LemmeAtEm

Appreciate the informative list of links! (Very common u/davel W).

Also lol at my comment being reported to mods as propaganda for stating a simple, verifiable fact. Always funny how the dronies think it's "propaganda" just for going against what they want to believe even when their beloved western sources reported on it back before it became no-no to do so. (A NATO No-No, if you will). I'd ask what instance the [redacted] reporter was from, but I guess that might give away exactly who it was.

The Eastern provinces that the neonazi-led Ukrainian government was ethnically cleansing, and who had been asking for Russia's help (and to join Russia) since long before February of of 2022? Yes. Yes, they should be Russia.

Russia is much more democratic than Ukraine. While Russia is unfortunately still capitalist and therefore ruled by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, it is no less democratic than the western countries - countries that are also bourgeois dictatorships - that call Russia autocratic as a convenient way to demonize their enemy. Meanwhile Ukraine is ruled by a fascist coup regime installed by NATO, a regime that has indefinitely suspended elections and regularly kidnaps members of its population off the street in unmarked vans to be sent off to the front lines of the war as cannon fodder. It is the most openly neo-Nazi country on the planet, much to the consternation of western journos and politicians who have to keep making excuses and trying to redirect everyone's attention away from the swastikas and cult-like deference to a dead Nazi nationalist.

So if you're disregarding the previous comment because you think its sources are dubious all because they report on topics you find distasteful, it's time you started questioning the sources that you have mistakenly trusted, the ones that are telling you the lies about Ukraine that you seem to have swallowed without any critical thought or questioning.

Hopefully we can all agree at least that yes, China is far more democratic than any of the above in that its people can and do effect change in the system that governs them, and they are almost universally happy with their government.

The "tankie" instances are the least likely to have bots. They're the most vehemently anti-AI and the moderators most active in banning any kind of bot-like activity. Hexbear, the one that all the dronies clutch their pearls about most and accuse of brigading the most doesn't even have downvotes - they are incapable of mass downvoting.

Diseases did not conquer hundreds of tribes.

Disease played a major role in the European's ability to conquer those tribes. It's not an either/or situation. It is true that the "Americas" that the English started colonizing had already been devastated by the contagions brought by the Spanish. The English undoubtedly would have found it far more difficult and maybe even impossible to conquer those hundreds of tribes had they not first been so severely depopulated by pandemic. Acknowledging this does not absolve or even lessen the atrocities committed by the English.

Why even post a link to that comment? Do you think it's a good example of... well, anything? It's yet another ignorant lemoid lib pearl clutching about something they know nothing about while thinking they owned the tankies but actually just embarrassing themselves by revealing they have no idea what they're talking about. There's no insight or anything new, just making up a strawman ironically by accusing "tankies" of making a strawman. Are you directing us there to so we can point and laugh at how stupid the sinophobic liberals are? If that's the case, then fair enough.

Why even post a link to that comment? Do you think it's a good example of... well, anything? It's yet another ignorant lemoid lib pearl clutching about something they know nothing about while thinking they owned the tankies but actually just embarrassing themselves by revealing they have no idea what they're talking about. There's no insight or anything new, just making up a strawman ironically by accusing "tankies" of making a strawman. Are you directing us there to so we can point and laugh at how stupid the sinophobic liberals are? If that's the case, then fair enough.

Not from what I've seen at all. The people who insist on calling Palestinians (and any Arab people who oppose Zionism) "terrorists" are often the same people frothing at the mouth about how we have to smash the Russian "orcs." Granted, this isn't limited only to Germans, but I've definitely seen it specifically from them as well.

Voters should vote for those who represent their interests. If any candidate is endorsing (let alone committing) genocide, and that is a violation of a given voter's interests (and it damn well better be), then that voter should not vote for that candidate, period. If there are only 2 options and both are genocidal, then neither should be rewarded with a vote. You want "harm reduction"? Then vote for PSL - if your liberal obsession with voting has convinced you that voting has any power whatsoever, then don't use it to reward genocide, use that power to say no to it entirely. If your position is that "we live under a system where we are getting genocide no matter what" then rather than going "well, there's a chance this one might be one iota less genocide" maybe start coming to the correct conclusion that the system is indeed irredeemably rotten and rigged FOR genocide, that it is designed to be this way which makes all of that system your enemy, not just the orange team that says the quiet part out loud too much, but also the one that smiles politely and gives the right lip service while literally, not figuratively, but very much actually mass murdering children. Yep, that blue team is your enemy too. So now it's time to get down to the hard work of building alternative power structures through organization in direct defiance of the genocidal machine, having done away with your petty red(orange)/blue team false dichotomy. Join us in actually working for a better world rather than tossing up your hands and voting for the genocidaires that cry crocodile tears and pretend it's such a sad state of affairs as they massacre little kids for power and profit. You aren't actually beholden to support them. They aren't the "lesser" evil, they're just another piece of the entire evil machine!

You seem to lack the reasoning capacity of most toddlers. The US war machine is committing genocide. Both the democrats and the republicans fully and unreservedly support and represent that US war machine. The genocide was started under one genocidal maniac (Biden) and continues under another (Trump). You weren't getting "genocide-lite" when Biden, the one who ensured the genocide began and commenced without impedance, was in office and you aren't getting "genocide-plus" now that the other genocidal maniac is in power. You are being played for a fool by a good-cop/bad-cop routine that is so plainly obvious it makes me literally wince to see fools be taken in by it. But of course they are, because it's easier to pretend you made some difference by voting rather than actually doing anything to help the people literally being genocided right now. (Those of us who would never vote for fascists as the commit genocide are the ones sending aid directly to Palestinians while you whine about your team of blue fascists not being the ones in the big boy chair while the genocide commences and wagging your finger pathetically at the people who actually fight for justice. You aren't fucking helping "lessen" the genocide by voting for the people who started it and ensured it continued on into the next term. People like you disgust me.

It's a shame you're unable to see which flags are swastikas while you go on supporting them.

Spoken like a true commie

Indeed it is, hence it being absolutely correct.