As I’ve said in a few of my comments here on Lemmy, even if you didn’t personally experience the Soviet Union in its “prime”, you must have heard first-hand stories about it from your parents or grandparents. Most of those who glorify the Soviet Union in these English-speaking spaces can’t even say as much. Their whole understanding is built on propaganda viewed through the selection bias of “the enemy of my enemy” logic.
Your argument is like saying that if Candace Owens has power, there’s no systemic anti-Black racism in the US.
For so many years, russians have been portrayed as tough in Hollywood films and video games, but it should have been Ukrainians all along. In the USSR, all but the people at the top were oppressed or restricted in some way, but at least russians were not viewed as second-class (unless they were Jewish, among other things). Meanwhile the people of Ukraine (and those of other Soviet republics) had to deal not only with the Nazis but also with the Soviets, both of whom viewed them as inherently inferior.
And those often happen to be “woke”. Baldur’s Gate 3, Hades, the Spider-Man games, etc.
Steam enabling racism? What else is new?
Is the author a tankie or something? What’s wrong with Company of Heroes 2? I enjoyed it, and the main complaints I saw were from Russians unhappy with the game taking a shot at the Soviets and bringing up things like Order 227. Even so, the game didn’t even portray the Soviets as the bad guys.
Edit: And it’s not just me. The game is currently rated Very Positive on Steam.
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Precisely. Even when he didn’t appear to be full-on MAGA yet around 2022 or whenever he first tweeted about Ukraine, it was a pro-Russia take.
I don’t think Trump has any real interest in Ukraine as a country. He likes Putin and he likes business opportunities. There’s nothing more to it.
Epic used Gemini to power its Darth Vader, so it might be related to AI indeed. To add to that, Epic has introduced an AI chat for Unreal Engine developers, acquired the AI asset tagging tool Loci, and enabled AI for its support system to handle requests before a human operator steps in. I also believe they use AI as a screening tool for its new text chat feature (and maybe its new forums), but I have no proof for this part.
It may have lost its grip on the Middle East, but it’s had major gains in the West, where the far-right parties and candidates backed or financed by Russia have had significant wins. In Africa, the Wagner-backed president of the CAR was “re-elected” just last month.
He was on the list, but I couldn’t find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.
Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.
Funny how even that article essentially concludes that the war in Ukraine stands in the way of Russia taking it to Europe and that the Ukrainian people need support. Of course that had to be omitted from a community called “Death to NATO”. Still, even on the tankie instance, a top comment from another tankie instance user is “Its from a sensationalist rag though. I can trace most of the dumb shit my uncle tells me back to them.”
Trump’s peace in Ukraine promises are like Russia’s 3 day war.
Putin has a long track record of killings, persecutions and rights violations over more than two decades of fascist leadership. Neo-Nazism has been state-sanctioned under Putin, with powerful and wealthy allies like Prigozhin not merely espousing the ideas but quite literally torturing and murdering people in Syria and Africa, both to further Putin’s political goals and to act on the Wagner members’ internal hatred of non-white people. If anything, people like Nikitin, his friend Tesak, and many others of that scene, were also a product of Putin’s Russia, where street-level neo-Nazis were financially supported by the government and used for political reasons in the early 2000s, when racially motivated hate killings were on the rise. Nikitin’s neo-Nazi ideas or even hate-fueled brawls in Europe were like child’s play compared to the actual fascism of Russia under Putin.
Same here. I play strictly solo and it feels like about 70% or more of my encounters are with friendly people. Occasionally, people stab in the back or I get shot and killed on sight, then next game do the latter to someone else to mentally make up for the losses, but that’s not too common.
Same as NATO in that Russia has already attacked NATO countries via sabotage operations, having drones, planes and missiles in their airspace, and hacking, among other things, but never been met with any equal response.
Resorting to the damsel in distress trope in 2025. 🤦 But hey, it’s Capcom.
There was a comment in this community saying that Russia’s Shaheds are no more. No idea if true.