Western enlightenment for ya I guess.

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    At the very end of the article...

    Emails also showed that Meta would allow praise of the right-wing Azov battalion, which is normally prohibited, in a change first reported by The Intercept.

    Meta spokesman Joe Osborne previously said the company was "for the time being, making a narrow exception for praise of the Azov Regiment strictly in the context of defending Ukraine, or in their role as part of the Ukraine National Guard."

    • leredditor99 [he/him,none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      "Bro they're not really nazis, just because the founders/leaders are nazis, they do nazi things, their volunteers are from avowed fascist organizations in their homecountry (just one strange coincidence that members of atomwaffen, nordic resistance movement and various other groups volunteer for them - strange!), they have nazi tattoos, read nazi literature doesn't mean anything they just really love ukraine in fact the swastika predates hitler by thousands of years and ....."

      They're actually based freedom fighters for Ukraine!

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        in fact the swastika predates hitler by thousands of years

        And the black sun in their logo is just because uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh support ukraine

        • leredditor99 [he/him,none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          "And that guy just yelled sieg heil!" Uh no he misspoke don't worry about it.

          Lmfao there's literally a news article where they interview some guy in Azov who says most of the members aren't nazis, but then when the interviewer asks him for his personal political views he says "national socialist".

          • Civility [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            You think he meant it in an "everyone here is a fucking liberal" kind of way?

            Like, "Facists? These guys? Last week I was trying to get to together a carful of guys to bash some removed heads in in Kiev and they could not get their shit together. They were all like, Kiev, man that's so far can't we just do Mariupol instead, oh sorry I'm babysitting that night, I could do thursday tho, ahhh I wish you'd told me earlier my good jacket with all the patches is at the drycleaners and it won't be back until next week. Soyboy fucking liberal removeds the lot of them."

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Presumably one can also condemn the Russian invasion, while celebrating violence against neo-nazis/banderites

      Guess it doesn’t work as analogy... always good to celebrate the latter, no need to ever ban