• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I don’t really understand the defense of the Russian Federation by contemporary communists. The Russian Federation is about as communist as the US is; if anything, it’s more fascist than the US is. Is it just a Tankie tradition to like Russia at this point?

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      8 months ago

      Russia is essentially an oil company with the added “benefit” of owning an army to protect their business interests.

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      9 months ago

      They are probably infiltrated by the borfarms too. They are as soft as a clay to form them in the needed way. I don’t know about Lemmy, but Reddit has a lot of communitites and users unironically inviting everyone to flee from woke democracies.

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    9 months ago

    I’ve blocked lemmygrad, hexbear and most communities in .ml, would block the whole instance, but there are a few ok communities that don’t have sufficiently active counterparts on less hostile servers.

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    9 months ago

    Another reason why I just straight up blocked it (Together with lemmygrad and hexbear)

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      8 months ago

      Same.

      It’s sad to say, but I’ll never recommend the fediverse to anyone, or even admit to using it, until those authoritarian propaganda instances are way less prominent.