• Lemmywinks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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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      10 hours ago

      “Criticizing Europe’s bullshit means you’re uncritically supporting Russia.”

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        No, the fact that OP posts about a dozen times per day in outspoken support of Russia is why I accused them of supporting Russia.

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      23 hours ago

      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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        23 hours ago

        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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          22 hours ago

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

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            21 hours ago

            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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              41 minutes ago

              So you’re too stupid to know what the argument you’re facing is and you’re too childish to listen

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                39 minutes ago

                I’m the one who’s comment is being replied to, so I’m the one that defined the argument. You’ve got some nerve calling other people stupid 😂

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                  Sorry how could I not have known you were defining other people’s arguments for them. It’s like I wasn’t paying attention to how you were acting this whole time.

                  I should have made that my criticism in the comment I wrote you nine minutes ago

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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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                20 hours ago

                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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                    🙄 I’m not any kind of liberal, I’m just not so black and white in my thinking that I believe Russia poses any kind of opposition to the global capitalist oligarchy (because they themselves are a capitalist oligarchy).

                    The fact of the matter is that both Russia and the US are working to further the aims of the billionaire technocracy that rules our planet, and I therefore consider shilling for either regime (or for the EU) to be despicable behaviour.

                    You guys consider yourselves communists but give support to capitalist states. Do better.

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      23 hours ago

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

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          21 hours ago

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

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            21 hours ago

            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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              22 hours ago

              Current homework:

              • understand what critical support means
              • understand the definition of imperialism
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                22 hours ago
                • 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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                  22 hours ago

                  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.

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

                    Who’s attacking straw men now? When did I ever insinuate that the US/EU/anyone else were in some way better than Russia? And what the fuck does skin colour have to do with any of this?