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Leftists Embracing Imperialist Narratives Laid The Groundwork For This Wave Of Censorship (blackagendareport.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Many on the Latte Left facilitated this new era of fascist censorship. Remember when people didn't care that folks who were accurately assessing the situation between Ukraine and Russia were targeted and silenced?

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[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The regions are only "disputed" because Russia invaded another sovereign nation under false pretenses 9 years ago, brought in their people, set up sham elections, and is now claiming there's a legitimate, native contingent that wants to break away.

Also, while I won't dispute the serial killer analogy (I get it, USA is a shit hegemon), it's again a bit disingenuous because you yourself have enjoyed chopping up boddies from time to time (to keep the analogy going) so the pearl clutching is not as strong of an argument as you may think. Likewise with the cameras: they're setting up cameras in the neighbors yard, not yours (because again, the neighbors house is NOT YOURS).

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was it under false pretenses? As far as I'm aware, the Russian speaking minority really didn't support the regime change and there really does seem to be a Nazi problem and the Euromaidan coup really was antirussian (not Russophobic, necessarily, but certainly opposed to Russia) and it really was endorsed by the West. Those are real things that can be negotiated over, Russia isn't just bloodthirsty orcs.

Also, even if I am chopping bodies myself it's still reasonable for me to not want a bigger and meaner body chopper to be friends with the neighbors or to put missile silos in their yard. That's not pearl clutching, that's just rational national interest.