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You'd think the libs at Harvard would mention this. How do you think this actually works?

Better explanation: China has lifted 800 million out of poverty over 40 years, and quality of life has improved massively for almost everyone (also things that are confirmed by western institutions). Why would they not approve of the government?

Who's doing the blood and soil thing? Is it the people flying the literal blood and soil flag? Nah couldn't be!

Flawed democracy my ass, Zelenskiy is doing the opposite of what he promised and was elected for, has criminalized the opposition and consolidated the media. The Nazis have complete freedom to operate and state backing.

Zelenskiy is an imperialist because he is sacrificing (more like throwing away) Ukrainian lives for the benefit and under the direction of the US empire. He's a collaborator.

Russia (all the former socialist countries really) actually were colonized in the 90s. Those countries are being exploited by western capitalists and controlled through western capitalist media and NGOs, and therefore do not have sovereignty or democracy. There's some pushback (like Orban), but the only country that actually managed to free itself from the imperial domination was Russia (they fucked Russia too hard and it flipped). The empire then baited Russia into a war to weaken them. They activated their old pals the Ukrainian Nazi shits they worked with during the cold war and by attacking ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine they made it impossible for the Russian leadership to ignore this situation.

You think the Ukrainian army is not committing war crimes? First ethical army ever. You wouldn't expect these guys with the SS Totenkopf patches to be this standup, but here we are, clean as a Wehrmacht. Oh wait! They shelled civilians regularly since 2014. Maybe they should have stopped like they agreed to and this whole thing could have been avoided? Nah it's all Putin's fault.

Which one of the two has the imperialist mob boss in power?

Zelenskiy isn't really the boss now is he?

And on the colonialism: Look at all that Soviet infrastructure in Ukraine. Pretty good, pretty similar to how it looks in Russia, right? Living standards, education level, life expectancy, all that stuff was pretty similar between Russia and Ukraine in 1989. Now look at West Africa. Does that look like France to you?

Evil Soviet colonialists, bringing infrastructure and healthcare and factories and public pools!

Kenji Lopez-Alt

https://www.youtube.com/@JKenjiLopezAlt/videos

The GoPro format is great, you can see what he does with his hands and you see all of the cooking, with practically zero cuts in the video. All the while he explains why he's doing the things you see.

Are you reframing the arming and promoting of SS worshipping white supremacists as some sort of clever antifascist tactic? Seriously anybody helping with resurrection of the genocidal Nazi ideology in Ukraine needs to be tried at Nuremberg. Russian conservative brainworms are far from "master race must cleanse the land of untermenschen" type shit, of course that's better. How is this even a debate?

Soll das ein Scherz sein? Die Polizei verprügelt hier regelmäßig Demonstranten, und nachher kommt der Richter und verurteilt die Opfer auch noch. Der einzige Grund warum du nicht verprügelt wirst, ist weil du entweder die eh unterstützt oder die dich für ungefährlich halten. Wenn es in Deutschland ein revolutionäres Potential gäbe, würde die SPD auf die Demonstranten schießen lassen, so wie vor 100 Jahren. Die machen mit auch ohne Not beim Ertränken von Geflüchteten mit und beim Erschießen von Yemenis und beim Aushungern von afghanischen Kindern. Was meinst du, zu was die fähig wären, wenn's mal wirklich um die Wurst ginge.

Blödsinn, undemokratische Staaten werden am laufenden Band akzeptiert. Die Kultur vor 4000 Jahren ist eine ganz andere die heutige, und ganze Kulturen als (un)demokratisch abzustempeln ist sehr problematisch. Das "Hauptproblem" (wieso ist das in Anführungszeichen bei dir?) ist wie immer der Kapitalismus. In diesem Fall wollen die Imperialisten nicht eingestehen, dass die chinesische Konkurrenz sie überholt hat. Und deswegen wird uns erzählt, wie schlimm die Chinesen doch sind, damit wir bei ihrem Handelskrieg mitmachen wollen.

Zelenskiy just a couple of weeks ago did a photo op with Azov fighters. The Ukrainian government gives money and arms and propaganda support to Neo-Nazis. No other government does that. Even Russian Neo-Nazis are fighting for Ukraine. Yes the Ukrainian government is ethnonationalist.

Zelenskiy:

There are indisputable heroes. Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine. But I think that when we name so many streets, bridges by the same name, this is not quite right.

Such a brave push back on the Nazis. He has a point. Naming every street and bridge after Bandera is going to be confusing, I'm sure the Nazis will agree.

We’re not sending anyone to their death. Ukrainian soldiers are doing the fighting, not American ones.

Mask off moment. Ukrainians aren't even people to you. Most of them are conscripts forced to be on the front line.

You want to abandon the people in Ukraine to fuckers with SS Totenkopf patches on their uniform? Yeah that's historically gone fucking great for Ukrainians. I can't possibly imagine why they'd be against.