Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep?

• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I know I shouldn’t bite, and it’ll all end in tears, but this bait is too tempting!

  if you don’t listen to the actual reasons people believe things and just assume it’s because Russia used to be socialist

  What, specifically is good about specifically Russia as it is nowadays, from a leftist perspective, that isn’t because it used to be socialist?!

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I never said tankies support Russia because it used to be (allegedly) socialist, I’m saying it’s wild you promote it as AES when it fucking isn’t.

  And I’ve heard the apologia for the Ukraine invasion, and it’s all bullshit.

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not a single person says the Russian Federation is socialism. You’re confusing people critically supporting its movements against the US Empire with people believing it to be socialist. They do have rising socialist sympathies among the populace, but that doesn’t make them socialist.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah already took the correction below.

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Gotcha.

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  • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m saying it’s wild you promote it as AES when it fucking isn’t.

    And I’m saying no one considers Russia to be AES, it’s a strawman that libs tell each other about us until they forget they made it up.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Actually you’re right, I misspoke. The comment said that modern Russia isn’t anywhere near USSR ideals, to which I said makes it even more baffling that tankies support it. A

      So yes, it’s not AES, which makes it obvious that tankies supporting Russia are anti-us campists and not anti imperialists.

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      • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        By that logic, you don’t even need to know my stance on Russia, because the fact that I opposed the war in Afghanistan “proves I’m not anti-imperialist.” The Taliban definitely isn’t socialist either, after all.

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