I spent way too long trying to figure out how this was a political compass meme.
You don't understand it's only imperialism when america.
Yeltsin Shelled Russian Parliament 30 Years Ago – U.S. Praised “Superb Handling”
Americans won the Cold War, installed fascist regimes across the former Soviet States via Shock Therapy, and spent the next 30 years trying to re-colonize Eastern Europe.
We created Fascist Russia in the 2010s the same way we created Fascist Germany in the 1920s. And once again we're profiting off the consequences, by selling weapons to Russians and Ukrainians alike.
"Ah, but have you considered that Russians are bad dudes?"
Wish someone would have told George W. Bush.
lol. brother, we are where we are because putin wasn't formally invited to join NATO as a 2nd USA. If he had applied that would have happened but that bitch wanted an invite. that is why we are where we are.
I mean, Khrushchev offered to join NATO in 1954, back when it was ostensibly still about preventing Germany from re-militarizing.
It's sort of a joke that NATO still even exists, given that it's mostly just an excuse for the US to install military bases in other countries. Sure as fuck doesn't protect anybody.
Sure. Putin is still an imperialist. The imperialist who has single-handedly decided to invade a sovereign country, killing hundreds of thousands.
Hope his boot is tasty.
US ally goes rogue. Americans re-discover their staunch commitment to national sovereignty. You could tell the same story about Saddam, Noriega, Batista, and Mobutu.
But hey, please nobody look at who is selling Putin weapons.
Telecommunications equipment made by the company of Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera is being used by the Russian military in its war against Ukraine, according to a report from Hunterbrook Media. Ubiquiti is a tech company that designs and sells long-range, wireless equipment . The company, based in New York City, was founded in 2003 by Pera, who became the owner of the Grizzlies in 2012.
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"Without Ubiquiti, these drones in Russia, the ones leading to massacres, would not work," Hunterbrook reporter Sam Koppelman said on the "Pablo Torre Finds Out" podcast on Jan. 27. "They would be flying blind." The Hunterbrook investigation used a reporter posing as a Russian military procurement officer to contact Russian vendors and Ubiquiti distributors. The report alleges that numerous vendors agreed to sell the Ubiquiti-produced equipment.
He's hardly alone.
We profit off this war coming and going, then wring our hands about Evil Foreign Imperialism.
Yeah, ok. We gave him just to good a deal on ammo. He was thinking of the savings when pressing the button. It would have been the war crime not to invade at that point.
It is like saying Americans are the fat fucking slobs they are is because chocolate is cheap.
We gave him just to good a deal on ammo.
We gave him an end run around Ukraine's anti-drone countermeasures. Robert Pera is the reason the Russian military can continue to advance.
It is like saying Americans are the fat fucking slobs they are is because chocolate is cheap.
It's like saying Americans have been arming Russia since 2024, with the tacit consent of both major parties.
The war in Ukraine began in 2014.
Then make it four administrations, as the US wasn't even sanctioning Russia back then
I thought sanctioning Russia was bad in your opinion... since it was just the US doing imperialism? So... Obunga best Prez eva?
I thought sanctioning Russia was bad in your opinion… since it was just the US doing imperialism?
Restricting sales to Russia on everything but weapons systems seems like an outgrowth of US imperialism.
Sort of like how we sold Iran and Iraq weapons to perpetuate their own mutual annihilation back under Reagan.
These are US imperial policies. The annihilation of Eastern Europe through continuous pogroms and border wars is a direct result of US foreign interventions. We're out there destabilizing whole continents for self-enrichment.
Join the fight against Russian fascism.
Sorry currently embroiled in American fascism. I'm just not taking pot shots at other leftists.
Neither are they.
Nah the amount of ansrchists attacking communists from piefed instances is insane, makes it seem like a psyop. I said it before but I'd rather team up with communists and deal with thag afterward than let the fucking fascist demons keep winning. But ya'll do you I guess I'm sure a smaller force will hold up fine against the largest rise of fascism in history.
I have no issues with communism or communists, as we at the very least we agree on the problem even if we disagree on the best solution. Hell, communism can absolutely work in the right situation: I'm not sure Marx had Free and Open Source Software in mind when he wrote his manifesto, but they can have that win.
I do have a big fucking problem with tankies though. Mostly because the venn diagram of "fascist" and "tankie" have far too much of an overlap.
