• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I read in the previous comment “american capitalists”. Which is a step up from elsewhere. But yes, also, Russia isn’t anywhere near as bad as the formerly united states. Not when averaged over the past decades since WW2. However, at this very moment, Russia is worse - because for once, that other shithole regime has no hot war ongoing. Unless you count their assistance towards the genocide and otjer war crimes committed against the palestinian people. At which point it becomes a tie again in terms of evilness :(

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      9 months ago

      The former United States? In the same time line that russia has been around, they’ve done way more than the USA has done. You can’t even begin to compare the two. One literally sided with Nazis and has killed millions via famine. The USA has some atrocious imperialism but we’re not russia level of murdering.

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          Yea, I do. We’re not at a civil war yet and people are waking up to the fascist lies and trying to turn the ship around. Can’t exactly say that for russia, which the majority of support the war in Ukraine still.

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            9 months ago

            Well - from the outside it certainly doesn’t look united anymore. And your comparison does not make sense. Russia neither has a civil war ongoing for now, nor are the average citizens discernibly any less or any more brainwashed than in the divided states.

            And from a European perspective, both are threatening our continent & freedoms.

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              9 months ago

              We’re still able to call out our politicians and protest without falling out of a window or being meat fodder for an invasion.

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                9 months ago

                That is no longer true for many people. Just that they don’t fall out a window, they get murdered by rabid pedo-criminal supporters, or shot by “police” or deported by ICE. And being meat fodder for invasions has been the fate of many people from low income sectors for decades. Only that the divided states have mostly focused on invading countries who could not fight back.

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                  9 months ago

                  Compared to china/russia/NK it’s %100 true. I can still protest, and do. Stop acting like the USA has lost everything just because we have a clown show going on.

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                    9 months ago

                    Only a Sith deals in absolutes. If you think 100% anything is a thing in state forms, you are very gullible. I am not acting like the divided states shithole regime has anything, I am observing what is happening. Even in Western Europe, protestors suffer from police violence - in the divided states, more often than not, such violence is lethal.

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          9 months ago

          Rich coming from someone who’s got the mind of a child to think communism is the best thing ever, and it’ll work this time. Lol

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            9 months ago

            “It’ll work this time” lol if people like you made the decisions we would have given up on inventing planes, you’re a coward and a fool