I just mention that out of every semi-viable alternative to Putin, none of them want to be nicer to Ukraine and in fact want to use harsher weapons against them.
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Somehow beheading a person is considered barbaric, but dropping a 2000 pound bomb on top of them so that their remains are scattered to the winds is "humane" and "not-involved"
Navalny seems like a pretty good litmus test for whether a critique of Russia/Putin is from an idealist or not. When my lib coworkers were talking about him, I just began reading some of his quotes about the Chechen wars and asked if they believed he had changed his insane right wing attitudes about Putin being too soft. Works pretty well against a liberal who thinks Putin is a Hitler-like figure, though I doubt it made much difference, since people here have unquestionable trust in the Danish state media.
Some of the lunatics are probably going to try to do it as a media-stunt, but whether they will succeed or not is another question. Imagine MTG showing the video of a resistance fighter murking a tank and hanging a hamas headband along with her collection of Hunter Biden dick-pics
Werent those two Zimbabwean parties mortal enemies until the united front happened against Rhodesia? And one of them was Maoist and the other was more orthodox ML and wanted to recruit among the urban proletariat, except Rhodesia had very few of those and quite a lot of angry peasants / landworkers.
They think racist means "bad person", and America's founders, of course, can't be bad people. Also it was more "complicated" back then because nobody knew right from wrong until like eighty years ago. 🙄
This explains why they keep coming back to that menacing picture of Trotsky where they claim that he invented the word "Racist" as a way to shut down free speech. I couldn't really articulate why that one in particular had so much staying power, but I think you solved it for me.
It's legitimately puzzling as a non-american to read about Joe Biden's Senate career. Like, Biden has been on the wrong side of literally every major issue since the mid 70s or whenever he got elected, and seemingly didn't make shit from it. At least a craven asshole like Mitch McConnell knows his worth, and supposedly owns a bunch of oil fields in central asia (at least according to the dimwits who write effortposts on the /r/politics subreddit)
A brave hero goes to Israel and tries to do a citizens arrest of Netanyahu, proceeds to get airholed.
Setting aside the moral case against corruption, American politicians are notoriously cheap to buy, particularly at the federal level. Local politicians are apparently better at getting the bag, at least according to 
Joe Biden was famously the poorest senator, despite being the main sponsor of every single terrible bill getting voted on in the senate. So he seemingly believed so strongly in neoliberalism that he didn't need to receive any money in exchange for writing a dogshit bill that fucked over an entire country.
Listening to Will try to spell his way through a Hebrew name is great. Also makes it impossible for me to look it up afterwards, since the pronounciation and spelling are so far apart.
I think I saw a posting on that site about an old appartment block on Crimea, which I figured was a ballsy move
This was also my opinion when I was like 14 or 15 and almost out of 8th grade. I don't necessarily feel bad about that opinion now, because I was a dumbass teen who spent way too much time on Reddit or speaking to people who might as well have been reddit-clones, but it does make me cringe.