I’m not on Twitter, so I get my news elsewhere, but most of the actual pictures I see are from here. So is there some kind of bias where only the fascist imagery gets posted here in the the dunk tank? Or do the libs scrolling through Ukrainian posts on Twitter literally see and ignore fascist imagery on every single post? Like, if they see 1000 Ukrainian soldiers, will they see 1000 fascist symbols?

  • Babs [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Ukrainian nazis are an insignificant minority with no real political power, but also it would be way too much to ask them to stop wearing nazi symbols or to not show them off front and center in all their propaganda.

    And really, doesn't every military have its nazis? That's why we also constantly see pictures of American and Russian soldiers wearing nazi patches, right?

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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        9 months ago

        to the amerikkka army's Planck-length credit, there were some scout-snipers or whatever that actually got in trouble for nazi shit in like 2006

          • D61 [any]
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            9 months ago

            HEY!

            The finger was waved at them. And they promised to be on their best behavior from now on.

            /s

        • xi_simping [comrade/them, any]
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          9 months ago

          Aussie SOF did it too

          https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-14/photo-shows-nazi-flag-flown-over-australian-army-vehicle/9859618

    • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Ukrainian nazis are an insignificant minority with no real political power, but also it would be way too much to ask them to stop wearing nazi symbols or to not show them off front and center in all their propaganda.

      This is patently false. The head of the Ukrainian armed forces posed with a painting of Bandera on Banderas birthday and it was posted on the official twitter of the Ukrainian parliament. The head of the armed forces is not a position with no political power.

      For the 8 years between maidan and Russia's entry into the civil war there were dozens of stories in western media and reports by foreign governments regarding the rise of nazism in Ukraine.

      You have to be intentionally ignorant to say that Nazism isn't a major thing in ukraine.

      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        It's hard to infer tone over the internet sometimes, so no harm done. Just letting you know that Babs was making a joke highlighting the absurdity of deluding one's self into thinking that Ukrainian Nazism doesn't run deep.