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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There's a ton of Russian propaganda on Lemmy today.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This post is a basic history lesson, but if you want, we can get into the history of US support for fascism in Ukraine and how that connects with its role in WWII 😊

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Listen, I wouldnt jerk myself to ANY authoritarian government pieces of shit like you're doing here, which has yes included Russia and their oligarchs. I read Navalny's last book, did you?* How about that for a fucking history lesson. Do you know what the Holodomor was? Do you know why we have so much Russia diaspora? Do you know what Russian women say about wars in Russia? The wealthy of Russia have done FUCK ALL to protect anyone, LEAST OF ALL THEIR AVERAGE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DEFENDED US IN WW2, except put their citizens into a fucking meat grinder in wars, put them into prisons to torture and rape them and kill them to sell as videos online so they can blackmail the people who buy them, and literally stolen their money.

The Russian people are not their government. The Israeli peolle are not their government. The Chinese people are not their government. You misattribute to authoritarians characteristics of the average citizen - you're stealing their accomplishments for the wealthy. Stick your history lesson up your ass

-*Note how I never said Navalny was a good person in every position - but he is a great example of Russia's authoritarian government seizing Putin's political rival and torturing him for over a year. His last book is wild to read because it is from his PoV while he is in prison being tortured. I respect his capacity to spite fascist governments in control of his country (it's notable that he wasn't in control).

Meanwhile, Putin has directly funded Nazis and Nazi propaganda worldwide so he can start wars in those countries to "stop the Nazis" to put his men in another meat grinder

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Hahahahahaha Navalny's book you love Hitlerslop https://archive.org/details/VideoAlexeiNavalnyComparesMuslimsToCockroaches

Google holodomor huh? Lmao. Homework for you. https://annas-archive.se/md5/9f9f3ebb076a7ed2d91f51d0e5440f20 https://annas-archive.se/md5/dbf40cb981d075d2ecfd00af5dad05d4 If you flat out refuse to engage criticisms of the historical works you were presented with then don't pretend to understand the subject enough to be analytical.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You have to engage with my actual points first, so far you haven't done so. Providing material isn't an argument or refutation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh you're playing interrogator are you? Did you even bother to click on the video of Navalny talking about massacring immigrants?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, it's still your turn to fully address my points. I'll respond when you give me a good faith argument that addresses my points, as I did for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You've appointed yourself the Wikipedia interrogator of the network have you? It's identical to interacting with a Zionist. There are no "turns" here, you aren't playing a game, you're clinging to lies and plugging your ears because you're a fool.

Thank you for doubling down on ignoring Navalny's fascism. Makes the message perfectly clear

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lots of projection and bad faith arguments there from someone who can’t form a valid rebuttal lol. What a tantrum. Good faith arguments, fallacies, and logic are what we build legal systems and reasoning on, because it is what is sensical and provable and arguable. I can’t argue something nonsensical and nonarguable by definition (which is why people arguing in bad faith use them - to be manipulative). Thus, you lose because you aren’t arguing, you’re just spewing ego everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://archive.org/details/VideoAlexeiNavalnyComparesMuslimsToCockroaches

The last book you read was by a guy who wants to gun immigrants down, your comments on this? Is this the kind of thinking you admire?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gee, more fallacies and strawmen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You immediately forfeit any human rights debate by openly claiming this man lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you can dramatically yawn but the fact is you'd be writing pages of smug liberal bullshit instead of smugly pulling faces, silently defending Hitlerian Eastern European politicians if you could. It's easy enough to see how you use this app. You've got nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fresh out of page-long diatribes sourcing the Kyiv Independent and NPR.org I see. What a pity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://archive.org/details/VideoAlexeiNavalnyComparesMuslimsToCockroaches

The last book you read was by a guy who wants to gun immigrants down, your comments on this? Is this the kind of thinking you admire?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Coming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Can you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That's why we don't need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are! - Bee-men. - Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive City graduating class of... ...9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick our job today? I heard it's just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as... Honey! - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin! - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins. - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes? - Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. - What does that do? - Catches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Can anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. What's the difference? You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years. So you'll just work us to death? We'll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! "What's the difference?" How can you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Check it out. - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow. I've never seen them this close. They know what it's like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don't come back. - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! - I wonder where they were. - I don't know. Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can't just decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Spoken like a true pedophile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And? Everyone in russian politics is an evil piece of shit and has been for a century now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Evidence? "Cia told me to believe this" is not evidence btw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How does that play into russia being neo nazi conservatory and where neo nazis are state sponsored and protected?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How does that play into what your mother and I did last night for only $20?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay youre just yet another holocaust denier nazi.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Which country lost the most citizens to the Holocaust?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Mostly from tankies on .ml (used to be hexbear too until they were defederated). Any self-respecting instance needs to defederate from this trash uninformed low effort propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Imagine being so bad at arguing with people that you start commenting 500 times a month complaining about a website instead of backing up your own claims. 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well, NPR's Planet Money did an episode on this, the link: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043749/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-tether

But basically, they are likely slaves and not even spies (spies are too expensive for this grunt work). There are huge slave networks, especially in BRICS countries including Russia, where they just run political scams, crypto scams, whatever. The NPR story focused on a romance crypto scam and he said he went through several people pretending to be the same woman, and some would admit to being slaves. In my experience talking with obvious bots is that if you ask them:

"Are you a slave? NPR says bots like you are slaves. Are you a slave? Do you need help?" I will get no response, or blocked and THEIR comments deleted so no one can see what I wrote. Normally if you ask them if they are a bot, not a slave, they will keep engaging for the content etc. It's genuinely shocking how many u-turn and disengage when you ask them that. Ofc I always ask publicly to let others know, so they are not able to confess safely if they are a slave (they can DM ofc).

Notably, Elon himself funded a scam pretending to be Democrats to funnel people to a MAGA website

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/10/pro-trump-dark-money-network-tied-to-elon-musk-behind-fake-pro-harris-campaign-scheme/

Building America’s Future, the dark money group at the helm of the network, has steered money to a constellation of groups and initiatives boosting Trump’s agenda and spreading messaging aimed at chipping away voters from Harris. The dark money group reportedly received over $100 million in funding from billionaire Elon Musk, along with other donors, the New York Times recently reported.

The newest effort to benefit from their largesse is Progress 2028. Building America’s Future registered to use Progress 2028 as a fictitious name on Sept. 23

Some individuals have received text messages directing them to the Progress 2028 page.

Progress 2028 has also started pouring money into digital advertising. Since Oct. 11, several digital ads on Facebook and Instagram have included the disclaimer β€œpaid for by Progress 2028” β€” totaling over $36,000 in ad buys over just five days.

While the ads appear to include pro-Harris messaging, they lean into contentious issues listed on the Progress 2028 site that have created friction among different divisions of the party.