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  • vovchik_ilich [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Rofl, communists who don’t give critical support to modern Russia are Nazis, gotcha mate. And a Spanish empire enjoyer too, according to the comment I replied to. Fucking delirious, I tells ya

    • Beetle_O_Rourke [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      “Neither Moscow nor Kiev” is not a coherent position in a conflict, and as long as you are paying your spanish taxes, is functionally equivalent to Adam Something paying to have his channel shouted out on a 155mm shell meant for donbass children.

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                1 month ago

                One is really fucking annoyed by he/hims badposting.

                mood. It’s always the he/hims isn’t it (not that I haven’t run into plenty of non-masc people with the same brainworms)

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                    1 month ago

                    It’s not nice that I discuss your nationality and gender (well, that bit was brought up by others), but when combined with your biases they are very telling. Even the (presumably Ukranian) that you’ve been chatting with had to hard disagree with you on the whole “I’m neutral because both sides suck” and “90% Hitler vs 99% Hitler” comparison.

                    And the only reason why you can think that a nation like Russia is “90% Hitler”- is genuinely because of your privilege or bias (which is not necessarily tied to nationality and definitely not gender in the case of geopolitics, but certainly has some correlation with the former). The only reason why you can wash your hands of the issue (despite recognizing which nation is the true aggressor, and which is acting to ensure its survival) is because you have no stake in the game and have not had comparable experiences, nor learnt appropriate empathy as such (and unlike “smol bean” victims like the Palestinians who can barely resist, or the AES nations which you can easily agree with, supporting Russia is inconvenient to you).

                    Russia isn’t an imperialist nation, and despite your misgivings, by its actions alone it is if anything an anti-imperialist nation, not just in Europe but across the world (and it has been in varying degrees so for a long time, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union- despite the fact they tried to join NATO). Today Russia is actively working to create an anti-imperialist, multipolar, genuinely democratic world order among nations with the rest of the BRICS, and it is actively assisting in the development of the global south as well as their security from western destabilization, from the MENA region to the Sahel or the Caribbean, etc… apart from social issues which are valid (but not remotely comparable in the context given and you know it) criticisms, you have nothing to pin on Russia, save for fearmongering that Russia could in time develop to be like the west (because even as a capitalist state it is not remotely akin to the west and their imperialist world order), despite the fact that Russia’s actions are if anything as counterproductive as it could get to developing a worldwide imperialist system like that which the west has established, and that Russia neither has the means, nor the present desire to pursue such a path.

                    And even if I’m not to point at your gender, admittedly there’s no way in hell I won’t point out nationality (as someone living in a western country myself, but who also has family elsewhere/was born elsewhere, is not white, etc) in this regard- Russia is NOT guilty of what the white, western imperialist order is actively engaging in as we speak. It is NOT comparable. I’m bringing up your nationality in this regard because the bias is literally that obvious, and it comes from exactly that point. It sucks to hear it, but as someone from a NATO country as well- WE ARE THE BADDIES. Russia is not remotely comparable. It’s not a struggle between “90% Hitler and 99% Hitler,” at most it’s akin to the struggle between, say, the reactionary and non-socialist governments of Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, etc. vs. the Axis, with the difference being that this time around Russia can properly and fully fend for themselves, thankfully. It’s not even the struggle between “genocidal empires Britain/France/USA vs. the Axis,” it’s “the empire (NATO/the collective west) vs. the rest.” There is literally no comparison and I think you and the entire west needs to learn that.

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          1 month ago

          How on Earth are you comparing the Beijing government and economic system to the Moscow one? They have nothing in common other than being geopolitical enemies of the USA.

      • vovchik_ilich [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 month ago

        as long as you are paying your spanish taxes

        “You claim to be a communist yet you participate in the system you’ve been forced to live in. I am very smart”

        Being primarily anti-nato, especially towards the general public, is compatible with criticism of the contemporary russian government.

        I take it for granted you actively donate money to the Russian military for them to free the Russo-Ukrainians in Donbas, or that you’re volunteering for the chance of warring in Ukraine, since support to Russia’s military operation is the morally correct stance and so much as paying taxes in the west is equivalent with supporting Azov?