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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 9 points 10 hours ago

Dessalines is a techbro after all

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

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

I fixed it.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[–] halva 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours 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 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Yeah that’s more accurate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

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