• @vitaminka
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            for some reason this post really stuck with me

            probably because of the way that it highlighted the fact that the leftists foundations (leftists as in basic human rights, which have shifted to mean full unadulterated communism in the current political overton window) are still there, among the monuments of neoliberalism, neglect and corruption, just gotta brush the dust off, gives me hope :)

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              Yeah, it’s kind of amazing to see that capitalists failed to tear down a lot of these foundations even three decades after the destruction of USSR. One day these ghouls will be overthrown again.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                  A lot of the socialist policies in Europe are also an indirect result of USSR having existed. An example of an alternative system run by the workers meant that concessions had to be made in order to prevent local uprisings. This was a great read on the subject.

              • @marmulak
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                Here in the former USSR, a lot of people say that. They would never live somewhere at terrible as the USA. But the funny part is when you ask them the reason. They say it must be terrible because there’s so many black people, who they often refer to as n******s. Thanks Russia.

                  • @marmulak
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                    Pretty much. The hatred of blacks is pretty extreme and socially transmitted in Russian society. The random comments I hear about them never ends, and also “the Jews” is another favorite topic, along with gays as I mentioned earlier. Russia is not only socially backwards but the Russian state is one of the most corrupt on Earth. People are not happy to live under it, unless they’re totally brainwashed.

      • @marmulak
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        Try getting colonized by Russia and see how you like it

        • @AgreeableLandscapeM
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          Not nearly as bad as getting colonized by Western Europe/the US? Just ask any Indigenous people in North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Hawai’i, we’d be here all day if I listed it all. Don’t pretend that the government of the US/Canada/other “former” European colonies gives a shit about decolonisation when they refuse to give their own Indigenous people rights.

          • @personwithakeyboard
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            -22 years ago

            Being colonized by the US is fucked but it’s also fucked to be colonized by other states. Russia or China are no better. All empires need to die and the sooner the better so that we can fix global warming before it destroys us all.

            • @AgreeableLandscapeM
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              Do enlighten me on what places Russia and China have colonized.

              • @personwithakeyboard
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                Russia is actively warring in Ukraine as we speak and has taken over Crimea to “liberate them”.

                China is refusing to recognize the independence of Taiwan or Hong Kong and actively trying to undermine the authority of the governments elected there.

                Now that’s not to say that Ukraine, Crimea, Taiwan or Hong Kong haven’t felt the influence of the West, far from it. It’s just that the West is not the only ones fucking with them.

                All of these nations are meddling in the internal affairs of other people and they’re doing so for power and profits, not for supporting democracy or to denazify them or for whatever excuses they use.

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                  Crimea

                  Might want to read up on the history of that region. It was ancestrally Russian, and not in some “they were taken over in a war five thousand years ago” way, in a “it was Russian right up until around a hundred years ago” way, the vast majority of the people there are ethnically Russian, and more importantly, they self identify as Russians. They even had a referendum, held by the local government, on whether they’d rather be apart of Russia or Ukraine, a vast majority chose Russia.

                  Hong Kong

                  That’s a new one. China is colonizing Hong Kong is it? Presumably from their rightful fatherland, the British?

                  Taiwan (namely, “not recognising their sovereignty”)

                  How is that colonialism? Ireland doesn’t officially recognize Northern Ireland as not their own territory either, is Ireland suddenly colonizing Northern Ireland now? Or, is North and South Korea colonizing each other since they each think the entire Korean peninsula is theirs? Not recognizing the soverignty of some country isn’t colonizing them lol, those are independent political concepts. It’s also funny how you’re okay with Ukraine owning a piece of ancestral Russian land, Crimea, but simply not recognising an independent Taiwanese government is colonialism. Also, the KMT aren’t native there either, they fled there after the communist revolution in China. Indigenous Taiwanese are a thing and was the majority before the KMT came and. Now they’re only around 2% of the island’s population, which, IDK, might lead the rational to conclude that maybe the KMT were the ones that colonized Taiwan, not the CPC?

                  I was totally expecting you to mention Tibet or Xinjiang or something lol, and was prepared to to argue against those, but congrats, you’ve blindsighted me with examples I thought no rational person would use as their first picks.

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                    No, my point with all of those is that they all want independence but neither the West or Russia and China will let them be. Why do they have to be under an empire at all?

                    And even if Crimea is historically Russian, it’s definitely not purely Russian now, it’s still insanely shitty towards the handful of Ukraineans living there to be cutoff from other people in Ukraine.

                    Also, if Crimea (and Donbass) is supposedly fucked over by Ukraine, how is it helping them to bomb the shit out of them instead of Kiev? If you wanna liberate people from a bad government, attack that government, not the region you’re trying to “save”.

                    All these wars only create horrible conditions for the people living there and they end up hating everyone, the ones ruling them and the ones trying to save them. The next generations will not be very warm towards Russians or Westerners and the cycle of violence will continue.

                    What I would want is for all these empires to stop pushing one culture or another on people that are far away from the capital and central government.

          • @marmulak
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            -102 years ago

            I don’t give a shit about them or your whataboutism. I just want Russia to fuck off. All these idiots on here defending it are just showing that they really don’t know what Russia is like.

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              I don’t give a shit about them

              Assuming you meant the Indigenous people I talked about, nice. Really showed your true colours here.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                72 years ago

                Liberal chuds always inadvertently out themselves like this. They don’t give a shit about anyone in practice, and they just do moral grandstanding. The worst kind of human garbage.

                • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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                  Just wait for the buzzword!! Let me scroll through my Twitter feed for that meme!!! It will own you!!!

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                  You are garbage. I live in Central Asia where it’s all fucked up by Russia here and I just want Russia to fuck off, that’s all.

                  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                    You have shown yourself to be an utter imbecile in these threads, and your opinion means nothing to me.

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              • @AgreeableLandscapeM
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                Misinformation… Like saying that Western Europe colonized the entire world, which they themselves proudly flaunt like it’s their greatest achievement.

                Sure.

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            • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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              You are a disgusting Western chauvinist. And your profile picture of a lizard justifies your mindset.

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                I live in Central Asia, and would prefer Russia to fuck off. If you live further East than me, or somewhere Russia has colonized, feel free to say so. So far everyone on this thread defending the good for nothing, shitty excuse for a state in Russia has proved that they do not live under it.

                So I say to you as well: Go live there.

                • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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                  22 years ago

                  Central Asia? No, I have not seen Russian colonisation. You are mad because you are making up thin air arguments, and are getting the flak for it. Go back to reddit, as MrOzwaldMan said above.

                  • @marmulak
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                    -12 years ago

                    See it first and then talk