• anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I’m really confused as to why ‘Russians’ are generalized as the last domino here

    Like, could have easily been ‘Putin’, but even then are we content with stopping at removing despots? Let’s at least aim a bit higher, maybe ‘oligarchy’, or even ‘capital owners’ if we’re being ambitious.

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah. I’ve no problem with the Russian civilians as an American. But I do have a problem with Putin as he seems intent to make himself everyone’s problem just like our wannabe dictators.

      Fuck Tesla. Fuck Elon. Fuck Trump. Fuck corpo pigs

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        2 hours ago

        Right now Canadians and Europeans are wondering “How do we stop America”. And, as an American, I’m certainly not going to obsess over splitting hairs there.

        I don’t think there’s any kind of international aggression these days where it should be implied we’d “go after the civilian population”. Sadly, Israel disagrees.

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      22 hours ago

      Because for a disturbingly large segment of the American population, the Cold War staying cold made it not really register as over.

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      24 hours ago

      I hope there will be revised version soon. I really like the style it delivers the message.

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      19 hours ago

      Americans must externalize their own internal contradictions onto Russia. Liberals be scape-goating.