Is he actually a threat to Putin? Is he actually as bad as Putin or is he worse? I assume the CIA wants to do a color revolution on his behalf

  • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Probably friendlier to the USA, so I would say “maybe Putin is kind of better?”

    We really gotta resist the urge to do these sorts of shades-of-gray comparisons of representatives of the enemy class.

    From the perspective of the working class, neither is a way forward.

    • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Reducing everything down to "absolutely good" and "absolutely bad" is bad, actually

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      4 years ago

      Hence the ambivalent question mark. Its like choosing between two turds for a meal.

    • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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      4 years ago

      I've noticed a bit of a tendency for some kinds of leftists to excessively binary thinking, where everything under the sun is part of a dichotomy of "Good, Pro-Socialism Anti-Capitalism" or "Bad, Pro-Capitalism, Anti-Socialism", and that these sides neatly divided and by nature always allies to their kind and enemies to the other. I know that "You have 5 seconds, pick a side" meme shitpost trend a few weeks back wasn't serious, but it had some showcase examples of this. Logically following from such views are ideas like "Any enemy of America is my ally", which would imply supporting ISIS and other far-right fundamentalist theocratic oppressive groups... Now obviously I don't think I've ever seen someone doing that here, but I have seen some ironic shitposting that comes awfully close to that, and I think we all know what often eventually comes of forums full of ironic shitposting pretending to support awful ideas.. Maybe I'm way off my rocker here, but I just wanted to identify and name something in case others felt the same way.