• ikidd@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Fuck off with that “and Russians” crap. They aren’t even vaguely comparable situations.

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        1 year ago

        They aren’t even vaguely comparable situations.

        In this sense they absolutely are. No different than Iraqis, Afghans, Panamanians, Vietnamese… etc.

        In every other way, no - Putin can end this war any damn time he feels like. But that doesn’t mean the US military-industrial complex isn’t going to milk this for all it’s worth.

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          Nah, you just framed the Russians as victims equivalent to the Palestinians and now you just did a 180 to pretend you meant to frame Russia as the aggressor when you actually didn’t. You know we can read your text, right?

          Killing the palestinians (and russians) don’t matter to them it’s just another funnel from our effort into their pockets.

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            Nah, you just framed the Russians as victims equivalent to the Palestinians

            Nope. I framed them as something the US military-industrial complex makes money out of.

            now you just did a 180

            Nope. I did a 0 degree turn and is still facing the exact way I was.

            You know we can read your text

            Are you sure you are capable of that?

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              1 year ago

              Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt with you shills, is it?

              It’s not gonna work here, though. For all that Lemmy sucks ass, at least the users have a modicum of common sense. Good luck overcoming that. Dasvidaniya

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                To be fair, they were talking about war profiteering, not genocide. We are definitely happy with Ukraine being at war with Russia as far as war profiteering goes. And as much as Putin sucks, and any country may suck, it doesn’t mean their citizens should be killed endlessly. The people there are still human, even if their leaders are terrible. But rather than doing something to try and stop the war, the US would rather use it to funnel money to our arms dealers. Which is a problem, even if the enemy is bad, killing all the Russians should never be the goal. Stopping the war should.

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                  I am not implying that at all obviously. No one is. In fact I don’t know a single pro-Ukraine person who can’t differentiate between Putin’s regime and the Russian people.

                  The Ukraine war is just Putin’s Iraq.

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              I saw this all the time on reddit. Some people seem to have the need to be involved in conversations but don’t have anything worthwhile, intelligent, or even just interesting or entertaining to say. They instead tend to pick an aspect of a comment, often take it out of context, then shit all over it but not in a way that’s constructive, helpful, or insightful whatsoever. They often don’t seem to really even have a point other than telling you you’re wrong. I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re seeing here.

              I suggest at most calling them out on their behavior but otherwise just not engaging. They’re basically trolls, even if they don’t realize it themselves, so it’s not worth the trouble and there’s no way to ‘win’.