• Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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    Putin came to power in… 1997? So almost 30 years. In that time, the invasion of Ukraine is I think only the second or third time Russia has attacked another country? The other two are Chechnya and Georgia IIRC, and both of those were quite a bit complicated (and the former was only like a few days).

    Impressive… very nice… now let’s see America’s card.

    Seriously, America is poised to attack as many countries just in the first half of 2026 as Putin has in nearly 30 years.

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    The US only overthrew a few european governments (Italy, Greece, Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Georgia). Not enough for them to care.

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      Yugoslavia

      FYI literally nobody in ex-Yugoslavia believes this, not even the most hard-line “yugonostalgic” leftists.

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    Who in sweet crystallized Christ fuck is telling you the US isn’t screwing the globe over???

    Like, as a USian I know and hate what this country is doing and at least here I haven’t seen anyone really claim otherwise. Maybe in Zionist havens like major social media but you’re posting to a tiny choir here.

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    You’re aware that the Soviet Union doesn’t exist any more, right? Like, the Berlin Wall came down 35 years ago, so when you uncritically defend Russia you are actually defending a hyper-capitalist oligarchy with the same economic system as the EU and the US, and not a “communist” opposition to that system (not say the USSR was ever actually communist either).

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      You’re aware that everyone is aware of that, right? If you’re going to argue with a straw man, at least build a better straw man.

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        Look at the OPs post history, they post constantly in support of Russia, China and North Korea, as though Russia is in some way ideologically aligned with the other two.

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          They aren’t ideologically aligned (at least for the most part), but they’re geopolitically aligned by circumstance.

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            Sure, but that’s basically irrelevant to the point being made in OP’s memes.

            Also, there is no ‘for the most part’. Geopolitical alliances notwithstanding, they are in no way ideologically aligned: I’ll say it once more for the people with their fingers in their ears, “Russia is not a socialist state, and hasn’t been for over three decades!”

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              It is relevant, though. They’re geopolitically aligned with China and are the junior partner. It’s ridiculous to think that they’re the biggest threat to world peace

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                I’ve spelled it out twice now, if you honestly still don’t understand I don’t think there’s anything I can say that will make it clear to you…

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                  No, I don’t understand, because I’m not a demagogue. I know for a fact that most liberals think we’re all demagogues.

                  Guess where they got it from: the liberals themselves made it up to smear us.

                  You fell for your own propaganda. You can’t successfully talk to us because you operate off of flawed assumptions.

                  You played yourself.

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      Ask GPT what “critical support” means, spoiler: it’s not double damage support.

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          “Critical thought” is not how anyone learns what words mean.

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            I’m already aware of what the words mean, it was a jab at the way that relying on chatbots for information damages people’s ability to think.

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              Current homework:

              • understand what critical support means
              • understand the definition of imperialism
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                • I actually accused OP of uncritical support (which means supporting someone/something without any criticism).

                • Russia is an imperialist state. The fact that other states are also imperialists doesn’t change this fact in any way.

                Current homework:

                • Ask yourself why you are jumping to the defense of someone who constantly shills for an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.
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                  I actually accused OP of uncritical support (which means supporting someone/something without any criticism).

                  No you attacked a straw man.

                  Russia is an imperialist state. The fact that other states are also imperialists doesn’t change this fact in any way.

                  No you don’t know what imperialism is and yes Russian is a capitalist hellscape(thank you USA) but it’s not imperialist. Redo your homework

                  Additional homework:

                  • research the multiples definitions of authoritarian and answer how any definition is any different than us-foreign-policy

                  Ask yourself why you are jumping to the defense of someone who constantly shills for an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.

                  Sometimes OP post something relevant or correct but people hit themselves in confusion after too much critical damage thinking.