• Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    This is kinda just my response to people whining at me about how I refuse to budge on "NATO should not exist", fuck off and @ me when there are slave markets in Kiev, then we can start measuring the evils of NATO vs Russia. Fucking freaks trying to pretend that we should just ignore that America fucking starved and vaporized over a million Iraqis within the lifetime of most of us with absolutely no recourse or punishment for committing some of the most vile and cruel tortures ever documented.

    Literally just "oh well thats in the past we need to look to prevent future evils from Russia", these are the people who would want to arm the Nazi Wehrmacht to do Operation Barbossa 2.0 right after WW2, this is the kind of fucking people who put nazi generals in charge of NATO for decades, absolute fucking worms.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      would want to arm the Nazi Wehrmacht to do Operation Barbossa 2.0 right after WW2

      that is real and was pushed by Churchill, it was called Operation Unthinkable

  • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    How could Russia feel threatened by NATO?

    Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Yugoslavia : :agony-deep: :agony-deep: :agony-deep:

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      real baby-brained shit

      why did Russia, from the jump, ask for and repeatedly get guarantees that NATO would not expand and have that be broken every time

      these people don't pay attention and then assume everything they absorb from TV news is the sum total of reality

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      lmao what a dumbass for thinking nato exists :shrek-troll:

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Everything you've heard about that subreddit is only half as bad as the real thing

        • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          wow you weren't wrong, that is one potent cognitohazard. everything I dislike about the western left coalesced into one place :bordiga-despair:

      • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Literally had "socialism done left" videos showing up in my inbox hours after getting banned for being a "tankie" the last time I even bothered interacting there

      • Ploumeister [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        V*ush frequently posts memes from there and has it in his bio on twitter so yeah it’s a hellscape

  • red552 [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Don't you stupid tankies realize that stuff from the past has no effect on what's happening now

    • git [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      A copycat of /r/195, which was a left leaning meme sub (not by intention, just by virtue of people who discovered it). The only rule was that you had to post before leaving. It was shutdown because it was only intended to be used by a guy and his room mate, named after their dormitory room number and they got tired of moderating it (though they then deleted this explanation and claimed it was some sort of experiment). This lead to the creation of /r/196 which was supposed to be more of the same.

      Unfortunately /r/196 is full of trans-fetishists and libs. They’ll stamp out anything left of Bernie but allow crypto fash greentext posts then wonder why their sub is full of fash.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        /r/196 is full of trans-fetishists

        And people getting horny over underage femboys. I like a guy in a skirt as much as the next man, but check they're over 18 before you start the horny posting. Actually just don't horny post. Safe bet.

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/11/headlines/pace_of_civilian_killings_in_yemen_has_doubled_since_un_disbanded_monitoring_group