• Lemmywinks@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    You’re aware that the Soviet Union doesn’t exist any more, right? Like, the Berlin Wall came down 35 years ago, so when you uncritically defend Russia you are actually defending a hyper-capitalist oligarchy with the same economic system as the EU and the US, and not a “communist” opposition to that system (not say the USSR was ever actually communist either).

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      I don’t care what economic system Russia uses. That’s their internal matter. What matters to me is that they’re the only country with 6,000 nukes, and therefore the only country the US fears. So for my country to be independent, we need Russia to act as a counterweight to the US. (This is also true for many other countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.)

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      You’re aware that everyone is aware of that, right? If you’re going to argue with a straw man, at least build a better straw man.

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        10 hours ago

        Look at the OPs post history, they post constantly in support of Russia, China and North Korea, as though Russia is in some way ideologically aligned with the other two.

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          They aren’t ideologically aligned (at least for the most part), but they’re geopolitically aligned by circumstance.

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            Sure, but that’s basically irrelevant to the point being made in OP’s memes.

            Also, there is no ‘for the most part’. Geopolitical alliances notwithstanding, they are in no way ideologically aligned: I’ll say it once more for the people with their fingers in their ears, “Russia is not a socialist state, and hasn’t been for over three decades!”

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              It is relevant, though. They’re geopolitically aligned with China and are the junior partner. It’s ridiculous to think that they’re the biggest threat to world peace

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                I’ve spelled it out twice now, if you honestly still don’t understand I don’t think there’s anything I can say that will make it clear to you…

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      11 hours ago

      Ask GPT what “critical support” means, spoiler: it’s not double damage support.

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            9 hours ago

            I’m already aware of what the words mean, it was a jab at the way that relying on chatbots for information damages people’s ability to think.

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              10 hours ago

              Current homework:

              • understand what critical support means
              • understand the definition of imperialism
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                10 hours ago
                • I actually accused OP of uncritical support (which means supporting someone/something without any criticism).

                • Russia is an imperialist state. The fact that other states are also imperialists doesn’t change this fact in any way.

                Current homework:

                • Ask yourself why you are jumping to the defense of someone who constantly shills for an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.
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                  I actually accused OP of uncritical support (which means supporting someone/something without any criticism).

                  No you attacked a straw man.

                  Russia is an imperialist state. The fact that other states are also imperialists doesn’t change this fact in any way.

                  No you don’t know what imperialism is and yes Russian is a capitalist hellscape(thank you USA) but it’s not imperialist. Redo your homework

                  Additional homework:

                  • research the multiples definitions of authoritarian and answer how any definition is any different than us-foreign-policy

                  Ask yourself why you are jumping to the defense of someone who constantly shills for an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.

                  Sometimes OP post something relevant or correct but people hit themselves in confusion after too much critical damage thinking.

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                    • research the multiples definitions of authoritarian and answer how any definition is any different than us-foreign-policy

                    Who’s attacking straw men now? When did I ever insinuate that the US/EU/anyone else were in some way better than Russia? And what the fuck does skin colour have to do with any of this?