• theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Inb4, the tankies come crawling from the woodwork to claim how this will be bad for the rest of the world, and we should let Russia conquer Ukraine in the name of “peace.”

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      6 months ago

      It sure is strange how they’ll support Russia, despite being a crony capitalist state, on account of the Soviet union calling itself communist and Russia being a post-Soviet successor state, but not Ukraine, even though that’s also a post-Soviet state.

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        6 months ago

        If they were using reason, they wouldn’t be fucking tankies to start with.

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        6 months ago

        Tankies are just fascists who like the color red.

        When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”.

        -M. Bakunin

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        China is also a crony capitalist state - they don’t exactly distribute the wealth obtained from leasing public land and operating businesses.

        They and Russia share a goal - destabilizing the west, especially the US, to gain geopolitical importance and to stifle calls for democracy and human rights.

        Ukraine isn’t on their team there.

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        6 months ago

        So you managed to post the propaganda with high visibility, under the guise of being against it. Well done!

          • DekesEnormous@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Actually, you found an idiot that didn’t read the sentence that precedes the image you shared. I deserve the downvotes, because it is me who stinks

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              6 months ago

              Lol, it’s cool, dude. I should’ve spaced it out more. Respect for owning up to your mistake.

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                6 months ago

                If I gave your post a second glance instead of jumping straight to being snarky I could have avoided looking like an asshat.

                It beats the alternative of internet strangers thinking that I’m a fascist, besides to err is human

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              6 months ago

              Or you found the sane person, who can see through a posting of Russian propaganda under the guise of being against it.

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      6 months ago

      Inb4, the tankies

      But why? Why inb4?
      This entire post is now derailed to be about tankies and nothing about the issue, which is great news for Ukraine and Europe, and for USA too.

      Seems to me your post is just about the perfect tankie/Russian Propaganda post to derail the debate. Maybe you think it’s clever IDK? But IMO it’s idiotic noise that doesn’t add anything.

      • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        If you took at my post history it would actually say the opposite, but nice try, though. You could’ve started your own comment thread if it was such an issue for you.