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https://lemmy.ml/comment/16305748
Simple competition gaslighting. The bigger the better.
I’ve literally seen "but Ukraine has Nazis” before.
Edit. Thanks everyone. I don’t need an explanation. I’m just saying that if I cared to, I could pull those receipts.
It probably is true. I'm sure there is at least on Nazi in the entirety of Ukraine.
Does that justify invasion? No, not really
First-off, fuck Putin and fuck Russia, second-off Azov Brigade have confirmed neo-Nazis in their ranks.
Edit: fuck China too.
second-off Azov Brigade have confirmed neo-Nazis in their ranks
That goes for pretty much every single military in the world unfortunately. It's not really worth singling them out when there are Russians running around with black sun symbols and SS-Skulls at the same time.
Besides, Ukraine has done a huge amount of work to clear up these elements and pretty much none of the founding members of Azov remain in active service. The entire brigade has been almost fully replaced after Mariupol.
So does Russia though. So does Israel and I'm pretty sure Hamas also has a ton of hardcore reactionaries. I never understood what that argument is meant to achieve except spread disinfo
The last director of the Russian space agency was recorded speaking at a neo-nazi gathering. And the guy who gave the Wagner group its name had a tattoo of the nazi eagle and the SS logo on each of his shoulders. I mean, if you wanna condemn an entire country for having a few nazis, the list of Russian nazis is a lot longer. We'll be here for hours.
You look at any nation's army and you see a bunch of nationalist assholes there, no exceptions. Some of those are literally neo-nazis. Azov is has pretty high concentration of those, it was a non-government lead army comprised of uktra-nationalists and for sure was problematic as hell.
Ukraine took over Azov when the war escalated in 2022, and they're using Azov as any other battalions in the defence of their country because they need men and these men are willing to give their lives to defend the country, and that's what Ukraine needs right now - without it there would be no Ukraine anymore.
Of course it's easy to yell at Nazi from the safety of your home thousands of kilometres from the country being invaded by an army lead by a shitbag in a bunker, but Ukraine needs every single one of these men to prevent being absorbed into another oblast in the Ruzzian empire. Sometimes bad people end up doing good things
That being said, every Nazi deserves to be fucked in the face with a brick
Sorry for drunk rambling
Can't help but feel the creation of a hard right organisation is a natural out come of an invasion of your territory
It's also akin to an invasion of the Bible belt in the US. There were nazis there, that doesn't mean they deserve to be invaded.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, now.
The best propaganda uses elements of truth or even wholly true premises. It’s the conclusion that’s wrong (“therefore we should X”).
Not a good example. "Defending X" is a much stronger requirement than just "pointing out that a specific argument against X is invalid"; the latter is done by everyone who likes seeing good arguments rather than bad arguments, and isn't a sign of liking X.
(The most pro-russian (as in, supporting the russian-ukraine war) stuff I've seen was various memes from lemmy.ml and lemmygrad that ended up in popular. I'm having trouble finding a better example than that; in particular, because Lemmy's search is bad and doesn't seem to allow for searching recent comments from a specific instance, and also refuses to give me more than a few pages of results.)
Classic sealion. No matter how much evidence you provide to one of them, they'll find any reason to invalidate or ignore it and continue prodding.
Their favorite words used to "debunk" anything you say;
Propaganda, conspiracy, projection.
Anything you say will be one of the three. And everything they say is the real truth.
It's like playing chess with a pigeon. They're just gonna shit on the board, fly away and say they won.
Pretty braindead position to take when Yog is posting pro-Russia propaganda memes straight to the front page of memes.ml on the regular.
Ahhh, yogthos.... he's definitely my least favorite 6-figure earning IT dipshit living in Toronto.
I wonder why he won't move to russia?
Or so he claims.
The dude posts and comments like it's his full time job.
Yeah gee I wonder why? I hear Russia is great these days!
It's not that his online persona is completely fake and he doesn't have the courage to fight the good fight or whatever else it may be.
Morally compromised inhalant abuser.
I used to say it jokingly, but holy shit I really miss the 90s and early 2000s before everything was full of nazis, bots and ads.
There were lots of Nazis back then too I’m afraid.
Yes, but not out in the open, not on every site I visit, not in the literal advertisements being forced on people, not by the president and his minions in broad daylight. No one can seriously pretend things are the same as they were back then.
Here ya go, Scruff. By the way, one of the admins there will refuse to answer if they are asked if they support Russia.
This didn't link me to anything
Did it take you to lemmy.ml?
Oh I think i see, by linking directly to ml they're saying you can look anywhere and find that... ok I guess it was a semi woosh in the wrong direction
You’re all good! It was a longshot of a point to make. It’s a bit hard to land those.
I hope someone linked them to some relevant hexbear threads.
These cretins can't have an honest discussion if their lives depended on it.
.ml is truly just a self help forum for inhalant abusers.
Defending Russia is the most restrictive definition of Tankie.
Strong "I don't support Trump, I just don't like Harris" vibes here.
"Nothing changes in the middle east, they're both just equally genocidal candidates."
Meanwhile:
Trump: "I think we should just clear out Palestine, force all of them into Egypt and Jordan. Btw did you know those 2000 lbs bombs Israel bought were halted and just sitting in storage? I made sure those got sent out ASAP."
