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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")

  • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Fighting against imperialism is actually just imperialism, if your intentions aren't pure.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Supporting my anti-imperialist comrades in ISIS as they undermine American hegemony

      • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Undermining American hegemony by...destabilizing a region that America benefits from being unstable? Not really the same situation. Russia is actually doing real harm to our ability to maintain a global stranglehold. That is a good thing, even if Putin is otherwise a shitty reactionary capitalist.

        • jabrd [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          But that’s my point, he is a reactionary. A meteor isn’t anti-imperialist if it lands in the north atlantic. Anti-imperialism is a coherent political project that Putin isn’t taking part in. There might be overlapping goals/methods, but Putin’s political project is a just a competing imperial power. There’s no victory for the left in Russia’s victory as much as there absolutely is one in America’s defeat

          • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            You are forcing your conclusion with your chosen analogy. That meteor would be anti-imperialist IF it was forced into hitting the North Atlantic because the North Atlantic cornered it and was antagonizing it. Russia against the US isn’t random

            Anti-imperialism means you fight against the hegemonic empire. Period, that is it. Intention is not relevant

            • jabrd [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Marx failed to consider that the meteor is, in fact, anti-imperialist

              • crime [she/her, any]
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                2 years ago

                "...feudal system in which even the homeless vagabonds, the comets, have been apportioned their station in life and in which, for example, the shattered asteroids bear witness to occasional unpleasant scenes, while the meteors, those fallen angels, creep shamefaced through the “Infinite space”, until they find somewhere or other a modest lodging."

                from Vol II of The German Ideology

      • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        ISIS is American-backed imperialist force, and Russia crushed it

        Another point in our favor, not yours

        • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Weird way of saying that ISIS was primarily crushed by communalist Kurds and others aligned with them in Northern Syria while Russia dicked around and bombed the people actually fighting ISIS.

                  • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    Two heroes of the people against colonial fascism, who have done more for those resisting imperialism than anyone on this website or in American politics

                    Just take the word of DPRK, or PRC, or Cuba. DPRK has never been wrong on foreign policy and issues of imperialism before, and they all hold this stance

                    Why is it so hard just to get westerners to agree with foreign AES on issues of imperialism?

    • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Here come the westoids to divine the intent of nations outside the core and judge them for their lack of purity

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, it's a shitty capitalist oligarchy and Putin is awful and homophobic. That doesn't mean that when they do a thing which is anti-imperialist, you look at the action itself and say "oh actually this action is bad and imperialist because the country or person doing it is bad".

            • RedDawn [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Definitely, I'm 100% on board with that, obviously. Fuck Putin and the Russian government for being awful to our LGBT comrades.