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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago
[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Thank god there have never been any Nazis in the Russian armed forces…

It’s nice that Utkin is dead at least, but if you think he’s the only Nazi in the Russian services I have a bridge to sell you.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Tankies giving Republicans a run for their money in the projection category LMFAOOO

[–] halva@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

fwiw there are lots of nazis from both sides 🤷 it's just that russia has no business meddling in ukrainian affairs (and vice versa), especially not by bombing civilians

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 34 points 10 months ago

Well if we're just wearing our bias on our sleeve...

I fixed it.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

can you imagine how much better lemmy would be if dessalines spent his time actually working on it instead of spreading fascism

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, wherein "Campism" is the only core of international relations recognized.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

I checked the thread in incognito (as I have .ml blocked on my account - fuck that noise) out of bile fascination. L O R D. It's hilarious, though, that only by rigorous bans can they keep the comments 'clean' of sympathizing with people who are being genocided by Good Camp(tm), while the actual meme is downvoted to hell, lmao.

[–] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, if you flip this on the x axis, the country support lines up pretty well to the political compass memes for the West. Authoritarians overwhelmingly support Israel, lefties overwhelmingly support Ukraine, and the right wing is surprisingly pro Russia. I wish more libs, both right and left, supported Palestinians though.

Of course, the words attached are hilarious bullshit still haha.

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was that authoritarians support Russia and lefties support Palestine

Yeah that’s more accurate.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 months ago

If we ignore the obviously biased label for the author’s camp this is actually kind of interesting. Definitely outlines the major fault lines in geopolitics today, at least from the perspective of westerners.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, does putting Russia to the right mean they support Russia despite their "Social Darwinism" now?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 18 points 10 months ago

It's "critical support", but good fucking luck finding any of the criticism

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 10 months ago

$0 tariffs for $0 meme imports