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Liberal Double Standards
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Upper right is similar to lower left - inconsistent values and inconsistent ideology. Pure hypocrisy. Dogs of US vs Dogs of Russia.
Supporting the liberation of Donetsk and Luhansk from the Banderite government they have been trying to secede from for a decade is a good thing, and that's why the CPRF supports the Russian nationalists in the war. Had the west not supported a far-right coup back in 2014, it's likely the war never would have happened.
Honestly canโt tell if itโs satire
Redditor npc response #912
As if Redditors even have enough canned responses to reach 912. I wish they had that much veriaty
Then you might not be very knowledgeable on the topic, lol
Nope, why would it be?
Are you arguing that Donetsk and Luhansk don't deserve liberation, on account of that being a "campist" take? Why would a "non-campist" not support their liberation?
See, if the government of a country want to genocide part of the population and that government is my husbando Zelensky, that me and western media mysteriously agree on being the most wholesome democratic leader ever, that's democracy in action ๐๐๐ and don't forget international law applies when evil Russia invades smol bean Ukraine, but if China even ATTEMPTS to breathe near Taiwan, international law is just a technicality anyway, we need to go in and fight evil authoritarian China! I'm very smart, you silly campists!
Pretty much, lol!
USA law too
Campism is when you can remember things that happened more than two weeks ago. And if you can remember things that happened more than three weeks ago, oh buddy, that's tankie
lmao
I had to come back for this message lmao, great work comrade
It's libwest.asocial, they support Ukraine because while they think they are anti-war/pacifist western propaganda convinced them that it actually is (it's also convenient because they don't have to investigate the other perspective if the enemy are one dimensional orc villains)
That's like an onion, just layers of naive. Russia has had imperial ambitions on Ukraine for a while and thinking that they care at all about the "liberation" of Donetsk and Luhansk is crazy talk.
What "imperial ambitions" do they have? Why would Russia not care about the survival of ethnic Russians right on their borders? Again, the CPRF supports Donetsk and Luhansk, as do most communist parties globally, so just saying I'm "naive" doesn't actually form a coherent counterpoint.
"Material concerns? Physical reality? Oh ho ho, how charmingly naive, my dear boy. The true core of the matter is actually very simple, you see. Pushes glasses up anime-style Russia...is Just Evil."
That broke me lmfao
Supporting Palestine makes you a dog of Russia? Sounds like you don't fully understand the core of international geopolitics
I would love to hear you try to explain how the Russian Federation somehow gained as many sympathizers virtually overnight as the US empire did through decades of world-spanning regime change, propaganda networks and bribery
Nah-uh
Do you actually believe it's inconsistent? Because it's really quite straightforward: The US-centered capitalist empire must be stopped, and it's genocidal proxies need to be eliminated, for the survival of the human race.
Bottom line. Thank you.
The inconsistent part is giving a free pass to Russia when they do everything the US does just not as extensively.
Russia is not stealing the surplus value and resources of the global south on an immense scale, which is the primary reason why its resistance to the US Empire and its European vassals plays a progressive role because of this.
If you actually believe they're doing even a tenth of "everything" the US is doing, you are woefully underinformed to be having this conversation
Imperialist capitalist oligarchic country must be stopped so I should support another imperialist capitalist oligarchic country. Brilliant logic.
only one of these countries is imperialist.
only one of these countries is a waning world hegemon with it's boot on the neck of the planet and 900 military bases worldwide.
the other has been forced into a position of fighting and weakening the hegemon, and therefore warrants critical support. This is why Africa, China and and most of the middle east support Russia in this war: every NATO tank and drone destroyed in Ukraine is one less to menace people elsewhere, one less to enforce murderous sanctions and austerity. The logic is very simple if you understand cause, effect and scale.
"fully understands the core of international politics" lol
bit timid. I would have gone for
"intimately fathoms the very essence of international politics"
flip on the x-axis
You seem confused if you think supporting Russia and Palestine makes you anti-war/pacifist and supporting Russia and Israel makes you America's laptop.
Last time I checked supporting Russia and Israel doesn't make you anti-war/pacifist. And supporting Russia hardly makes you America's lapdog