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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (4 children)

lol the tankies downvoted you

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear in shambles.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh hexbear too? I have noticed a lot of questionable posts coming from there

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yep. Just red through some of the comments on lemmy.ml for this news and compare it to the instance of the accounts. https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/597721/Sweden-officially-joins-NATO#comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

lol reminds me of when it was explained to me that Russia is an Asian country and if I supported Ukraine it meant I was racist against Asians

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make any sense on absolutely every level. lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They will then post an article talking about Russia “reclaiming” its Asian-ness and another that says that it was Asian all along. Then they will downvote you into negative double digits while explaining how horrible a person you are

PS I actually moved here after many months of it. Had no idea what “ml” meant. I joined there because it was the dev instance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The devs being tankies was one of the reasons why I went with kbin / mbin over Lemmy. It just didn't sit right with me. But I also couldn't stand the layout / design.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I wish I had known! I really do. But I’m here now and it’s ok. This instance is full of nice people for the most part, it’s like 2005-era social media again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's some fun logic. A equals B, and B equals C, so A equals C. But this isn't math and subsets aren't totality. So hating Russia for warmongering isn't hating Asians for being Asian.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yiikes the comments there are so toxic its crazy. Glad I've got those instances blocked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear

A trifecta of varying qualities of propaganda. An axis of artifice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are good people in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There are good people everywhere.

Doesn’t really change the fact that Russia, more or less in its current form, has been bullying its neighbours for half a millenia. Longer, if you count the Grand Duchy of Moscow as Russia.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could be said the same for most Europen countries to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Start naming 😄 I wouldn’t say most. Britain, France, Prussia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, France and Russia had their little swingers club changing partners every few years or so, but there are more countries in Europe.

I’m from Latvia. Russian chauvinism is something I know of first hand. Most other European countries that I have been to have a different, more accepting vibe than the parts that are Russian influenced and manipulated.

So it really can’t be said about most European countries. Maybe historically, but definitely not currently.

I’d like to reitarate that there are good people everywhere. Part of my family is Russian and I like them. I have Russian friends. But it can’t be denied that as a state it’s goddamn awful and should disintegrate asap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I don't consider them to be Russian trash. Only Putin and his sympathizers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's such a bizarre thing... Communism fell in Russia probably before many of these people were born. But the support the successor state to the Soviet Union, which is an authoritarian kleptocracy, because why? Nostalgia? Ignorance?

Tankies be weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

russia was never communist.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

I guess you would call Navalny tankie too