I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.
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Tankie scum are so predictable. You're so tied to your CIA/BIA narrative that you can't even think straight. The RFE article cites internal russian judicial decisions which can be further cross-referenced by russian propaganda.
Or are you saying the BIA hacked russian propaganda sources and russian judicial rulings in order to "make the RFE article seem more real"?
Don't lie. Tankie scum denies russian atrocities in Ukraine. "Bucha never happened, tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians aren't held in concentration camps in occupied territories, Ukrainian language and culture aren't prosecuted in occupied territories." I've had multiple tankie roaches tell me this on Lemmy.
But the worst part is that you do this merely due to internet roleplay reasons. You don't speak russian, you don't speak Ukrainian. You've never lived in russia, you've never lived in Ukraine.
You couldn't even use common sense to figure out that stating "BIA wrote that fake article" logically does not work (even if you are a tankie), because you can cross validate it in 30 seconds via a russian language search that clearly shows russian propaganda channels saying the same thing as RFE (and you can even find the formal russian judicial ruling on government websites).
Let's hope Russell Bentley's learning experience is something you and other tankie scum will experience as well!
What is BIA in this context?
I was just mocking the source because it's just a window into how you engage with the world. My dismissive response was because you felt the need to wish the same fate upon me simply by your association.
I'm not denying the story at all, The reporting has been circulating for a while. It was a fucked up situation and the way you revel in it is gross, makes all of your accusations feel more like projections.
I do have family there and I've visited dozens of times over the years. I'm not interested in potentially doxxing myself though, I also have nothing to prove to you. You can continue to believe whatever you want about me, you seem content to believe whatever makes you feel comfortable anyways.
this kinda talk just makes you just sound like a nazi who's found a way to hang out in liberal spaces by vocally hating the people they hate
It's not a window into how I engage with the world. It's an article. How you reacted to it is clearly a window into your world (no one is buying your mea culpa).
So you are vatnik in addition to being a tankie? Worst of both worlds. And a foreign vatnik to boot as well! Those are the most entertaining ones.
Here you go again with your standard tankie polemic copytext. I am not American, in Europe "liberal" means something different.
It is fair and just to wish harm on people who are committed to bring death and suffering to your family, to your fellow citizens. I will note throughout this whole conversation you never once made any kind of statement that perhaps the russian are doing bad things. I wonder why this would be the case?
Don't start with your projection BS.
We both saw that you randomly fantasized about killing some random internet user with an ice pick.
Unlike you, I am not hiding behind anything and playing dumb. You and your tankie scum support genocide and wish me and my family and fellow citizens harm.
As a result, I wish that you and other tankie scum like you end up like the Donbas cowboy.
What exactly am I projecting here? Be clear and specific, don't play dumb.
As I said, earlier let’s hope Russell Bentley’s learning experience is something you and other tankie scum will experience as well!
the same user admitted to being a jerk in the exchange as well, and not proud of their behavior in the runup to that very response. As far as I'm concerned that has been reconciled, even if we disagree.
I'm an anarchist, you are the one who declare me a tankie because at the end it's just a pejorative, like calling me a slur. You then go on contriving positions for me to hold on your mind.
re: calling me vatnik, I find jingoism from any direction off-putting, but go off.
as I said in my previous post, you seem like a Nazi who has latched onto the appropriate targets for the company you keep
Tankie is a descriptive term. A supporter of authoritarian faux-communist regimes (i.e. russia and China). Try telling an average person on the street about "tankie discrimination" and you'll see what I mean.
This makes no sense at all.
I am a Nazi (i.e. I want my own extermination) and to promote my alleged agenda I decided to join LW which in the bigger scope of things means nothing at all (don't forget Lemmy as a whole has a mere ~50K MAU).
Do you even read what you write?
When you call me 'tankie scum' or 'tankie roach' it's a pejorative.
I said:
My meaning is you use language around enemies like nazis do, referring to your (perceived) enemies as subhuman, something to be exterminated. My observation is that it's acceptable in portions of the fediverse to use that sort of language as long as it is directed at an appropriate geopolitical foe (ie russia/russians).
If you're someone who would be targeted by Nazis then maybe you should think with greater depth about recycling their rhetoric.
And why is it wrong to call individuals who oppose self-determination for nations, support authoritarianism and deny genocide, scum and roaches?
Bold words coming from someone who publicly fantasized about killing another poster with an ice-pick (note the pro-Stalinist connection).
An overwhelming majority of russians support imperialism and a strong majority are genocidal imperialists. Just because you claim "this is BIA propaganda", doesn't make it true. And most references by tankies are easy to prove false (as I just did with your "I’m not denying the story at all").
You talk about "greater depth", what does even this mean? You can't even get your basic story right. You claim to have relatives in Ukraine, yet this whole time your sole message has been about white-washing and supporting russian genocidal imperialism (say it ain't so). That's why you are tankie scum! Is this not a reasonable take?
I oppose patriotism and jingoism, which is why you don't like what I have to say. "support self-determination" is something that applies for kosovo but not donbass, it's just 'rules based order' in a trenchcoat.
It's wrong because you're using dehumanizing rhetoric for people you don't know and applying it (in this reply) broadly to entire ethnic groups. It's why I said you sound like a Nazi.
This is what I visualize reading this and knowing you actually just think we're all roaches to be exterminated
You never explain what BIA is, I have no idea what this is referring to in this context
It's actually more of an anti-trotskyist invective
I mean think, using your head, rather than whatever you're using to do your thinking right now.
You can fuck right off with whitewashing the russian occupation of Donbas. You've never lived there and you have no clue what the situation is like. You've also never been to Kosovo or any of the Balkan nations.
Don't act all high and mighty with big words about me being a Nazi and dehumanization, you chimped out and publicly went on a rant about a fantasy to kill someone with an icepick over some internet BS. And you had the gall to go with "the same user admitted to being a jerk in the exchange as well".
Get fucked you tankie "leftist larper" scum!
I am done here.
here's you sounding like a 4-chan Nazi again, you really can't help it when you know you're talking to an untermench like me I guess
Sure thing, Miss "I fantasize to kill you with a pickaxe just like the assassination of Trotsky as ordered by Stalin."
You're not fooling anyone you tankie scum.
Get fucked you lying tankie roach!
plenty of anarchists don't like Trotsky, he famously was the one who killed many anarchists, before he found himself on the receiving end.
you just can't stop sounding like a Nazi though
it was a throwaway dunk 6 months ago because he was complaining about 'not getting a meeting of the minds' when he was rolling up doing this:
If our exchange is anything to go by you probably gleefully fantasize about all your undesirables getting cleansed.
So is this where you hang out now that 4chan is gone?