MaeBorowski

Is this sarcasm? The venn diagram that represents overlap of what nazis believe & value vs what the CIA believes & values may not be a perfect circle, but it's fairly close.

Communism allows everyone to pretend to have free stuff by declaring those that actually make it less than human

I know you've been banned (not unreasonably so) and can't respond, but if you truly believe what you wrote above, you owe it to yourself to find out how you've been lied to. Communism at its most fundamental core is about alleviating the exploitation done to "those that actually make it" (workers). Communism elevates everyone to personhood, as opposed to capitalism that only does so for the ownership class.

When a person sees no value in challenging their misconceptions, but only a threat to be shunned, it makes sense they would say that, yeah.

If .worlders could see hexbear and lemmygrad, they'd have an aneurysm. But then some of them would recover and look further into it and realize the commies are right. But that is of course why they're not allowed to see it, as you said.

Oh, you mean like how in the US, famously even, it was literally made illegal to be a communist and you were blacklisted by every institution for having even attended a meeting, while known communist revolutionaries were assassinated at every opportunity, some even openly murdered in their beds by cops? Yes, it is disgusting how capitalism mercilessly crushes those who seek human liberation and how in a sick capitalist society it is taboo to even identify as someone who seeks the well-being of all.

Seriously, please answer those of us asking what you're talking about. I am asking in good faith, what blog? The people you are talking to are as far from alt-right as it is possible to get and probably advocate for the elimination of alt-right ideology in a much more definitive way than you do (assuming you are a liberal).

Just take a look at any mainstream western media that mentions China and it shouldn't take too long to spot a lie, it will probably even be in the headline. Even just the fact that it's practically a joke-meme that anything China does that is unambiguously positive will get a headline in the west that includes "But At wHaT cOsT?!?"

But for a few obvious, overt examples: Uighur "genocide." Spy balloons. Winnie the Pooh ban. Social credit scores.

Sounds like we’re in agreement that Russia broke the ceasefire by invading.

Not really, no. A ceasefire becomes void when on of those who agreed to it starts, you know, firing.

It doesn't matter whether Germany was forbidden from "assisting" Ukraine, the point is that it is openly known that the West had no intention of honoring the agreements and used them only as a ploy. If you want to cynically claim 'that's just shrewd military tactics, it's Russia's own fault for believing NATO/Ukraine's coup regime promises, ceasefires don't mean shit, lol!' then fine, but you can't then hold the position that Russia are the ones who can't be trusted with agreements or that they are the ones who broke the agreements.

There was nothing in the Minsk agreement that said Ukraine couldn’t defend itself from future invasions.

There was plenty in there about not continuing to shell Donetsk, which of course they did, frequently killing civilians.

Surely, if Russia is indeed so benevolent,

Who is calling Russia "benevolent"? In fact I specifically said that Russia is probably only making the offer because they know it won't be accepted.

Ukraine wouldn’t need them going forward in this hypothetical peace?

Why wouldn't they? I'm genuinely not sure why anyone would think such a thing. Like do you think that just because they tentatively accept this peace offer they will suddenly be fully propped up economically by Russia after having completely handed over their public assets to NATO countries, largely in exchange for the weapons that have allowed them to put up the resistance that they did against Russia? Do you think that countries exist in their own vacuum and there wouldn't be massive repercussions (read: severe consequences) for breaking with the western countries they have relied on since 2014 and outright depended on since 2022? And that's Ukraine as a whole irrespective of who is currently running it...

Most of that becomes secondary when you consider that the current government Ukraine (the 'regime,' if you will), the people who make it up, have an interest in maintaining their own positions, as is true for literally anyone holding a position of power. Above reasons aside, that current leadership of Ukraine would not remain the leadership long without NATO regardless of whether or not they accepted this offer if they didn't have NATO backing. Said government and NATO are inextricably tied, said government only exists because of NATO. So I doubt that government wants to accept the peace offer either and isn't necessarily in their best interests even if it absolutely is in the best interests of the Ukrainian people, especially the ones being forcibly conscripted to go die on the front in a war they don't want to even be involved in.

This is very acceptable to anyone rational. Russia can (and probably will) end up taking a lot more. Putin is not serious about this proposal only because he know the fascists in control of Ukraine's military won't accept it or any other peace offerings until every last Ukrainian other than themselves has been forcibly conscripted and killed.

lol gottem.

I have to admit, it is amusing to watch bootlickers fail to keep up with The Narrative. It's understandable when they're only a couple talking points behind, because it must be hard for anyone to keep up with all that shifting bullcrap. But often enough I'll still see lines trotted out like "Russians are fighting with shovels and are amazed to see paved roads." It's very rare but every now and then it's still possible to come across someone who brings up the Ghost of Kiev and still believes it.

Apparently at least 134 lemmy users who claim to support Ukraine seem to think that yes, Ukraine should be flattened rather than have peace. With friends like these, who needs enemies? But then it's pretty clear that most of them don't actually care about Ukrainian people, since it's fine with them that Ukrainians who want nothing to do with it are being conscripted and forced to fight against their will and die so long as that mean old Putler doesn't get his way!