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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

a new form of colonialism in Africa

Aka not colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, famously the idea of "say one thing, mean another," didn't exist before 1917.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

The famine that affected the whole USSR, of which Ukraine was a part? What does that have to do with Russia, let along the "Tzar"?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literal fascist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Their argument was that so called Western socialists are mostly just Western chauvinists who make their determination on what movements are "real socialists" based on how closely they align, racially and culturally, to the West.

There, that's their argument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wannabe McCarthy here copy pasting this comment all of the place; "known tankie", are you fucking serious with this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you're only going to read the headline, go back to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

This kind of selective application of values - where warcrimes are ignored or acknowledged purely based on geopolitical alignment - is more loathsome to me than no application of values at all: cynical, bad faith, weaponised hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the king told the committee that he didn't want dictatorships

wonder-who-thats-for

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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