• The Quuuuuill
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      911 year ago

      Being pro Russia because you’re pro communist is so fucking weird to me. The Russian federation is an imperialist capitalist oligarchical fascist state.

        • @[email protected]
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          151 year ago

          They hate the US so much they have to bring it up continuously, everywhere and more so if the post has nothing to do with the US.

          • The Quuuuuill
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            241 year ago

            And look. I get being critical of the US, we’re a mess, but the solution to the problems in our country isn’t a slightly different authoritarian regime

            • @[email protected]
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              121 year ago

              Fucking seriously. I’m all for smashing the system, but those assholes have more in common with my racist Trump voting relatives than… you know… good people.

            • The Snark Urge
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              71 year ago

              It’s been almost two months since I got here, and I’m still not used to seeing blatantly nuanced and sensible views. I might be a little damaged.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I get what you’re saying, but I disagree with “make a lot more sense”. It still doesn’t make logical sense, but this is how these people indeed think.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Oh it doesnt make sense for anyone with any ampunt of logical reasoning, but it atleast give an explanation how their reasoning works.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          This is the correct take. They aren’t pro-Russia because they’re “communists”, they’re pro-Russia because they’re anti-west, even if that means looking the other way when there’s imperialism of the unexpected color.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Being pro Russia because ‘own the left’ and ‘our guy has autocratic dreams’ is even weirder

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          Let’s just agree that no matter your political leanings, being pro-Russia is fucking weird.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          31 year ago

          I swear to god it seemed like there was a massive shift in pro Russian sentiment when we all found out Russia had interfered in the 2016 election because

          1. Obama was doing sanctions about it and a certain group of people is always anti Obama, regardless of what that means, politically
          2. Russia had interfered on behalf of the guy they wanted, therefore Russian interference good
      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Logic has no place in that weird mob mentality. They’re basically pro fascism, just you know the fascists that aren’t Western. Makes it good fascism somehow.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Because they’re not communists, they’re just fascists that don’t like being called fascists.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The lengths to which they cry just because people use the word “tankie” is ludicrous. They also have this custom to equate “tankie” and “communist” the same way not too politically literate right wingers do.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Yeah it’s all down to the political spectrum bullshit. Far left and far right are complete opposite ends of the spectrum so therefore completely antithetical to one another!

            Meanwhile in the real world, fascists and communists (well at least the Leninist/Maoist/Stalinist ones) are all just authoritarians with slightly different rationalizations for it. I kinda feel like the only reason the concept of left/right political spectrum even exists is so some authoritarians in academic circles can claim to be nothing like the Nazis.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        No. They are not.

        Half of them are the obnoxious trust fund goons who lived on your floor in the dorms and had posters of Che on their walls. They generally came from wealth and this anti-capitalist rhetoric is just them rebelling against their parents. Their dad is probably a non-practicing jew who drives a VW Phaeton . They don’t know their birth mothers too well but their step moms are probably women who graduated from high school two classes ahead of themselves. The obnoxious goons who base their entire personality on these kinds of interactions, they pride themselves on being “disliked for speaking truth to power”.

        The other half are shitheel trolls who are too wrapped up in their own attempts at edgy bullshit to understand the difference between “it’s just a joke, bro” and “just drink the fucking kool-aid, bro”.

        Neither of those groups have any sense of self awareness.

        So nah, they aren’t communists.