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ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

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[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Normal country

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I find people in general tiresome. They all do this shit to us for some reason or another. Makes it hard not to have hard feelings about the whole thing.

[-] voight@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Being against the Uganda anti-homosexuality act doesn't mean you stop supporting anti-imperialist struggle and freeing Africa from the debt system.

I don't know what it is about Russia being a bit more developed and having a capitalist government which has shifted a bit towards nationalization of resources since the collapse of the USSR that makes people think "imperialist predation on this country demands neutrality" whereas the same issue is obvious to them in Africa. Except when it's Ethiopia... man all it takes is Radio War Nerd to be like "fuck these guys" 😩😫😩😩😫 and they have an army of these chumps out of nowhere

Most propagandized people in history fr fr

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[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is definitely a reactionary imperialist rag, but I don’t think we have to say stuff like this is good to practice revolutionary defeatism. It might seem pointless to say stuff like this is bad, then, but believe it or not there are ways solidarity benefits people internationally that aren’t as justifications for violent imperialism

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Well that's one way of cleaning up. Time to sort through the mess.

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[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Why would anyone here give Russian critical support? This site confuses me

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Because Russia is a powerful country aligned against US interest, of which the US is to blame for the majority of the continued existence of homophobia and reactionary values across the entire planet.

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