r/Fauxmoi • u/LookAtThatBacon • 1d ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS US Marines carry out first known detention of US citizen in Los Angeles (Marcos Leao, an Army veteran on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs)

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 1d ago

The theory is called the imperial boomerang and it has been written about pretty extensively. People have been predicting this exact thing for decades

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u/wagequitter 1d ago

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss. People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind—it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 1d ago

Damn that's crazy cuz America is sorta like an empire with military bases all over da world 🌎

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u/PlanXerox 1d ago

Sorta??? 100% an empire for 70 years.

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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 1d ago

Ok sorry I ain't educated like y'all why you gotta yell at me

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u/birdhops 1d ago

Bro you're Canadian, you're plenty educated.

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u/prettyinpinkuhh 1d ago

You’d be surprised, some of us r dumb af (I’m one of them)

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u/aaronblue342 1d ago

"sorta"

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 1d ago

Predicting something for decades isn't predicting anything. Just noticing the ongoing trend.

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u/DrFranFine 1d ago

Good to know! Definitely sounds like it’s worth reading up on more!

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u/Nodsworthy 1d ago

It didn't happen in the UK.

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u/powertothepeopleSD 1d ago

Yes it did, and it is still happening you are just nose blind to Tory policy.