no dictators, no worries.
America is a dictatorship of money disguised as a democracy, and the other nations on that map are vassal states that align with America on almost all foreign policy and military issues. They’re a gang of thugs and looters who have colonized and exploited the rest of the world for centuries and they’re still doing it now, to the tune of over $10 trillion a year in net extraction from the global south.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X
Our results show that in 2015 the North net appropriated from the South 12 billion tons of embodied raw material equivalents, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour, worth $10.8 trillion in Northern prices – enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Over the whole period, drain from the South totalled $242 trillion (constant 2010 USD). This drain represents a significant windfall for the global North, equivalent to a quarter of Northern GDP.
“no dictators”
yeah,
these are the democracies that invaded Iraq/Libya to install a democracy.
I keep having to remind myself how much good it did to the people of Iraq/Libya.
Yeah, Iraqis miss saddam so much don’t they? Especially the Kurds.
I’m sure they don’t miss the Americans.
and we all remember what a paradise those countries were. man, that time gadaffis son killed a waiter because he spilled soup. you miss him?
Libya now has open-air slave markets and has been described as a humanitarian disaster.
remember the black dude who gets shot for talking back in America ? anecdotes don’t prove a general point.
btw Libya was doing better under Gaddafi
country did better before war than after.
amazing
was that the reason for those arab springs?
was at least the weapon to kill gadaffi american so you can blame the west?
fuck hamas.
I don’t know about US but EU has a bunch of news agencies that are fairly credible. Some local smaller ones don’t have a reason not to be.
The international community in the picture is all that matters. Change the size of the countries in the map by the size of their economies and that’s all that matters. Change it by the factor of their diplomatic influence and the change would be even greater.
The majority of the world doesn’t matter bc no money :(
What a tone deaf world view.
If you ever talk about an international community, these are the only countries that actually COMMUNE. Almost all the rest are too involved with themselves to have a diplomatic strategy beyond their narrow short-term self interest. That’s also why that’s the only international community that matters. That’s not a tone deaf world view, that’s the reality.
So organizations like the Arab League don’t exist?
They exist, many organizations exist, but they are only a collection of countries each looking for its own short sighted benefits.
Oh yeah, the U.S., UK, etc. never do that.
Sure they do, but I’m not into nitpicking specific situations or argue about edge cases.
They don’t really like each other, mostly they see themselves as competitors and their treaties are situational, worth nothing except in the best of times when everything is going well for everyone.
Edge cases? Are you serious? Since when does the U.S. give a shit about anyone but the U.S.?
And saying that the U.S. respects its treaties shows a laughable ignorance of history.
No, these are the only countries that destabilised entire continents to get what they wanted in the last few centuries and now they wash their hands off of them. The countries that are left behind are still trying to clean the shit up the West has created.
Idk, I feel like Al Jazeera gets quite a bit of visibility and has a good amount of credibility, but Qatar isn’t on this map.
Credibility? It’s Qatari state media
It is, so you definitely want to keep that in mind when consuming their content. On the flipside, they have access to sources in the Middle East that your big mainstream western media organizations can only dream about, so you don’t want to ignore them entirely either. There are ways to be smart about it.
I like to call this “The Commonwealth and Friends”
What do you think “international” means?
New Zealand is happy to be included
!mapsWithNZ
Basically democracies. It is kind of difficult to consider non-democratic dictators like Putin or Kim Jong-un as representatives of some kind of “community”.
Imma be real with you chief none of these are democracy
Just to be clear, you don’t understand what that means
You know the vast majority of south and central americas are democracies too, right?
Of course. I am not going to defend the particular choice of countries in that picture. Where is South Korea, for example? However. Democracy is greater than just democratic election. Fascists in Germany also come to power in a free democratic election, does not make Nazi Germany a democratic country.
Also a not-insignificant amount of Asia, Africa, and Pacific islands.
South America just isn’t really too involved in international politics in general, the whole region is neutral in almost all conflicts since very few directly affect them
They are involved in their own politics, just like the first world only cares about what happens to the first world.
Israel confirmed first world…?
yeah,
these are the democracies that invaded Iraq/Libya to install a democracy.
I keep having to remind myself how much good it did to the people of Iraq/Libya.
What an odd coincidence that primarily white, English-speaking countries have democracy.
Nothing odd about it. There are historical reasons for that. But English speaking? You do know that there are many countries in EU?
I think you missed my sarcasm. Also, I said “primarily”.
Even as primarily, this is false statement. And even there, there are historical reasons.
Just so we’re clear, you can think of two missing countries?
Almost like news written in english tends to focus on english-speaking countries and their allies
The obvious context of this meme is articles that express the “consensus opinion of the international community” on some foreign issue. Like “international community condemns antisemetic criticism of Israel.” Or “international community condemns Niger coup, calls for original government to be reinstated so France can keep buying cheap Uranium from the second poorest country on the planet.”
oh yeah that must be it.
Congrats to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia for making the cut
It seems like media is controlled by a small number of people, not sure if they have anything in common.
Where spreading certain types of news, while excluding other viewpoints (and trying to smear the rest), will help keep them in power…
Not sure though, haha…
I’m assuming you meant to put a /s yeah?
Their commonality is their money and conspiring to get more by any means.
No it’s because the rest of the world is ruled by maniac dictators and poorly educated populations. Deny it fervently and all you proof is to be putinsbiatch
you dropped /s
Much is known of the causes of certain things happening around the world.
By looking at leaked documents and reporting from know journalists that live in many different countries.
I think your comment is /s, but not sure, hahaha
Hope we all keep learning and have a great day!
Why would I be sarcastic about it? It sure isn’t a joke.
Most all of countries in Africa and South America and a lot in Asia and all of ME is ruled by people that do not have the best intentions nor best interests for their people. De facto dictators.
The worse is they call themselves left wing OR right and they the same slave of some big insurance companies and the plaything of hedgefunds. Us & Europe aren’t different, just richer.
It seems like media is controlled by a small number of people, not sure if they have anything in common.
They do.
They’re capital owners.
Yes, I agree.
May be I should have added “…” or made it more clear, that yes they do share things in common.
My fault on that end, thanks for pointing it out!
Normally when people talk about a “small cabal of elites ruling the world” it’s a dogwhistle for “the jews”.
That is a thing to watch out for… Thanks for pointing it out!
I was talking about 99% vs. 1% protests that were huge a while ago.
Framing working class vs. wealthy class.
Just to reiterate - if thinly veiled antisemitism wasn’t your intent, you may want to phrase your subtle implications differently in the future.
Ah, another thing ro watch out for. Thanks for letting me know!
Remember 99% vs. 1% protests a while ago, they were pretty big.
Billionaires and wealthy class are the groups most people think about.
Working class vs. wealthy class
edit: wording and topic
I get it and apologize for my tone. I wasn’t yet convinced at that point that it wasn’t subtly veiled anti-semitism. Sorry that my internet cynicism sometimes runs high. 🙂
Thank you for the explaination!
Yes, we all can get too much into cynicism when talking in the interwebs!
Have a great day and thanks again!
You as well!
