It's not about what specific words you used. Read my previous comment again, I didn't even quote the "god given" part.

The issue is you fundamentally misunderstood why some leftists aren't pro-Ukraine. It's really not about what Russia has or doesn't have to right to do. That's misrepresenting our point. Just to spell this out clearly: communists don't even believe that the state should exist, let alone that an individual nation-state has a "right" to do anything. That's just not how communists think. Maybe some non-communist anti-imperialists on lemmy.ml do think that way, but AFAIK most are communists.

This is like if a pro-life person said that pro-choice people deliberately want to murder children; you're imposing a certain framework and a set of assumptions that makes your opponents look bad when that's not what they're saying. If you do this consistently, you can just shutter out debate entirely because you can ascribe incorrect or evil positions to your interlocutors until the cows come home.

If you can find an example of a leftist saying that Russia has a literal right to invade Ukraine, then we can talk about that. But that specific reason is, IMO at least, very flawed. That doesn't mean that there aren't other reasons why someone could arrive at that conclusion.

On the topic of sealioning: I won't deny that I'm sealioning because it's pretty obvious that I am. I'll just invite you and everybody who reads this thread to question whether sealioning is actually a bad thing to do in all situations. If there's a community of people making racist comments and a Black person joins that community and politely responds to every person who says something racist, they are sealioning. If a woman joins a misogynistic group of men and politely corrects them every time they say something misogynistic, she's sealioning. And the worst part is, in either of those situations, the minority definitely would be right to not be civil if they desire, but somehow this whole concept of "sealioning" exists to make you out to be a bad guy whether or not you're polite. Like, seriously, I'd be well within my rights to be impolite to you right now for lying about what leftists believe, but I'm being polite instead and that actually becomes a point against me because it becomes "sealioning."