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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Wow, he's so close to not being dumb.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Critical support for fascists!" - tankies unironically

Of course, to tankies, "Critical support" means "I realize this looks bad but I still want to bootlick for it"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No bad tactics, only bad targets. Aka it's okay when we do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've seen them crow about how they don't suffer from "Trump derangement syndrome" while posting the same anti-Biden stuff as christofash. It's wild how much they support fascism and think they're somehow immune to the label because they're communists.

[–] mindbleach 10 points 1 year ago

'We're just performing loyalty and the details don't matter' is saying the quiet part into a megaphone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's such a black-and-white take.

"Communism is good. US is capitalist, so anti-communist, and NATO is basically led by the US, so it's bad. Russia is anti-Nato, so anything they do must be good, including performing war crimes in Ukraine"

So gross

[–] Estiar 5 points 1 year ago

I can work with that. Someone actually recognizes the nationalism in United Russia and knows something about their ideology.