Spineless Australia can't protect their own citizens from the US but they still delude themselves into thinking that they're partners with America, not a lapdog.
I'm staying on topic. I am demonstrating how the American occupational forces handed out harsher punishments and consequences than the Taliban did, yet couldn't curb opium production. Ergo, the Americans were never interested in curbing opium production.
Three million dead due to the Afghanistan war alone wasn't brutal enough for you?The systematic, institutional rape and torture of men, women, and children in Abu Ghraib was more brutal than anything defined in Sharia law but we still pretend that the occupation was clean.
The West has been doing that for the past year and a half already. It's not like putting undertrained Ukranian pilots in F-22s against Russian SAMs will affect the outcome of the war drastically.
Hawaii is a colonial project and isn't respected by the federal court circuits in the same manner that continental states are. It's closer to Guam and Puerto Rico than other states in that it carries disproportionate financial and military burdens, including the effects from the Jones act for example.
America has been doing this dance for the past 200 years. Too many Germans, Irish, Italians, etc will make white America not white anymore was the old tune and I'm done waiting for Americans to realize that race is a social construct.
It was just a cute factoid that I noted, so I didn't look further into the claims.
Your theory could be correct. Another reason I suspect is that due to racial biases and different job market situation arising from the urban/rural divide, black Americans are forced to be more literate in order to survive compared to the average white American.
Your assessment is probably closer to the truth. 54% of American adults have a literacy below sixth grade level link and some of the people you've met probably are considered barely literate yet counts towards the 79%.
A curious statistic I've found while reading up on this is that 77% of African Americans have moderate or high reading proficiency while only 65% of white Americans qualify as such. A statistic that you'll never see racists mention (and libs for those that somehow fit outside the venn diagram)
You are stunningly correct. The matter and energy on Earth never disappears, and we're converting them into greenhouse gases as fast as we can. I am quite enjoying an abundance of heat. Who said that capitalists don't share?
Communists don't have a monopoly on good deeds. We are trying to make a systematic change while they are looking to make a difference on a individual level.
Volunteer with them and help out. People who are kind are more receptive towards our ideals in my experience, and not everyone has to be part of the vanguard.
I agree with your material analysis of the situation, but not of the solution.
Petitioning and protesting against western governments have been shown to be ineffective time and time again. It's a waste of time and effort. The realistic conclusion to the dragged out war comes after a decade or so when a power broker (probably China) gets them to agree to a ceasefire as it was the case in Yemen.
I'm not trying to be defeatist, but there is nothing that comrades can do to affect the outcome of the situation in my assessment.
Spineless Australia can't protect their own citizens from the US but they still delude themselves into thinking that they're partners with America, not a lapdog.