We aren't attacking communist. I would be considered one. We're criticizing Communist because they aren't communist. But hypocritical champions of state capitalist ML. Who's praxis is antithetical to communism. I'm not going to team up with authoritarians regardless of their cosplay. No anarchist would.
It must be wildly overblown then because I never see anyone sucking the russian federation's dick and I'm federated with hexbear and ml. I see these posts getting spammed from the same accounts every time and all they have to say is "fuck commies", not "fuck ml people who specifically support imperialist actions" so theres also that.
We see it all the time.
We see it when those losers deny the genocide of Ukrainians at the hands of Russia and gloat about how great it is that Russia is attacking NATO.
It must be a psyop to call yourself an anarchist and fight against the innocent people on the ground level and push Russian state talking points constantly.
Says the guy who post 15 anti communist memes a day inciting anarchists to fight communists when fascists are taking over the world 👍
I've barely even made 15 posts in total. I take it you ally with liberals to fight fascism as well right, because they're against Trump and must be your allies too; No chance you would fight with liberals during such turbulent times.
Its all antichina and anticommunist shit. Its cool you'd rather fight the communists while fascists are taking over the world. Its cool that you can't make alliances to defeat a greater foe because you fear the aftermath. But I just don't see that as a winning play when the right is uniting across the world to make it the shittiest place imaginable.
So you make alliances with liberals and support them?
Did I say make alliances with the right or have I been talking about leftists this whole time? This is just drivel at this point so you can feel superior.
Many liberals might be naive reformists who think the system can be fixed or that harm reduction is a useful long term tactic, but they often still align with leftist values and oppose fascism.
You’re happy to cut off the largest allies in a fight against fascism but will ally with people who frequently outlaw minorities and lgbt people when in power?
Sounds kinda hypocritical of you to attack others for not siding with communists and like your reasoning isn’t all that thought out beyond “don’t attack communists”.
That says more about you than anything. We're lucky enough to be defederated from grad and bear who are absolutely worse about it. And I still have seen plenty cheering Russian imperialism and excusing China's enabling of it. More than any Zionism I've seen from feddit.
They aren't everywhere generally. Honestly they tend to be in their own communities mostly from my own experience. Like this one. And yes, I lament ML soiling the term communism. But, considering anarcho-communism is a fine and accepted thing. If you see anarchist complaining about communism. It's always about ML/Communism and not communism. Or just someone sadly ignorant of the difference.
Ignoring the says a lot about me bit since lol ok, but funnily enough my comments elsewhere calling for anarchist-communists alliances do fine. But this comm hates hearing it.
Probably because you say it in communities filled with communists who know they can easily crush us once they win. We are a tool to them, something they will send to the re-education gulags if given the chance.
Crush us? With what numbers? 80% of the world is capitalist. We have to make some alliances if we want to be out from this thumb. I'd much rather deal with the communists in the aftermath than allow the capitalists to complete their fascist network states.
It's not called "fed" for no reason
Uh huh, hey, why are all you "leftists" so offended at a meme directly and only criticizing people that support Russian fascism?
It doesn't call out tankies. It doesn't sling mud at .ml or Hexbear, yet here you are, offended on behalf of conquest and capital anyways.
Weird.
So you're saying anarchists from Lemmy instances have inconsistent ethics? And there is no need to use ableist slus.
I went through this whole chain and this comment makes no sense. Slur? Ethics? Inconsistencies? We arent a fucking monolith dude.
So you ignore Israeli fascism because you're only focusing on American? What an L take. Fascism is bad in all forms and needs to be attacked, not ignored to focus on whatever one affects you the most personally.
Wow, you have the personal resources to fight America and Israel? So glad you're here dude. I only have five dollars so its really hard to fight Israel from where I am at. Can you be a doll and send a few fighter jets their way will ya?
So you're saying you have the personal resources to fight America?
I'm saying I am already doing that. I can post my condolences and anger and send a few bucks here and there to the palestinians asking on hexbear but I am poor too. All I can realistically do to stop Israel is try to stop my government from funding them. But I am glad you have the reach and resources to combat both imperalists nations at the same time as previously stated.
I thought you only had $5. But now you're saying you have fighter jets that you're sending to fight the US?
I'm glad you have the reach and resources to fight America. Thank you for your service.
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