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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")

  • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Anti-imperialism isn’t an ideology, it’s an action. That’s my point. The ones doing the actions are the ones you are attacking

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

      In the case of Syria, the phrase you're looking for is: "The ones bombing the people who actually fought ISIS are doing so for totally anti-imperialist reasons, because anti-imperialism is when you bomb the people who are doing real, beneficial things for people, because America and dogs or something."

      Hell, the fucking SDF is better at killing Turks than Assad is!

      • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        :PIGPOOPBALLS:

        Everything you wrote is wrong. It was wrong 6 years ago, but then at least ignorance was understandable. Imagine being like this in 2022

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

          Sorry to bring actual facts into things. I know you prefer it when reactionary leaders make up stories about how heroic they are while being bumbling fuckwits and anti-socialist monsters.

          • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            You are wrong on every count, you have no facts, and the Kurds are American imperialist proxies looting oil and food from starving Syrians. The CIA convinced you to support them lol you are that gullible. Next you will be supporting Hong Kongers

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

              The "Kurds" are a diverse group of people who aren't just Kurds in Northern Syria who have fought ISIS and Turkey while Bashar Al-Assad pisses himself and declares it genius.

              I don't give a fuck about Hong Kong one way or another. The advocates for independence are racist hypercapitalists. The CPC has absolutely shat the bed in managing the social problems created by Hong Kong's predatory capitalism, and that resulted in what it always results in: reactionary revolts.

              • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                Use context clues, we are obviously discussing the Syrian Kurds and their imperialistic opportunistic allegiance with the American military

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

                  Well, I was pushing back on "the Kurds" as a description of the SDF, since it isn't particularly accurate.

                  And imperialism is when people surrounded by stronger enemies take whatever help they can get, huh? You'd fucking hate most revolutionary-period communist parties if you held them to that standard.

                  • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    Sounds like something a comprador would say

                    Why were fellow Syrians "enemies" while American fascist pig invader genociders were "whatever help they could get".

                    Why was this not inverted?

                      • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                        2 years ago

                        Aiding imperialist invaders for your own personal advancement is the definition of being a comprador

                          • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                            2 years ago

                            I don't see any socialism happening, just redistribution of looted imperial plunder among a small ethnic clique

                            what part of "dont be a proxy of the imperialist hegemon, ever, or don't whine about consequences if you do" is hard to understand?

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

                              That's because you know absolutely nothing about Rojava and you're still talking out of your ass while pretending that the coalition of people there, including a number of different ethnicities, is doing what the state you actually support does: loot the natural resources of Syria to advance a small ethnic clique to the detriment of all other Syrians. That's the Assad government you're describing.

                              • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                                2 years ago

                                YPG/YPJ work with SDF to safeguard American convoys of YPG/YPJ controlled oil (that was not theirs at the start of the conflict) out into Iraq.

                                Do you agree or disagree that this is happening?

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

                                  Unclear whether it is still happening, given the current conditions, but it certainly has happened in the past.

                                  Revolutionary socialists selling oil to fund their resistance to two reactionary regimes? Oh no! That's only good when Venezuela does it!

                                  Now who had the oil before, huh? What were they doing with it? Funding an insane hyper-salafist theocratic hell you say? Obviously it is worse that socialists have that oil!

                                  Perhaps you mean before ISIS? Exactly what you accused the YPG/YPJ of doing! Looting that oil to enrich a small ethnic minority!

                                  It sucks that the US are involved, but I support actual existing socialism, not incoherent "anti-imperialism" that has done nothing to harm the hegemon.

                                  • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                                    2 years ago

                                    Were other "revolutionary socialists" propped up militarily by US army and airforce? Supplying them bases while they are invading a nation, balkanizing it?

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

                                      I can think of one revolutionary socialist regime that was dependent on US military support to prop it up against a reactionary regime determined to crush it in order to advance the interests of a racial elite, yes. I imagine you could, too, if you thought about it for a moment.

                                      For all your accusations that the western left is too purist, you are the one being a purist when actual existing socialism exists and depends on whatever help it can get to protect itself from reactionary regimes that wish to smash it. Obviously, the US can't be trusted in that role, as it has already basically sold the YPG and SDF out to Turkey in order to get Finland and Sweden into NATO. You can certainly criticize the YPG for being foolish, but you are doing everything in your power to project the reality of the Assad regime onto the YPG, not criticizing it for foolishness.

                                      You're a very skilled liar. You pivot away from anything inconvenient to you and constantly stay on the attack without ever actually saying anything of worth. Everything you accuse the YPG/SDF/Rojava of is the essence of how Assad's government operates. You will continue not to address this reality, because you know it is true.