• CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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    He hasn’t. He knows he can get away with any amount of Nazi support just by spouting some liberal bullshit line about democracy and redirecting the people’s animosity towards Russians, which everyone in the West seems to be indoctrinated into hating without a single critical thought.

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    Liberals are on the defensive and Conservatives are using this blunder to their advantage even though they were clapping too.

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    This is embarrassing.

    “We fucked up.” It’s not hard. Blame the intern who invited the first Ukranian of the right age they could find without doing any background on him.

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Except they said “Fought the Russians in WW2” and then everyone clapped. Not one person stopped and thought about it, or threw a jeer.

      Trudeau and Zelenskyy had a 1-on-1 private chat with him before the meeting too, and it’s documented in photos by Hunka’s own granddaughter on social media

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        Except they said “Fought the Russians in WW2” and then everyone clapped. Not one person stopped and thought about it, or threw a jeer.

        Historical ignorance is not an obstacle for attaining a leadership position in many countries. It probably helps. doomer

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        The eastern front of WWII was a three-day fight between Nazis(bad, totalitarian), Russians(bad, totalitarian, communist) and freedom-loving Ukrainian pro-democracy fighters (wholesome chungus)

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      In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

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    They are just dipping their little fascist toes in the water. They will try again and fascism will be accepted. In fact, we already have people sayings Nazis weren’t that bad and Russians were worse, blah blah blah. This was a test.

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      The war in Ukraine has managed to rehabilitate and mainstream fascist ideology in a way that the Charlottesville goobers could have only wished for. Harm reduction my asshair

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    To the Canadian mind, not being allowed to slink away from the consequences of their actions with a meaningless apology is the worst thing on Earth.

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      It’s how we solved the Indigenous rights problem! We just said “Hey sorry aboot that genocide eh?”

      Mind you, if they didn’t accept that we sent the RCMP in to shoot them so their land can be used for more pipelines. But that’s not authoritarian of course, because only Russians and Chinese are authoritarian. Did you know that authoritarianism is actually Latin for “Russians and Chinese”?