• MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    10 hours ago

    This “meme” pretends to be nuanced…but it’s simple: it attempts to boil the crisis down to “America bad”.

    Russia has agency. If you’re a leftist who supports Russia…and I know it’s common…you’ve completely lost the plot. You’re basically so anti American that you’ve overshot the mark and are supporting other fascists.

    At risk of also oversimplifying things: Russia/Ukraine isn’t good v bad…it’s fascist capitalist v “liberal” capitalist.

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      3 hours ago

      it’s fascist capitalist v “liberal” capitalist

      This is correct but probably opposite of how you think it is.

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        3 hours ago

        Oh?

        I’m anti America and anti Russia. I’m not pretending I’m some expert on geopolitics…but I do know that Russia is a fascist capitalist state and they’re not the good guys, even if many of the Ukrainians and their supporters are bad.

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          2 hours ago

          There is a historical materialist thread from Project Aerodynamic and Banderite Mykola Lebed to Victoria Nuland determining the leadership after the 2014 coup.