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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, that's just realpolitik. It's more advantageous for Ukraine to have Russian nazis attacking Russia than it is to denouce them and deprive them of an operating base. Ultimately, the Russian Volunteer Corps' interests are aligned with Ukraine's interests in that they both want to depose Putin. As odious as it is, it's the way global politics are done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You know what's hilarious? According to the book "The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976", During the height of the Chinese cultural revolution, it became the fashion to wear pins that featured Mao in profile. In fact, if you didn't have one of these, you were seen as a pretender; someone who didn't take the revolution seriously. The problem is, these pins were made of aluminum. Due to the popularity of these pins, China was temporarily denuded of available aluminum. Workers were stripping aluminum shielding off of their machines to make these pins, and there was a thriving black market where people could buy them. So basically, to show off how good they were at communism, they went to the most capitalist of places (the black market) to buy these things. Mao even, at one point, decried the industry, lamenting the lack of available aluminum to make airframes for fighter jets.

But that's the thing - as important as the struggle was to the people in the revolution, it paled in comparison to the need to prove to everybody else that you supported the struggle. If you didn't have one of those pins, you might as well just sign up to be part of the next struggle session.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I had to take a friend of mine to her colonoscopy today, and this was the first thing I saw when firing up lemmy after getting home. It's like the universe is committed to trolling.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Translation: Bjørn Gulden is putting out feelers to see if Kanye is still universally hated for his antisemitic comments so he can decide whether it would be a good business decision to reinstate the Yeezy line.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide people's fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didn't even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOL wut? Fuckin' Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn't even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah, your weird attempts at persuasion via stilted language

I'm not sure you know what the word "stilted" means.

are real fuckin tiring already and I just joined this conversation.

Ok. Well, you're under no obligation to post. Thank you for your contribution, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, so I guess we can add "poor reading comprehension" to the list.

I did not make excuses for nazis. The person that I was responding to made an incredibly slippery slope argument, and I was using hyperbole to point that out. If you don't understand that, I suggest you take a remedial class in English at your local community college.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, I had very good reason to insult them. If you would like to know my reasons, I'm more than happy to discuss it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, does that mean that you cannot articulate an answer, or just that you don't choose to?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone that disagrees with @[email protected] is insane and deluded, a bedtime story for smug crybully liberals.

Well, I didn't say that. You did. And I disagree with it. What I said is that "hexbearians" are generally delusional, and I feel pretty vindicated in that assessment by the many, many posts by them in this thread. As an example of delusion, you decided that you know enough about me to infer that I believe that everybody whose opinions differ from my own must be delusional, despite very little evidence to back that claim up.

Fucking rich that you cry about “combativeness” when you lead with the above post.

Pointing something out that is true is not crying. And yes. You're very combative.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Uh... how's that, then? Don't worry - I don't work as a road paver.

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