- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English26•7 months ago
I swear to God there were pictures of people at Jan 6 wearing “Better Dead than Red” shirts, of the sort that have been around since at least the 80s if not earlier. Expected, predictable, cold war era bumper sticker phrasing on a shirt that I’m pretty sure I’ve been seeing worn by roughly the same kind of personality all this time. The kind of personality who was still calling Russians “the commies” ten years ago.
It’s as if the right forgot all their decades of being ready to kill Russians/Soviets at the drop of a hat, to immediately turn Putin into one of their folk heroes. I get that’s the power of corruption but like - do we just pretend this wasn’t the most vocally anti-Russian segment of US society up until roughly 4 years ago?
- schnokobaer ( @schnokobaer@feddit.de ) 9•7 months ago
that’s the power of corruption
mostly St Petersburg bot farms I’d say. Corruption at the top of the GOP helps but that’s not what turns millions of people around in a couple of years.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 15•7 months ago
Macron is right to encourage Europe to build their own military weapons. In the eventuality that Trump gets re-elected, they’re gonna get fucked over by Trump pretty bad and won’t be able to rely on the US for any help against Russia. Putin will start taking over all of the old Soviet countries in Eastern Europe and things are going to get worse.
- anguo ( @anguo@lemmy.ca ) 9•7 months ago
I’m sorry, but there’s no way I can make that cursive part spell out “Grandma”.
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 2•7 months ago
e & mapmya
- exanime ( @exanime@lemmy.today ) 9•7 months ago
Well I guess if Putin literally “fucked your brains out”, you’d wind up voting maga
- casmael ( @casmael@lemm.ee ) 6•7 months ago
Man everything about this is so fucking cursed
- Mastengwe ( @Mastengwe@lemm.ee ) 6•7 months ago
As much as I can’t fucking stand “Trutin” or, “Putump,” or whatever we call that amalgamation of human filth….
This reads like a left-wing attempt to make you think someone on the right said this.
Or… wait….
are they really openly supporting Puttie like this now?
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 3•7 months ago
They always have
- Mastengwe ( @Mastengwe@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
Openly though?
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months ago
- Mastengwe ( @Mastengwe@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
I’ve a feeling they’re brothers named Cletus.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 2•7 months ago
Both Cletus and Jimbilly Nathaniel were scheduled to be keynote speakers at the CPAC, but it was realized just in time that they could not read.
Peak Republicans.
- null ( @null@slrpnk.net ) 1•7 months ago
But that’s essentially saying "Russians are bad but Democrats are worse’
The meme in the OP is flat-out praising Putin.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months ago
Potato-Potato
- null ( @null@slrpnk.net ) 1•7 months ago
Nah
- ZILtoid1991 ( @ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ) 2•7 months ago
That is like the most terminally online language I’ve seen in one of these memes…
- athos77 ( @athos77@kbin.social ) 1•7 months ago
Never. But I’ll play along to see if I can get rid of one or both of the bastards.