• ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    they just need to show

    Literally living in a fantasy world where telling everyone how rich Putin is will spontaneously lead to him being ousted. Newsflash: the people in Russia know Putin is mega-rich, you're not especially enlightened for realizing something so painfully obvious.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah the dude the west is propping up against Putin is somehow even more reactionary than Putin himself. He literally endorsed race riots in the past.

    • DasRav [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Well, yea, that's the lesson Trump taught them. After winging about him for 4 years, they got their way, so clearly that is the perfect way to do everything.

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't like Putin or would say he is good, but these people really have no clue about the 90s in Russia, huh?

    • shitstorm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It also could mean they don't know shit about Libya other than hearing "Gadhaffi bad." The PMC types who are educated about Libya and still support it get the wall, but I think the vast amount of people had no clue where Libya even was on a map until Ghaddafi got ousted. They heard from the news that democracy was restored and went on with their lives without thinking about them. Of course this "Ignore everything but America" sentiment is based in reactionary though, these people are totally reachable.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      ghaddafi died by getting his asshole stabbed like 50 times or some shit, horrible way to go and it's weird that libs use "ghaddafi'd" like it's something to be proud of

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Libya is my litmus test for decency. If someone supports what the US did to Libya I can safely write them off as unreachable.

      Sooooo... like 75% of people in the US?

  • cornoffthecob [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    "They just need to show how much of he profits off of being a dictator when the average person's quality of life in Russia FreedomLand™ doesn't even get close to comparing."

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      The sheer zero self awareness.

      • cornoffthecob [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Well you see, America is better bc instead of one Big Bad Dictator, we get to elect a few hundred little dictators to oppress us instead.

        • Prinz1989 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Ceasar aspires to be King! Trust in the Senat to preserve Roman freedom against tyranny!

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          4 years ago

          Or even pick which small dictators will parasite our surplus and then our salary

  • lutteurdeclasse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Biden is my dad and the CIA are my friends in hogwarts and we are going to end authoritarianism and fascism in Russia with the combined powers of friendship and liberalism

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      All these people know know is Gorbachev pizza hut and Yeltsin was friends with Bill Clinton. They do not know that the USSR was split against the democratic will of the people, that state assets were sold for literal pennies or at 5% of their value to oligarchs or western companies, or that there was a massive decline in the quality of life during that time period.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        If I were a Russian, I'd prefer launching the nukes rather than letting the Americans impose the 90's on my country again.

      • CommunistDog [he/him]
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        edit-2
        4 years ago

        It seems to be mainly :LIB: focused so no but also yes? There was a ridiculous amount of unironic CIA apology and support in that thread.

        • shitstorm [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I browsed and didn't see people overtly calling AES as bad as Hitler, so it's an improvement from most reddit ANTIFA subs.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Should we at least wish for Putin to fucking explode in flames for what he did and does? Yes, but WE, not liberals.

      Those spineless shits have zero problem with Saudi Arabia, any US-cocksucker-coup-regime, or etc. Fuck them. Fuck. Them.

    • shitstorm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      My dad thought he was an old-style Soviet since he used to be in the KGB. I was glad I had the "actually Putin's mentor was Boris Yelstin who was famously the liberal wing in Russia" to immediately throw back.

        • shitstorm [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Also I hate to be this guy, but I love your movies. My friends are always quoting Spider-man and Lighthouse, but I love your more niche shit. "IT WAS A FIREFIIIIIIIIIIIGHT", yeah amirite?

  • regul [any]
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    4 years ago

    Surely this time the US organizing a regime change will have no unforseen negative consequences.