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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I'm not a cryptofascist.
If anyone's a cryptofascist, it's you, defending Russia and supporting Putin's goals of reimplementing the USSR through imperialism and the war against Ukraine. You're even doing so in this very thread.
If Putin actually wanted to reimplement the USSR, then it would already be socialist. You're absolutely a cryptofascist, you cape for Israel, attack communism and communists, and host a Nazi-bar.
So why are you defending Russia if Putin is supposedly not wanting to reimplement the USSR? (He is)
Link me to where I have attacked communists, since I've defended communism, much to the dismay of my community
But you're not a communist, Cowbee, you're an authoritarian tankie.
Putin is trying to take advantage of the rising wave of support for socialism to retain support over the liberal opposition. I already showed that support for socialism is rising in Russia, Putin is opportunistically trying to feign support in order to retain legitimacy, but has no interest in actually implementing socialism.
Secondly, the entire purpose of MeanwhileOnGrad is to oppose communists and communism. "Tankie" isn't an ideological position, it's a pejorative for communists.
Source:
You don't trust the BBC?
Not really. But I did actually skim it, and only posted that after I confirmed that it didn't show what you said it did.
You might want to skim it again
It shows that Putin is a Nationalist, and then ends off with someone that was exiled in 1976 saying "trust me bro he really doesn't understand why the Soviet Union dissolved and really wants to bring it back, just trust me bro"
And returning soviet union symbols?
Opportunistically using them. Harkening back to the old times. Better times.