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- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
I’m still amazed so many of my anti-imperialists don’t recognize that Russia is being imperialist here. It seems so obvious.
- SlowNPC ( @SlowNPC@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Makes sense to me; I’ve seen how it happens.
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Recognize the US govt’s imperialim
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Notice that US mainstream media generally downplays US imperialism
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Discover that RT gleefully covers and condemns US imperialism
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Conclude that mainstream news are corporate war apologists, while RT “tells it like it is”
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Walk around telling people that Ukraine is full of Nazis trying to genocide Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Putin is just trying to stop the purge.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
The first three points are all true. As is the first half of the 4th point. The problem is not realizing that China and Russia are also imperialists.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
Some people just cannot handle moral ambiguity, I guess.
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- awwwyissss ( @awwwyissss@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
A war of conquest, they’re claiming Ukrainian land as theirs.
It’s wild people believe this is about Russia defending itself. They’ve left the vast majority of their country undefended in order to focus on Ukraine.