*funder, not founder, or Azov.

      • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago
        :mlk-yes:

        I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negroes’ great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s “Counciler” or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          Like Plato said, the absence of pain is not equal to pleasure.

  • MasterShakeVoice [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    Note that he ran as the anti-corruption candidate, the not-a-nazi candidate and the peace candidate.

    Ukrainians got fucked again.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Dude, with shit like this can we really blame people falling in conspiranoic shit?

    Like the phrase "the CIA was funded by nazis and has played a key role in the 'expansion' of Israel, and the path-to-power and posterior legal immunity of latam dictators famous for kidnapping babies and secretly sterilizing the population" is 100% correct yet it makes any random Qanonite sound sane.

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      • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Didn't they also feed mentally disabled kids with radioactive food to study the effects of radiation sickness and how long it would take for them to develop cancer?

    • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      I know I sound crazy when I tell people about shit like MK Ultra and other crimes against humanity that the CIA has straight-up admitted to :doomjak:

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I guess it's because of I'm not a yank, but I find the MKUltra tortures far less concerning that all the funding, training and direction of death squads all around colonized countries to keep them being colonies.

        • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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          3 years ago

          I'm not a yank either, I just mentioned that as the first thing that popped into my head as one of the more 'out there' crimes of the CIA . Operation Paperclip, the disruption of the 1948 Italian election, Operation PBSuccess, the installation of Syngman Rhee and the subsequent massacres of communists, etc. are all far more terrifying from a materialist perspective.

      • Azarova [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        smh my head, hystical lefties at it again talking about MK Ultra! a program that ended in the 70s!!! certainly the benevolent CIA hasnt begun a successor program at all!!!! :agony-shivering:

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They admit to stuff as damage control when they think it might get leaked, they'll release just enough to get attention but then not enough to admit to the worst of it, which means that our picture of bizarre CIA terror is an incomplete under representation.

  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    btw here's the article the person provides as a source.

    https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle

    • captcha [any]
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      3 years ago

      We should be leading with our sources up front if we ever want to be taken seriously. If you don't have the receipts you will be taken as a Russian shill.

      • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        If you don’t have the receipts you will be taken as a Russian shill.

        i have had many conversations in which i provide receipts and am still taken for a Russian shill. Any sources you have which contradict them are "Russian sources". Doesn't matter if the words are coming directly from officials in the US and NATO.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :wojak-nooo: No! This is Russian fake news! Voldemort Zelensky is the good guy!

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Poroshenko is an oligarch. The Azov Battalion hate him though.

        • Barabas [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, he used to be on great terms with them, but relations had soured to the point to where he was getting assaulted by them in the run up to last election and members threatened to murder him if he didn't face prosecution for 'corruption'. The main reason for this is supposedly that he didn't give them suffiecent support, which is probably just finding a scapegoat for why they failed to end the civil war in half a decade tbh.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    *funder, not founder, or Azov.

    hexbear allows you to edit the title

    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Does it? Feel like I’ve tried that before and it doesn’t work

      Edit; oh shit yeah it does

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    1 year ago

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  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :chefs-kiss:

    It could have a little bit of :epsteingelion: to make it go B E Y O N D

  • LoremIpsum [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Why should this matter at all? Doesnt the government directly give azov money anyway? Why bother pointing at this three degrees of separation shit where zelensky and some other guy used the same money laundering shell companies?

    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Cuz Zelensky ran as an anti-war candidate and said he was gonna try and get rid of Azov but once he was in office he claimed his hands were tied. This shows he’s was Bsing from the get go.