I will never forget that piece of shit Matthew Miller shedding a tear for the poor children of Ukraine during the Russian Invasion and then shrugging and effectively saying " its war stuff happens" when confronted with the horrific massacre of children in Gaza by the Zionist regime.
The Empire is bipartisan.
this whole community is pure liberal rage bait isn’t it? I am not complaining but you guys really do like to trigger
We’re gonna start cracking down on the rage-bait posting a little bit.
Honestly a bit of bait is good. I have enjoyed reading the discussions that emerged in some of those threads. I see this post for what it is: bait. You could make less provocative posts but even then some people just want to read it as tankie propaganda.
Maybe we should create a community called “tankie memes” for when you do want to go all out and trigger people
Some of the bait can be nice, but in my opinion I think we lean too far into the bait and too far into “dunking.” This isn’t a condemnation based on civility politics, but a rational desire to focus on higher quality posts and comments for onlookers. Being as edgy as possible can spark constructive conversation in the comments, but constructive conversation can also happen with good agitprop that has a convincing argument within the meme itself.
Seems to mostly be jank doing it for the rage bait, pre-jank it was definitely more pro-communist but less rage bait focused. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not how I would do it either.
i’ve had the same thought before. lol
lemmy need reactions for things this lit
Removed by mod
Ukraine got couped by the US in 2014, the current government is completely illegitimate, Russia would be doing them a favor by taking over and chasing us out
Removed by mod
I’m sure the relatives of the innocent civilian victims will agree with you and thank Putin for bombing them.
Cool story
Badass bro. Nothing screams “I don’t care” like posting this 😂😂
I’m sure the relatives of the 14,000 people killed by Ukranian nazis before Russia entered the war would love to hear your justifications for it.
Justifications? Every kill is bad wtf are u even talking about 😂😂😂
“Every kill is bad I just happen to only equivocate and make excuses when it’s Russian people dying”
Russia doesn’t bomb civilians unlike ukraine.
And it saved a lot of innocent civilian victims from being ethnic cleansed.
As they had been trying to do since the 2014 coup.
But again the same double standards, the west didn’t really care about what their proxy nazi’s did to them.They killed civilians. I have a friend who has a relative killed.
These things happen in war unfortunately.
When there are attacks with 500+ of drones and many missiles per day with only a handful of civilian casualties it’s pretty clear that they are not ‘targeting civilians and wanting to make as many casualties as possible’ as the western propaganda claim.
Unlike ukrainians that deliberately target civilian infrastructure, from schools to hospitals.I don’t think the main target is civilians, I think they have better targets (strategically speaking), you are right in this
Fuck you for trash talking Ukraine and Palestine. It’s shitty to use the mass suffering of millions for internet points.
Also, elite rage bait, I’ve got the grimble grumbles now.
Wait how is he trash talking Palestine? This meme is criticizing how military actions of the Palestinian resistance are portrayed in the media. It’s clearly a pro-palestinian meme.
It reduces the horrors of conflict down to binary of ‘my team good, your team bad’ which I get us the point but it’s unfair (imo) to equate the actions of oppressed/attacked states to the massively powerful imperial states. Maybe my interpretation is fucked up but my first glance at this meme triggered my bleeding heart.
Right, but how does it trash talk Palestine though?
In the same way it does Ukraine
So you didn’t get the meme.
I thought the meme implies an inverse and was deeper than just west bashing. Mb.
What did you think it implied?
fuck ukraine
LOL don’t think you got it.
Top tier meme lumping Russia with Palestine
In my opinion, war is always full of crime. You can have crime without war, but you can’t have war without crime. If by “war crime” you mean “Geneva convention”, nobody follows that, either.
The winner prosecutes the loser, no exceptions.
This is the rhetoric western imperialists use to normalise their atrocities
Every time I see such memes, I remind myself that lemmy.ml is blocked in:
-
China (including Hong Kong)
-
Iran
-
North Korea
It is currently unblocked in:
-
The United States
-
Israel (and Palestine)
-
Ukraine
-
EU
-
Pretty much the rest of the world
-
Russia
Though I worry about Russia, as they’ve already blocked Bluesky and at least one part of the fediverse: https://lemmy.world/post/14156170
(And FYI I checked these regions myself, with a VPN, and then when another external tool, just now).
Because blocking web sites is worse than bombing civilians for decades, right?
Don’t really see how that matters.
Don’t really see how that matters.
In other words, it’s… unfortunate, but necessary?
No?
Cool story
Check yourself. Go to any IP tester or http resolver, or try your own VPN.
I browsed lemmy.ml plenty in China. Not sure what you’re on about.
Because lemmy.ml federates with the broader Lemmyverse. So if instances like .world is blocked, that same content is visible on .ml so it’s blocked too.
Defederate from us and we might have a chance.
As of this post, Lemmy.world is not blocked in China. Neither is piefed.social.
But lemmy.ml is blocked in China.
What is your point?
In response to:
Because lemmy.ml federates with the broader Lemmyverse. So if instances like .world is blocked, that same content is visible on .ml so it’s blocked too. Defederate from us and we might have a chance.
lemmy.ml was not blocked because of lemmy.world. Or other federated instances, as far as I can tell through testing a few.
.ml was blocked because the .ml domain was blocked due to it being a free domain mostly used for spam (although I’m sure some groups/sites have petitioned and had their non spam sites unblocked). Also things being blocked by the firewall doesn’t really mean much on a personal level when we all have a VPN. You clearly don’t understand the purpose of the firewall.
My question is why bring it up in the first place?
Liberals love this little factoid because it makes China seem “authoritarian” and therefore “bad” when in reality you can just use a VPN and do whatever you want. it’s (one of the ways) also how I get free stuff in the USA and I hate computers you just gotta do a tiny tiny bit of research but I’ve seen in China it’s like an open secret you could prob just get some stranger to tell you how
Yep, or they think it’s ironic that a pro-China instance is blocked in China. The problem is the Mali domain, not an ideological difference.
Interesting, TIL.
now do the Russian channels that are blocked in the west.
Like what? RT is not blocked for me; I read an article from there once in awhile. Neither is the Russian government website or anything else I can think to test.
Well it is for me in Europe, same as plenty of other channels.
I guess Big Brother decided for us that we can only get one narrative.
-
