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Is saying obvious American proxies doing things for America denying whole people's their agency? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by SkingradGuard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I'm wondering what our take on this is.

Here's an example on libsky . It reads as genuinely frustrated. However I've seen this same line trotted out by NAFO about Ukraine and how it's impossible it's being directed by the US Government, because people have agency (making it Russian propaganda/"shallow analysis").

I feel like there's a small point being made, obviously not all groups funded by America/American proxies are incapable of acting alone.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

First of all, agency isn't a get out of jail for free card. Fascists need to have their human agency stripped from them and rightfully so. Second of all, "the people of Syria," whatever the hell that means, aren't really celebrating either. Most Syrians seem to just be keeping a low profile and just praying that the new people in charge won't make their lives a living hell. It really has more in common with a medieval warlord and his medieval army pushing out another medieval warlord from the fiefdom with the peasantry hoping that the rampaging army doesn't loot too much of their shit and steal too much of their livestock.