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Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Equal shame for all the countries that abstained. There is not a damn chance any country is genuinely unsure how they want to vote so an abstain vote in this case is just "I want to vote against but am too embarrassed to."

Which happens to be the entire West, not a single country commonly considered "Western" voted in favour. Surprise surprise

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[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm guessing, based purely on the countries highlighted, that this is a Russian sponsored resolution.

There are plenty of more genuine resolutions you could've picked, but they wouldn't have fit your narrative as well. Please don't launder Russia's lies just to embellish your point.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

"If Russia says Nazis are bad, than Nazis must be good!"

Liberal politics is just reaction.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I love it, it leads to epic blunders like having an homage to a nazi in Canada because he fought the russians.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but they just expunge that from their collective memory.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's at least one Nazi who fought in the SS buried in the Arlington Cemetery in DC.

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm guessing, based purely on the countries highlighted, that this is a Russian sponsored resolution.

Pretty funny how you saw that all of Latin America, Africa, and Asia voted against genocide, and your first reaction is to call them russian bots.

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

More that Ukraine voted against it and every single Western country abstained. Was I wrong though?

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[-] Manticore@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think its more likely that the abstaining countries rely on America for trade or military in some way and don't want to aggravate them politically but clearly aren't willing to vote alongside them.

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Or, as the other (better informed) guy said. This resolution equates tearing down soviet monuments to be Nazism.

That by extension means it equates Ukraine (the country partially occupied and fraudulently annexed by Russia) with Nazism. Countries which respect Ukraine's sovereignty (and have enough skepticism of Russia to read more than the title) wouldn't want to vote against (because of the title) but also wouldn't want to vote in favor.