volodya_ilich @ volodya_ilich @lemm.ee

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Russia is so incompetent that it fails at killing more civilians than trained personnel? Is that the argument?

Agreed, but tanks in Moscow aren't the solution

Saying that Russia is on a downward spiral towards fascism is defending it?

My point isn't that you should be defending Russia or China, my point is that there's a very disproportionate amount of criticism of Russia/China compared to the US in the west, especially flagrant if we compare how actually harmful each of these is.

Wasn't the US supporting a genocide until like a month ago? Is this question really only popping right now in your head?

Which, seeing the treatment Ukraine is getting by the US, I assume you believe it's a bad thing right? Right?

Fuck, everyone has been giving us communists shit for the past 8 decades for explaining this is the exact way that imperialist powers operate in their colonies. Maybe we all will finally understand now that the Ukraine war was never a conflict of Russian expansionism vs Ukrainian national defence, but an imperialist proxy war between US and Russia?

Being a US enemy is bad. Being a US ally is deadly

One side wants to kill them all

Not that I like fascist Putin, but isn't the civilian casualty rate in Ukraine extremely low to other conflicts we've seen recently like the genocide in Gaza or the invasion of Iraq?

Odds are that Putin wants all of Ukraine

That doesn't make any sense. Russia knows it can't control Ukrainian-majority areas in any meaningful way. This war isn't a war of annexation and expansionism, it's a proxy war between Russia and the US in which Russia is showing its neighbouring countries that it won't simply allow its influence sphere to disintegrate.

Negotiations without Kyiv’s seat at the table?

Really makes one question the narrative of the defensive war in favour of the proxy war between Russia and US doesn't it?

As a Hexbear user, your comment is really racist and ableist, erase that shit and apologise

"Tankie instances" don't tolerate transphobia or western exceptionalism or Zionism. Lib instances don't tolerate questioning of US State Department propaganda (been banned from many comms for questioning the validity of Wikipedia articles on geopolitically charged topics) but will tolerate Zionism (downvoted but not banned). I'd rather have the former

Arguing that either China or Russia suck comparably as much as the US as current things stand is crazy. Most criticism of China is made-up anticommunist propaganda, criticism of Russia is often coated in russophobic tropes originating in Nazism and highly chauvinistic in nature (yes, Russia is on a downwards spiral of concerning fascist trends in government, but so is the entire west, literal Sieg Heil in US president inauguration and fascist parties in Germany and Austria).

Westerners focusing their criticism on countries doing a fraction of the evil their own countries do is simple western exceptionalism and nationalism. Neither China nor Russia have anything in their recent history remotely comparable to the genocide in Gaza, the invasion of Iraq, the carpet bombing of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Korea, the history of coups and support of fascist regimes, and the history of colonialism of the west.

Lemmy.ml is a lemmy community primarily composed of socialists. Because socialists are highly critical of racist behaviour, white supremacist tropes, US exceptionalism/western chauvinism, imperialist attitudes (many of which bleed in well-meaning liberals), and capitalist countries, they don't tolerate such things in their community and are very critical when they see such things in other communities, which is often met with distrust and dislike because nobody enjoys being confronted. .ml are very confrontational and they get met with confrontation. There are also some legit problems with a few moderators expressing transphobic beliefs, which is why i personally choose hexbear as my main community. Kinda sad that people here have such a red scare as if it were communists and not fascists in governments all over the western world right now and increasingly so.

Rent free in your brains, gahdaym

I imagine that less-determined redditors will take one look at this place, see a liberal-bashing post, and then immediately fuck off

Good. The last thing we need is more stormfront brainrot.

Also, quite the ironic comment.

It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say

Please tell me what alternative there was for these "cut up countries". If the USSR hadn't established military presence in these countries, they'd just have been invaded by the Nazis. Maybe you expect the Soviet Union, after being ignored for a decade of mutual defense negotiations, to selflessly send its people to die for the countries that refused a military alliance? Like literally, what was the alternative here

Everyone except America :)

Tends to happen when there's war happening in another continent

That still only counts as one!

That there's not a UI showing you the possible options, there's just a black screen and online documentation, so people don't even know what to look for