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Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.

They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Believing that modern Russia is socialist or communist and not a plutocracy run by a handful of oligarchs is cringe.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    You're more than a decade late about the oligarchs in Russia, they no longer wield the power they used to. American oligarchs have much more influence on our government than Russian wealthy do now.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I guess it depends on whether or not you think Putin is an oligarch as he's seized power from many of them and placed it under himself, the same power under fewer oligarchs isn't better.

    The wealthy definitely have too much control over the US government, and many of them should probably be executed for treason.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If you're calling the person who occupies the political seat of power an oligarch I think you're stretching the definition too much.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If Bill Gates were elected president would he cease to be an oligarch? If Joe Biden used his powers as president to take personal control over large portions of the country's industry to enrich himself would that not make him an oligarch?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    plutocracy run by a handful of oligarchs

    That's literally what Capitalism is though, why are you singling out Russia as if the states on the other side of the conflict were any different?

    Who even put those Russian oligarchs in power anyway? Something something undemocratic dissolution of the USSR

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hey do you think theres a better name for a system run by oligarchs somewhere out there or is plutocracy the only one?

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