• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Every state use violence to sustain itself, not sure why you think this is a particularly interesting own. Russia is a Liberal capitalist state under attack from the global hegemonic empire and its proxies. Just like Gadaffi's Libya was, or Syria's Assad, or Sadam's Iraq. In all these cases, we oppose the American empire in it's imperialism. You cannot extend the same courtesy to Russia because your brain has been poisoned by 7 years of russiagate hysteria from liberals and 100 years of anti-communist red scare propaganda in your culture

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Russia should achieve victory in this war against imperialists. We can criticize Russia's domestic and internal policies, but geopolitically they are in the right. Seems you have a hard time getting onboard with even critical support against your empire

          • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            We can, and should, criticize Russia's very bad domestic policies. But what does that have to do with me asking for any evidence of Nazis on the Russian side? Still waiting for any evidence btw.

              • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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                1 year ago

                Maybe. I've just seen, for over a year now, people use the allegation that wagner were nazis to "bothsides" the issue of ukraine being full of nazi military units; but with no proof, it's always just asserted to be true. It's very annoying. Especially given the recent even greater uptick in libs embracing nazism.

                • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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                  1 year ago

                  My take mostly has to do with me assuming most people (of any nationality) who volunteer for military service (for any nation) are inherently fascistic.

                  I feel like I just got beat up in a back alley because I got the password wrong.

                  • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    I'm sorry that you feel that way, that isn't my intention here. I don't think people of any nationality are inherently fascistic. I do think that the Ukrainian state is currently, in fact, a Nazi state, that it has openly Nazi military units, etc. Liberals who support Ukraine like to excuse this fact by alleging that Wagner are also Nazis, so there are Nazis on bothsides (except Russia is actually worse, and so on and so on). The person I was responding to deployed this standard lib bullshit. So I asked for proof that there were Nazis on the Russian side. That wasn't bait. I literally want people to either provide that proof, or to shut the fuck up about their being "Nazis on both sides." I think anybody talking about "Nazis on both sides" should be banned for being a Nazi apologist (which is what they are doing), unless they provide some proof that that's actually true.