[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why should the people in those territories that pled for help against the coup government that was slaughtering them for 8 years not be allowed self determination?

And also as an anarchist I don't believe in any legitimacy of either state, but if the people there feel safer under the protection of the Russian federation against the clearly Nazi captured Ukraine government, who am I to tell them what to do?

You talk of Russia trying to install a puppet government but the US SUCCESSFULLY installed a puppet government run by Nazis in 2014.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

What Zionists are doing to Palestine is 100% comparable. Fuck off.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Yes I get offended when glib liberals both sides a fucking genocide.

You are no better than fucking Nazis.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

This goes through my mind every time I read, hear or think the words "but at what cost?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45F0fyXl52Q

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Israeli anarchists are pro Palestine though.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That last part also applies to Crimea.

That happened when I was in the midst of a completely shattered understanding of geopolitics and was piecing things back together with the help of Lenin and co. but I distinctly remember thinking back then "this seems really important but I am distrustful of the narrative that Russia is this cartoon villain invading and annexing people at gunpoint without firing a shot" simply because I had seen how that works in practice the many times the US has ultimately tried to do the same thing (or at least that was always the stated intent with narratives around "Nation Building").

Now obviously Russia is not an altruistic actor here and the Russian government is extremely socially reactionary and corrupt, but that doesn't matter when you're in eastern Ukraine seeking self determination and under siege by a bunch of fascist paramilitaries with the tacit approval of their US backed government that rose to power in a CIA coup.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I'm a white dude from California it's not my place to even make that decision. I mean no offense but this is the most lib response ever.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Facts and Reason

expert-shapiro

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

it was never on.

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains."

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

lmfao. Every fucking time

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

it has even remained the same historically

lmao no it hasn't. It originally referred specifically to people that supported the USSR putting down the Hungarian anti-communist protests. By the time "tankie" became a word (that only really ever had relevance in the UK) Stalin was long dead.

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