• zephiriz@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    And the reason they haven’t had an elections is because they don’t want this guy to be in charge?

    I wonder if I’ll be down voted?

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      3 months ago

      You’re saying that of they held an election, people would either vote for Putin or someone that is pro Russia? I thought Ukraine was united against him…

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      3 months ago

      This totally makes sense if we consider the fact that many westerners don’t consider nonwesterners to be people.

      Colonizers can’t choose the presidents of sovereign nations anymore, the people there do the choosing now, and that makes the colonizers furious.

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        3 months ago

        I’m confused by the comment? Putin is trying to colonize Ukraine. Putin mad because they had a free election to elect the person who is holding his own against an ageing wana be world power in a war going on for years that was supposed to be over in days. Also Putin rig’s his own elections so him demanding is bit well, fix your own shit before you fix someone else. Oh wait Putin does fix his own elections.

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          You’re overthinking it, my comment was purely about the picture you posted

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              Nope, it wasn’t.

              You know the meme with the donkey with swirly eyes screaming “RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA”?

              That’s what the picture reminded me of.

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                Nobody who understands how elections work would ever post this.

                It’s embarassing, and quite obviously centered around Zelenskyy, with also unfair title, as if it’s his fault.

                It’s not, fuck you and anyone who defends this.

                And yes, the whole ML is such a sad excuse of a russian propaganda.

                If there was ever a psyop to bury any chance of a communist revolution, this is it.

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                  Communists are a psyop to turn you against the guys wearing swastikas and killing 14,000 unarmed people, because there will never be a communist revolution if we don’t support those guys.

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                  when embarassing, and unfair, and fuck you, and sad, and russian propaganda, and psyop

                  = when the loser is sore

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          Oh so many downvotes. Boot licking Putin fanbots roam wild over here.

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      3 months ago

      My favorite trope is how libs will inevitably start screeching about Russia when faced with the fact that their ideology is midwifing fascism.

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        Maybe i can think your meme is dumb while also agreeing that the people pictured are libs that I don’t like. I just don’t like dishonesty and your meme is just a dishonest smear instead of something with legitimate or logical basis. You’re crowing about how societies self-govern while under invasion and idk how anyone other than fellow leftists are supposed to glean any meaning from this. How would your society select its leaders and continue to operate under such circumstances? I’m noticing the lack of any ideas being expressed here other than “liberals bad”, which we all already know. This meme is just a lazy preach-to-the-choir meme and a waste of your propaganda efforts, really.

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          The only dishonesty here is in your own comment. We know what alternative systems to liberalism are, and there existing socialist states today. Pretending like nothing better is possible and nobody is offering any alternatives is the height of dishonesty.

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      Putin was chosen by Russian oligarchs after the second sovereign default in 10 years.

      He used to carry luggage for the mayor of St Petersburg, Sobchak.

      An Islamic caliphate started a civil war in the South of Russia before he was chosen, this is why Russian oligarchs needed a man with a military backgound.