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The liberal brainwashing is complete, they're as rabid as neo-cons.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More Reddit than Reddit themselves.

Also u/ilovethebomb is a notorious Ukraine shill, I've seen them every time this war comes up. They're not the one-off mindless innocent lib, they purposely go on Lemmygrad to be angry and get owned.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

eternally shrinking into a corncob

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More Reddit than Reddit

Is it Reddit all the way down? Make it stop.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Is it Reddit all the way down?

Always been.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More Reddit than Reddit themselves.

You can remove the Redditor from Reddit, but you can't remove Reddit from the Redditor.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crazy. TIL

No! You fucking did not just learn that! You just saw someone on an anonymous internet forum assert it. That does not count as learning it! Jesus fucking christ! matt-jokerfied

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

They want to believe it, so the source is irrelevant. This is how most Liberal learning goes.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man. These fuckers out here trashing Code Pink. Respect to that group, they've been active since the Iraq war invasion and libs have gone from loving them to hating them.

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those same libs probably initially hated them at the beginning of the Iraq war too. Liberals were fully on board with the war and with calling anybody who didn't support it un-American.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

apparently the most tame anti war org is just a wing of the CPC

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

To be fair to them, Code Pink is AFAIK pretty rad and they're doing good work.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

When you think about it, the CPC is probably the greatest anti war org on the planet. It it reacted to America's repeated provocations with anything less than complete calm and restraint, we'd probably all be dead.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't it funny how these peaceniks only come out against war when the tide turns in Ukraine's favor

What?

I know the U.S. is breaking international law to give them seized Iranian weapons and ammunition, but every single source basically agrees they're bleeding out for inches

I know propaganda is a hell of a drug, but still!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Completely botching a counter offensive because NATO tactics and weapons suck ass is the tide turning in Ukraine's favour apparently.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely botching a counter offensive because NATO tactics and weapons suck ass

For decades, NATO tactics have involved the military equivalent of smuglord where it's a bunch of arrogant presumptions of superiority while never critically testing them against a peer military.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is already a self own, it explicitly admits we were right all along, that Russia was winning for the past 18 months which is something they denied throughout.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

And we were saying 18 months ago to stay the fuck out of it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol peacenik used unironically, this war is really turning some people into the dad from Night of the Living Dead

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

The war ends when [thing that's never going to happen] happens.

Why can't they acknowledge that they just don't want the war to end? That they just want to punish Russia by bogging them down in a 20 year war like Afghanistan, no matter the cost to the Ukrainian people.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people have a completely non-material, vibes based, idealistic view of warfare. It's not about soldiers and missiles and satellites and industry, it's just good guys and bad guys and the good guys should win because they're the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

soldiers and missiles and satellites and industry

many of them actually go bonkers for that shit. The war being the main headline generator gives them an excuse to indulge in their obsessive jingoism and military fetish because it's topical and they get to show off how smart they are by regurgitating specs they memorized from Lockheed Martin brochures.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Because they can just blame Russia for everything and pretend they have a moral highground. Checkmate chinese propoganda bot.

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

We have to keep beating the dead corpse of the USSR because it helps us ignore our home in the corpse of capitalism

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

The war ends when the last Ukrainian dies! No debate!

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is textbook virtue signalling. Competing with one another about who can most aggressively agree with the consensus position. There's no effort to understand anything here, just farting and sniffing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to be the norm now, this is all I see outside of hexbear and a few other pockets.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the inevitable result of reddit-style design, imo, particularly with regard to having downvotes. Downvotes discourage people from making controversial comments, because even if you’re correct and lots of people agree with you, your comments can still be buried or limited in visibility if enough people dislike them. The downvote button isn’t supposed to be the disagree button, but in real terms that’s what it is.

If comments that people agree with get more visibility, and things people disagree with get less visibility, then the natural result is going to be that people learn to make comments that everyone agrees with. A recipe for banality.

Hexbear has no downvotes so it functions more like twitter. You can’t just hit the dislike button and move on, so if you want to express dislike or disagreement, you have to comment and amplify, which reddit people hate. They think it’s brigading or trolling because, despite their ostensible love of debate, they don’t actually want to discuss anything.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Good; the more fascists in jail, the better

Username is antifa picard

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Using the words "authoritarian regime" sets off either state department bot alarm bells or fallen-for-propaganda alarm bells.

Even if a country is that, in my head that's a term that journalists use for "the bad countries" and I could never say it sincerely.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every country has an authoritarian regime, it came free with your nation state.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Your average Chinese person could probably give less of a shit about the USA that foaming feral burgers do about China who live in their brain 24/7 and are responsible for literally everything bad in the world.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Anything I don't like is chinese propaganda sorry

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

who talks like this?

Crackers

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I bang my GI Joe and my Skeletor figurines together and pretend it's the Russo-Ukrainian War. I'll lay there for hours on my mom's floor saying "pew pew pew" while the Ukrainian GI Joe drops drone grenades on the RuZZian Skeletor. I'll dismember him bit by bit as I laugh in my head. Many times I've written the Ukrainian Army and suggested new tactics based on my recreations of the drone videos. Once I said they should drop acid bombs and they replied "thank".

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could have stopped the rabies outbreak if we'd heeded the advise of the DPRK. Now all the liberals are hiding their Biden bites and insisting it is the tankies who are rabid for, uh...

wtf-am-i-reading

it says here "wanting to withdraw the tanks"

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ah yes, but, you see, what you don't see here is that we're actually the Adults In The Room and we're doing Adulting, a higher-order concept that your ignoramus brain could never understand, tankie smuglord

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Ukraine will fight to the last man and woman, I promise you that from my air-conditioned wine cave!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Everything I don't like is a Russian / Chinese bot. Literally everything. The second I dislike something even slightly, it's automatically a Russian / Chinese bot. Their bot technology is just that good. In fact they have shoved 100% of their GDP into bot production so they can write convincing posts on Lemmy. That's how you know communist countries don't know how to efficiently run an economy.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No these are just liberals

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Anyone who has consistent principles will eventually run afoul of the libs, whose beliefs swing around wildly like a weathervane to point at whatever is convenient for them

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I out here using some words. Doesn't really matter what they mean. I just like using them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Propaganda! Treason! CHINAAAA!! frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Putin just needs to retire and take up painting. All will be forgiven just like GWB invading Iraq.

RF has been much more restrained in their use of military force in a war on their border than the USA has ever been in numerous campaigns around the world. Just to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

liberal brainwashing is complete, they’re as rabid as neo-cons.

its_the_same_picture.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukraine can't just win a war because they want it bad enough. There is no triumph of the will

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