• @[email protected]
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    517 months ago

    I swear to God there were pictures of people at Jan 6 wearing “Better Dead than Red” shirts, of the sort that have been around since at least the 80s if not earlier. Expected, predictable, cold war era bumper sticker phrasing on a shirt that I’m pretty sure I’ve been seeing worn by roughly the same kind of personality all this time. The kind of personality who was still calling Russians “the commies” ten years ago.

    It’s as if the right forgot all their decades of being ready to kill Russians/Soviets at the drop of a hat, to immediately turn Putin into one of their folk heroes. I get that’s the power of corruption but like - do we just pretend this wasn’t the most vocally anti-Russian segment of US society up until roughly 4 years ago?

    • @something_random_tho
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      217 months ago

      I don’t know what you’re saying. We’ve always been at war with Oceania.

    • @EisFrei
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      177 months ago

      The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

      • @Jesusaurus
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        67 months ago

        Putin shoving his hand up Trump’s ass and making him speak like a puppet

      • @grue
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        47 months ago

        Communism (which they hate) ended and was replaced by fascism (which they love).

    • @grue
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      117 months ago

      They were never “anti-Russia.” They were anti-Soviet. Russia flipped from communism to fascism, so they flipped from hating to loving it.

      There’s a lot of things that are inconsistent and hypocritical about conservatives, but their attitude towards Russia isn’t one of them.

      • @[email protected]
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        137 months ago

        I have many recollections of conservatives in my sphere not distinguishing Russia from the USSR, so we have had different experiences in this regard.

        • @grue
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          17 months ago

          That’s just them being slow on the uptake. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @[email protected]
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      117 months ago

      that’s the power of corruption

      mostly St Petersburg bot farms I’d say. Corruption at the top of the GOP helps but that’s not what turns millions of people around in a couple of years.

  • Cyborganism
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    Macron is right to encourage Europe to build their own military weapons. In the eventuality that Trump gets re-elected, they’re gonna get fucked over by Trump pretty bad and won’t be able to rely on the US for any help against Russia. Putin will start taking over all of the old Soviet countries in Eastern Europe and things are going to get worse.

  • @eran_morad
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    187 months ago

    Suggest we not help the blyats spread propaganda.

    • TragicNotCute
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      47 months ago

      Yeah, but is this swaying literally anyone?

        • TragicNotCute
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          137 months ago

          We’ve all been down bad, but have you ever been Putin romance propaganda down bad?

          • @Illuminostro
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            Myself? No. But I’m sure there’s some woman who was raised on an Aryan Brotherhood compound in Idaho who it gets hot and bothered.

  • @[email protected]
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    87 months ago

    As much as I can’t fucking stand “Trutin” or, “Putump,” or whatever we call that amalgamation of human filth….

    This reads like a left-wing attempt to make you think someone on the right said this.

    Or… wait….

    are they really openly supporting Puttie like this now?

    • @SPRUNT
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      57 months ago

      Yes. They see Putin as strong, and Trump as America’s Putin.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      77 months ago

      It’s Facebook. Even if it was made ironically, it would get passed around by true believers.

  • @niktemadur
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    It’s like I stood across the fifty foot-long table, through the two inch-thick glass, and peered into his soul.

  • @x4740N
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    27 months ago

    Who is cSnapma

  • ZILtoid1991
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    27 months ago

    That is like the most terminally online language I’ve seen in one of these memes…

  • athos77
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    17 months ago

    Never. But I’ll play along to see if I can get rid of one or both of the bastards.