• noride@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s always so strange to me that we don’t see the same bombastic support from the tankies over news like this, surely this is another genius move which underscores the futility of Western sanctions, right? Another 5d chess move to bring Ukraine to it’s knees, or dismantle the petrodollar, surely? 🙃

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      1 year ago

      you are aware russia hasnt been socialist for decades right?

      russia is a failed proto-fascist state.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, they’re aware. They’re also aware that ML types will support Russia regardless, because no evil is too great so long as it even mildly inconveniences the West.

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          thats because we cant compare the evil of the west with russia.

          further entrenching US power is really bad for everyone not on the west.

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            1 year ago

            Government controlled oligarchary

            failed proto-fascist state

            The USSR was both of those, you can say it was socialist under Lenin if you want but it was just a corporation trying to run everything

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      1 year ago

      Hard for them to respond after they were all banned from Lemmy.world. Really easy to be smug when you have no opposition lol.

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        1 year ago

        In case people are unaware, limmy.world defederated from the two major Tanky instances (Lemmygrad for Russian supporters and Hexbear for Chinese supporters). I’m not really sure why the above comment is downvoted. It’s basically correct, though using the wrong terms.

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            1 year ago

            .ml is much more general leftist than tankie imo. There’s plenty of talkies on there, but also many non-tankies. Definitely still a much higher rate than irl tho.

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          1 year ago

          Thanks for the background. I knew there was some defederation going on but didn’t realize it was so political. Somewhat disappointing tbh

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      1 year ago

      You think the kids that sat at the back of the classroom, saying learning math is a waste of time because they’ll never need to use it, can form an opinion on this? They see the words “interest rate” and decide this news is completely irrelevant because they can’t understand it.

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      1 year ago

      Bro people is with the jews now, they provide more impactful videos