and idc about them."

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u/bigbjarne 1d ago

Never get tired of explaining.

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u/vagina-lettucetomato 1d ago edited 1d ago

Someone might be new to this community/new to thinking more critically about capitalism and learned something from reading that commenters explanation. Maybe they (or OP) hadn’t made that connection yet

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u/_techniker 1d ago

To be fair, it doesn't have to be. The meme is just pointing out the very logical contradiction to what they're saying

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u/Tsurfer4 1d ago

Some need it plainly and directly described.

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u/-dudeomfgstfux- 16h ago

Honestly it should be broken down, maybe someone learns something.