“It’s only a small group of them” Meanwhile all of the Ukrainian leaders who weren’t Nazis have left, and it’s virtually impossible to find anyone within Ukraine’s military who doesn’t hold some form of Nazi sentiment.

you said it in the text portion of the post, but my god MSM was really trying to convince people that Ukraine wouldn’t even use the war crime bombs, telling us that there’s no reason to be upset about it because they’re just to keep Russia at bay (or whatever), and now that Ukraine’s done exactly what people were nervous about they’re having to find ways to justify it.

Also, the slant of this, when Liberals talk about how Russia lacks a fair democracy and a small group of people hold a majority of the power within the political system. Then argue that all you have to do to change conditions in Western countries is to vote.

And, ya know, Russia’s just “the villain,” so they’ll talk and talk about how bad that situation is, but when you talk about the US, who they see as “the hero,” they get defensive and act like you’re the problem for implying that the US has the exact problems and voting doesn’t matter.

“my dumpster fire is pure and perfect, all of the issues that my dumpster fire has can be fixed if we just vote on it. Your dumpster fire is evil and impure. The only way to fix its problems is if my dumpster fire invades it.” literally their take.

“China isn’t real Socialism because they have billionaires and corporations”

“Nordic Socialism is a better form of Socialism than Marxism-Leninism, because it’s democratic and happiness is high in those countries”

Meanwhile, China has democratic elections and scores high on citizen happiness, and the Nordic countries also have billionaires and corporations. China has a ML government, while the Nordic countries are capitalist. Make it make sense.

man lookin’ creepy as hell in his own thumbnail

They will literally be like “I’m a better person than you and a bastion of goodness for humanity, so now I will use slurs that are meant to demean and demonize you, because I’m a perfect person.” I’m willing to bet most of the people we have pouring in to argue with us over not supporting Liberal narratives actually hold worse views than we do and are trying to compensate for it by projecting them onto us.

That’s what a lack of ‘self-crit’ will do to a person.

We got someone from lemmy.world who reported the same comrade 4 times in a row, using slurs in their report, implying that it’s xenophobic to dislike Americans.

Literally, wft.

boy howdy, this “”“study”“” entirely lacks an understanding of “tankie” positions.

We, according to them, are more toxic when talking about propaganda that’s constantly pushed in our faces - often in conversations that had nothing to do with that propaganda. Gee, I wonder why that would be. Why would people who have to repeatedly explain anti-communism to anti-communists want to let off steam with like-minded people, who also have to deal with the same exact thing? Dumbass takes from this “”“study”“”

Also, I’m betting the people who did this study are going to come find this post and use it to prove themselves right, but all they’ll really prove is that they think it’s the fault of the bees when a person gets stung after poking the nest.

They’re “anti-war champions” until it’s the Republicans who are against the war, then they’re staunch warmongers.

Almost as if the whole “anti-war” thing in American politics was just another means of controlling narratives.

I think trolls are coming to ancient posts because they don’t expect us to notice. Another possible explanation is these people simply don’t understand that the posts are old as hell, and decide to throw in their two cents.

regardless, pretty much all of it I’ve seen is people from other instances (most common I’ve seen is lemmy.world) who have something contrarian to say. Some weird shit.

I’ll often scroll MSM thumbnails on youtube to get a gist of what media is actively talking about, media has been running hard the narrative that Russia was about to attack the plant. Knowing that media has lied about Russia attacking things they didn’t before (pipeline, the bridge, etc.) I made an assumption that Ukraine was about to attack it, and Russia was going to get the blame. This sells me on the idea.

It’s always hilarious to me when a westerner (journalist or not) is forced to indirectly admit they didn’t know what they were talking about, or that they were lying. Because news came out that completely contradicts what they said, and they can’t go against it without becoming ostracized by their peers.

Literally Japan v2

Already planning out laws to prepare for becoming an American colony.

the Lockheed Left loves to talk about how Russia is trying to erase Ukrainian culture, but completely overlooks that NATO is going to do worse than that.

It’s like this specific type of person thinks their 2-hour Wikipedia dive and their high school required reading of 1984 makes them more knowledgeable than comrades who’ve spent large blocks of their lives reading obscure tomes they found while crypt-diving on Marxists.org.

These total losers will come into any community that’ll have them, then spout the most milquetoast, regurgitated takes on subjects they’ve never honestly researched. Then lose their pants in rage when their benign tomfoolery is returned to them by people who actually know the history or theory in question. Their only political education is on par with The History Channel, virtually a kindergartener trying to correct someone with a doctorate. This is the intellectual equivalent to street fighters, who think they’re big and tough because they never actually train in a specific martial art and happen to win against fellow losers, then who step into a real martial arts academy thinking they’ll easily challenge the instructor and win, then get their asses handed to them.

I think most people who read this will agree, these people are the greatest laughingstocks on the left. Funnier than most anarchists, a bigger hoot than any shitlib. The only value these people have is the crux of a joke. Otherwise, they’re a waste of bandwidth.

This time on ‘left-liberal thinks they’ll get approved to access a controlled forum by admitting to being a bad faith actor who wants to start unproductive debates’

I know the Winnie the Poo one was racism mixed with “communism is when government bans things” propaganda.

Winnie the Poo is not banned in China, nor was it ever (to my knowledge). The entire meme of it came from people (mostly white racists) claiming that Xi Jinping looked like the character on sites like Reddit and 4Chan, then on the same sites they claimed the meme was banned in China and was being suppressed by Reddit’s moderation (it wasn’t). Thus creating an urban myth that not only was the meme of Xi photoshopped next to Winnie banned, but Winnie the Poo as a character was also banned.

This whole thing comes down to Sinophobia, and the racist desire to believe anything that’s being said about China.

honestly, our account application requests keep most of them out. Also, the community’s reporting of rule breakers does a lot.

The true heroes here are y’all.

It is disgusting to me that most people have no idea that European business leaders - notably the ones in England - strongly supported the south. Further, it upsets me that most people don’t know that workers demonstrated and held strikes to force their bosses to stop supporting the southern war effort.

The US civil war was not a self-contained conflict, it was not just a concern to the United States. Every nation that benefitted from US products was involved in the southern war effort in some way, even if their governments officially supported the north or banned slavery. Hell, Brazil celebrated the confederates, and used fleeing confederates to colonize parts of Brazil. There are STILL pro-confederacy festivals in Brazil.

and while the dollars of the vassals diminish in value, favours in exchange for the emperor’s dollars becomes more attractive.

The more they tank their kin, the more power they wield.