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Turns out tankies never really cared about any of that (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] supernight52@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you can't be for human rights and also dick ride imperialists with human rights violations throughout the last decade, right?

I feel like the human rights violations in Russia and China have been going way longer than a decade.

[โ€“] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

for sure, they have. it's just usually for defenders of jingoism they tend to have the awareness to pick empires whose bloodshed has at least dried for a couple years. or got swept a little further under the rug. you know, with some discretion. let alone why someone would support an empire at all