lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said “it doesn’t matter which instance you join.”

Oh it definitely mattered.

  • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Jumping straight to 9/11 conspiracy? Is that because you can’t back up any other argument?

    No one is saying the western powers are good, but that doesn’t matter. We were talking about three African military dictatorships, and how that too is not good.

    Specifically, in the not a good thing category, when a dictator seizes a wealth generating natural resource. Dictators tend to use slave labor in such cases, and then hoard the wealth for themselves and their key supporters.

    In the two years since General Tiani seized power, we’ve seen the economy crash, journalists disappeared, and half a dozen other types of human rights abuses.

    Mali has been worse since their military coup, with protesters gunned down in the street.

    And yet, people still stan for these dictators.

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      You jumped to drug cartels and ignored it. You’re saying what Western media, billionaire mouthpieces say. Protestors gunned down and reporters gunned down only matters in the global South. Please.

      Disengage

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        3 days ago

        I used the drug cartels as a contrasting example to the Sahel dictatorships. You’re the one who then went completely off-topic because you seem to want to stan for dictators.

        And now you want to run away because your fee fees hurt?

        Also, there are no western mouthpieces talking about the Sahel dictators, because the west really doesn’t care. In some ways that’s actually worse.