• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Try posting a meme critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to lemmy.ml’s meme community. If it isn’t immediately taken down for “rule 1: uncivil”, you will catch some people pasting long entries defending Russia in the comments with varying degrees of civility. These will be the ones we call tankies.

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      3 months ago

      It’s so goofy that they support modern Russia, a right wing empire that backs fascists worldwide. I get not liking the US or the liberal world order, but Russia trying to build a competing empire is not anti-imperialist. You can’t solve imperialism with imperialism. It’s like trying to solve capitalism’s problems with capitalist solutions.

      There isn’t even plausible deniability like with the USSR. It’s an explicitly ethnocentric government of blood and soil rhetoric 🙄

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        There isn’t even plausible deniability like with the USSR. It’s an explicitly ethnocentric government of blood and soil rhetoric 🙄

        It’s insane. Defending Putin’s actions even against Putin’s own words.