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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah considering that's what they were doing in Donbass

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Even Prigozhin said that the supposed genocide in Donbas is 100% a Russian propaganda fabrication. Stop parroting that bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you agree with fascist mercenaries? Cool to know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also think cake tastes good which aligns me straight with Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay but people shouldn't take you seriously on cake if your argument is "Hitler agrees with my take on cake"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about me agreeing with Hitler on "Poland didn't attack Germany"?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. You're getting close.

Now if Hitler, or one of his generals, said that the Poles didn't attack after all, what would you think of that? Might you take it as an admission that the Nazis had lied?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I concede that, if we live in your counterfactual reality where Hitler did the exact opposite of what he actually did, you'd have a point.

I know what you're trying to say but i think you're trying to stretch reality to fit your comparison instead of trying to make an accurate comparison around reality.

Maybe you should look for other real world examples that would fit your comparison better. I bet there are plenty of examples of nazis in nations fighting the nazis doing genocide denial during ww2 that you could find.

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

I mean I kinda thought of Hitler and him being a cake-eating vegetarian and then had to improvise afterwards. I did try to pedal back a bit and say "or one of his generals".

Oh and it wasn't just Nazis who denied the holocaust back then. There was an IIRC French historian I can't recall the name who went in there not believing such a thing possible, then saw concentration camps with his own eyes, and went on to compile a minimum number, with the intent that if you say a lower one, you're definitely denying because the number is unassailable, as a minimum (but probably higher. Most definitely probably higher, in fact). Threw out e.g. SS reports because they could be claimed to be fabricated to get a promotion and shit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's fucked up.

Also, thanks for engaging in good faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well in this case it's more like even Hitler said "the jews weren't so bad at all"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wouldn't it more be equivalent to Henry Ford or Hearst press during ww2 claiming that the nazis weren't brutalizing black and Jewish soldiers?

Nazi public figure claims nazis in enemy country aren't doing bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You didn’t need to cite hitler as the cake lover, could have picked anyone else

You didn’t have to pick the fascist mercenary army leader to agree with you on the other one, either. Yet you did for some reason

Is this supposed to prove anything but you have no scruples?

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

I mean hexbears are otherwise so willing to take Russian sources at face value, e.g. when it comes to claims about Russian speakers getting supposedly oppressed and genocided by the Ukrainian state... then why not trust Pregozhin? What makes him less trustworthy than Solovyov?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

I can’t speak for everyone, but I definitely don’t find Russian media particularly trustworthy, we like to do a little thing called critical thinking instead of just blindly accepting things

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russian media is untrustworthy and I've yet to meet a hexbear user that says otherwise. We just also recognize American media to be untruswot. Good thing we're able to critique our sources and think critically

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't trust Russia, but Pringles was not exactly an uninpeachable source of truth himself

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's 100% fabrication then Trump shouldn't have been impeached

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

Oh there's plenty of other reasons to impeach Trump. Why would he even be impeached over that, though. I don't really follow US news, it's silly over there.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

His first impeachment was over him extracting personal political benefit from sending weapons to Ukraine that they were using to carry out their ethnic cleansing

If the ethnic cleansing were 100% fabricated by Russian propaganda then the Hillary Cliintons of the USA are Putin bots.

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

You are aware that Russia already invaded in 2014? That this war has been going on for a while? Why wouldn't the US send Ukraine aid to defend itself?

Regarding the US reaction back then in general, though: Why didn't the US enforce the Budapest memorandum?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are aware that Russia already invaded in 2014?

No they didn't. They were already there. The biggest feature of Crimea is the naval base that Russia had been leasing since Ukraine had a legitimately elected government. When the US supported Nazi led coup regime took power they tried to cancel the lease. The Russians simply stayed put. They didn't invade. They were already there.

Are there any more fundamental understandings of recent history you would like me to catch you up on?

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

You realise that Crimea is larger than Sevastopol and Donetsk and Luhansk are not on Crimea?

Also, that "US supported Nazi coup" is 100% Russian propaganda not backed by anything but fantasy?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuland/pyatt call at minimum shows that they took advantage of already existing protests to do a soft coup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah it shows that the US had opinions on Ukraine. US emissaries also tried to convince protestors to enter negotiations and compromise with Yanukovich and they were having none of that.

US emissaries and the Rada coming to the same conclusion when it comes to who is a good interim whatever isn't terribly surprising, you always pick prominent, well-respected, honourable, non-partisan middle of the road people for that kind of thing. People who can be trusted to organise proper elections and not fuck shit up in the meantime.

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

you always pick prominent, well-respected, honourable, non-partisan middle of the road people for that kind of thing. People who can be trusted to organise proper elections and not fuck shit up in the meantime.

Is this a joke? The US sidelined the main opposition forces who wanted to stay on good terms with both Russia and the US in favor of literal nazis. The new president was the leader of the "fatherland party" until he splintered it off into an even more conservative group which had a military council of nazi paramilitary leaders and was basically generically called "national socialist party"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever wonder why they impeached him over some bullshit most people didn't give a fuck about in a country most people didn't know existed at the time instead of the mountains of evidence of his predatory behavior?

didnt-kill-himself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No. Yanks impeached a President over a blowjob, that is, any- and everything.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody said there was a genocide as far as I know, but there were many ethnic cleansing attempts.

On the contrary calling Russia activities "genocide" was very common. Programmed morons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"You and I know what is happening in Donbass," referring to the conflict zone in the east of the country, adding that: "It certainly looks like genocide."

Putin has previously made similar comparisons about the war in eastern Ukraine including in 2015 and 2019.

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

Ethnic cleansing of Russian speakers by what, a Russian-speaking army?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

By a government that passed laws against using their language and that detonated bombs on them

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By a Ukrainian Nazi army. Are you not aware of this? This is basic stuff you need to know before commenting.

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

Where do they get their tattoo inspirations from, Utkin?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What, the guy that Putin just killed? sounds like he has a better track record of killing Nazis than you give him credit for

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

the supposed genocide in Donbas is 100% a Russian propaganda fabrication

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Libs:"Tankies think everything is CIA propaganda"

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