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I'm sure this comments section is going to be thoroughly hinged
Yeah, waiting utill guys from lemmy@ml and lemmy@hexbear come here and start protecting the USSR.
Jokes aside, is there any really independent instance? Or at least one that kinda in the middle?
Cause currently it feels like one side of lemmy on crack and support Soviets (which I can't stand, cause I lived in post-soviet country and I know why soviet system failed = cause it's piece of shit), while other heavily tripping on LSD, while supporting palestine (which I can't stand, cause I'm not into killing and raping, no matter the excuse "Al Jazeera" propagandize).
From my perceptive both are in da wrong and I get shit from both sides, lmao. Do I like, get back to reddit? Or there some place that won't ban me for my "radical opinion"?
Not a word of complaint about Israeli 4k livestreamed genocide? Shooting children in the head? Blowing up hospitals? Murdering aid workers? Starving an entire population in an open-air prison?
You could condemn both October 7th and Israel but you don't. Your "middle" is skewed as fuck.
Your opinion isn't "radical", it's straight up genocide-apologist.
And just like that "I hate hamas and people that do raping\killing" turns into "you focking genocide-apologist". That why I can't stand you people.
Okay, maybe I need to add some clarity. I will try to explain it to you like you are 5, cause it's most probably pretty close: hamas wants to kill everyone. Their current target: every jew. They won't stop. Their religion - kill jews and kafirs. Google what "kafir" is. By condemning Israel you basically saying "stop fighting and give up". That basically mean "stop resisting and let them kill you". You saying that jews needs to die. You are the person that can be described as "genocide-apologist" here, not me.
Israel is not all jews. Stop conflating the two. Many jews are horrified by what Israel is doing.
Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas.
I am against ALL genocide without exception.
Hahaha! You psychotic buffoon!
You must be a troll or deep inside an islamophobic rabbit hole to concoct that fairytale!
Try sh.itjust.works. Most folks don't notice us.
Why would you recommend your instance to a Zionist?
Quite, I fully intend to have civil and reasonable fact based discussions about the USSR which will not trail off into tribalistic whataboutist tirades.
A big part of Soviet propaganda is their use of whataboutism is deflect criticism against their regime. Supporters of the USSR and far left ideologies have inherited this tactic, which is why whenever you see anybody criticize someone on the far left, they always resort to using whataboutism, especially about the US. It's recycled material from a dead regime.
I don't consider the USSR or CCP to be far left or really any form of left. They're just red fascists.
Wow. How did you pull all of that out of your ass?
This isn't something new, controversial, or some hidden secret. It's something that's academically studied and well documented. This was literally the USSR's go to propaganda tactic when it was still around. Literally only out of touch tankies cannot comprehend common knowledge like this.
Sure, but does all of the far left do that and did they get it from the Soviet Union?
You made a far out strawman argument. Admit it.
That's why we are on Lemmy though, to have broader points of view without much censorship.