I made the mistake of balking at some particularly unhinged Ukraine/Russia rhetoric offline yesterday and got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover and I was even suspected of being pro-Israel and apparently a nazbol Aimee Therese follower or something
I'm not even invested in this shit, I just find the insane saber-rattling and warmongering unsettling
When someone tells you Putler's going to invade Estonia, Poland and Finland for Lebensraum next if he's not stopped in Ukraine, just nod your head solemnly
A little while ago my friend and I were talking and he was despairing of the left's chances generally because of us politics horserace stuff. I pointed out that China is doing pretty great and he hit me with "authoritarianism."
But we've both been to China so I just asked him if it seemed authoritarian when he was there and he said no.