Hexbear and .ml covering their ears and yelling "lalalalala"
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Nah, Hexbear is cheering the genocide on. They're mask-off at this point.
Look at lemmy.ml and they're on the verge of calling zelensky himself a nazi.
Not really on the verge, many of them have been justifying the invasion because of neozasim in Ukraine, which is indeed a problem, but Russian born Putinesque neofascism is probably not the cure for it.
I'm pretty sure they would say that ukraine shouldn't exsist anyway because the US propaganda is taking over them or whatever.
I am glad to announce you guys that number of tankies here is below 4% according to up/downvotes
It's low enough to know them by their usernames and shame them every time they post something
As long as they're genuine and civil about their opinions, I encourage a space for that discussion. If it's disingenuous trolling or crude propaganda then it becomes a problem.
The general public framing of the war and Russian "denazification" messaging has basically broke criticism of the situation in the mainstream. It's even to the point where you can support Ukrainian people and clearly identify Russia as the aggressor, but if you rationalize how this war didn't come out of nowhere people's alarm bells go up, and immediately you are scrutinized whether you're a Russian troll or not. (There is no measure of sincerity online.)
The shocking thing for me is how quickly people revel in violence the second there's a moral justification for it. Like you see closeups of injured Russians getting grenades dropped on them and see their bodies exploding, and it's almost treated as a moral duty to view this as entertainment, consuming it on the same social media feeds you would memes and friend's family photos.
If it's disingenuous trolling or crude propaganda then it becomes a problem.
That's what tankies do almost by definition. You're talking about the rare breed of communists who aren't tankies.
Russia has all the power - they can end the war as soon as they pull their shitbirds out of Ukraine & Crimea.
And hell, get the fuck out of Georgia while we're discussing. Go home, sign up for a 12 step program and figure out your fucking lives while awaiting the warcrimes charges.
As Churchill said, Nations that go down fighting rise again, but those who surrendered timely were finished. Slava Ukraini
I feel bad for the average Ivan who gets shoved into the meat grinder, except I think those are all sunflower food now and it’s the dregs. The dregs of a brutalist society..
Slava Ukraini! It’s good to see all the weapons we built for this exact purpose being used properly, Vlad is being impaled on our 30 year old dusty stuff