• PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    There's no way they didn't see this coming when they decided to applaud a nazi. This has to have been planned right? Just getting people used to clapping for nazis right?

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Probably a test to see how much they can get away with. Support nazi affiliated regiments overseas? Totally fine, there is enough plausible deniability there that the public seems to largely swallow it and hey, it isn't their country anyway.

      Standing ovation at home? Still too much for most people. However, enough people bent themselves into pretzels trying to justify it that it has some promise. They may want to revisit it in a couple years.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I think he might be powerfully stupid and just clapped after hearing the word ukraine like a trained seal

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        that could be plausible and that's probably what they assume most critics would go with but i don't think someone makes it into a speech and gets a standing ovation without it being planned out and approved across several levels