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Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you're thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.

Edit: can't get my screenshot to load properly so text:

T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: "European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones"

T2: ("non-traditional relationships" is the legal term in Russia for all things "LGBT")

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Does anyone here actually like Putin? I always thought it was critical support, with very heavy emphasis on the "critical"

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Same deal as :assad-must-stay: basically. Just because we support him in the context of a particular conflict doesn't mean he's a good person.

      • Venusta [any]
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        2 years ago

        there definitely was a handful of posters more on the uncritical side, but a lot of them got banned this/last month, and I assume are some of these new wreckers :shrug-outta-hecks:

        • LeninsRage [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          There are at least a couple of people posting in this very thread whose stance on World War I would have been "critical support for the fucking Kaiserreich against perfidious Anglo-Franco-Russian imperialism"

          • RedDawn [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            There are at least a handful of people you've accused of such in this thread including me, but you're also just wrong and there's nobody actually like that in this thread, and the war in Ukraine is nothing close to resembling WW1 lol.

          • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Is it bad to want your own empire to fail? Regardless of Russia's intentions, they are weakening America's ability to project force across the globe, and that's pretty cool.

          • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Revolutionary defeatism means opposing your own nation. If you are a westerner that means supporting the downfall of the western imperialist bloc. It does NOT mean sitting on the fence or both sidesing the situation, it means taking material actions to hinder NATO war effort and support its enemies

            WW1 was a world of competing imperialist powers. That world is gone. The current reality is a single monopoly hegemony, there are no competing imperialist powers of note. So not only is it the revolutionary duty of every Western socialist to try to throw a wrench in their own war machines, it is also the duty of every anti-imperialist on Earth to oppose the Anglo-American Atlantic empire.

            An impure ally who raises a gun against colonizers is more of an anti-imperialist than the pure transcendent Western leftist unstained by conflict or blood. So yes, that does mean the correct stance is critical support for Russia and the destruction of the Ukrainian junta - and any communist party that does not have this line is sus