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Interesting how it's only ever Russia that must be held responsible for crimes 🤔
- Well the western countries may be run by bloodthirsty fascists who will murder children without a single thought, but at least they’re white!
  
  A few years ago, a bourgeois colonialist commentator found only this to say in defence of the West: ‘We aren’t angels. But we, at least, feel some remorse.’ What a confession!
  Sartre's preface to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth goes pretty hard
- Chagos is still illegally held by the UK, despite international court rulings

Ecocide? Nobody uses that word. Jesus christ does everything have to evoke the fucking Holocaust when Westerners are describing the things the big bad evil countries doing
- Genocide doesn’t mean anything anymore. This morning my toe was genocided by a corner
- Libs can't discuss violence committed by non-western entities without labelling it a genocide, massacre, or any other -cide because then you can have a discussion about the scale, causality, and nature of the violence.
  These are words that rightfully illicit a reaction of visceral disgust.
  This has a number of effects:
  allows immediate dismissing the motives of parties involved, details of the conflict
  limits sympathetic views towards "the enemy" one could get from attempting to peer through the lens they view the world
  upholds western chauvinism by preventing an accurate portrayal of western and non-western violence
  reinforces thoughtless hatred of anti-imperialist efforts by equating them with some of the most heinous acts in history
  legitimizes western atrocities by selectively applying those labels
  The words are thought terminators and have been fully weaponized to eliminate all understanding of conflict.
  Anyone who is interested in any discussion beyond immediate disavowal and disgust can now be safely dismissed, lest you get labelled a "genocide denier". The discussion of Lemmygrad on other Lemmy instances is a perfect example of how they wield this to misrepresent their views.
  Labelling shit like the Xinjiang allegations and Ukrainian famine as genocide is absolutely a form of holocaust denial. It cheapens very real genocides and massacres in the process by equating mass surveillance and policies that inspired farm owners to destroy crops & livestock with systematic attempts to wipe racial groups and queer people from the face of the Earth. Outside of blood & soil fascists, no one has done more to destigmatize genocide than the people slapping that label on any violence done by enemies of the west.
- I mean if you're going to be a "militant environmentalist" or whatever then blowing up dams is generally a good thing
  
  If so then being a "militant environmentalist” is a bad thing

Unfortunately you guys are expecting way, way too much from Westerners when it comes to the war in Ukraine or anything related to China.
Unless you are an incredibly online internet communist, this is how you view the world
- People: "I am such a huge left-winger omg"
  Me: :doubt:
  
  People like Roger waters are the exception outside of Marxist Leninist circles.
  Roger's father was a card carrying communist party member. It is very probable in my opinion that Roger also is.
  Roger probably shouldn't be interpreted as "outside of marxist leninist circles".

desperately rating the bird-site takes of a 20 year old instead of doing anything fucking useful with my time
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If she were based, she would be celebrating the river's return to a natural, free-flowing state. AnPrim Russia :anprim-pat: :russia-cool:

YES WE WILL DRIVE THEM OFF OUR SOIL
USING OUR BLOOD
SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING WITH THIS :hypersus:

libs really have no idea why the war happened. Just Russian Orcs behaving like bad guys.

- fr, they act like nothing happened between ukraine and russia between the years 2014-2020.
  
  One day Putler just woke up and invaded slava Ukraini. Thank god NATO has been training and arming Ukraine for the last decade to invade Russia and hence Ukraine was able to defend itself.

Tbf almost no one on the left in the imperial core is not rabidly racist against russians rn, especially in the uh „north“

The future is us, pulling a lever marked Lib back and forth forever
- Well you didn't include the link so by the rules of this com you are a lib but by explaining all of this I too am a lib for being a nerd

I am 100% certain that this dam collapsed accidentally. If there wasn't a war on, you could do a proper investigation and assign blame, ie "it was THESE explosives" or "it was THOSE artillery shells", but neither side intended for this to happen and it did because the dam wasn't being properly maintained and was taking collateral damage from the fighting.
- neither side intended for this to happen
  Destroying critical infrastructure has been a strategy of both armies for most of the war.
  It's difficult to know exactly who did it, because it doesn't seem to benefit anyone. But this whole war has been a shit show from the start, so who is to say which group might have thought it would work to their advantage.
  
  I think it's likely that Russia rigged it to blow "just in case", but the fact that it was visibly failing before it catastrophically failed, the fact that there were explosions before and after the collapse, the fact that it seems to fuck over both sides all make me pretty sure it wasn't intentional and now both sides are claiming that the other did it and that it's actually good that it happened as a form of cope.

lol imagine thinking dams themselves are not ecocide

I'm a Marxist-Leninist-Gretaist and I will not explain
- We Exist

Ask her if Epstein killed himself.
That's a good one to separate sane people from weirdos who we should never listen to and actively censor.
- :yes-comm:

What kind of government does Russia have?

She strikes me as young without enough theory. Call me naive for setting myself up to be disappointed by her, but I wouldn't have expected her to have good Russia takes out of the box. She also got some audience with lib royalty, so this isn't a great sign, but she seems capable of alienating libs with socialist rhetoric.
- I mean... war bad.
  You can wax poetic about Who Started It and go down the rabbit hole of which side did which bombing. But this is a war and awful things are going to happen the longer it drags on.
  All the theory in the world won't tell you which side of a European power struggle is righteous. Just ask :lenin-heisenberg:
  What AES states recognize and advocate, and what Libs like Greta ultimately need to understand, is that this war needs to end as soon as possible. Demanding "justice" after every turn of the screw just means everyone in that region gets tortured a little longer.

Wtf Greta blowing up dams is good
Also :doubt: