This person, a liberal from Finland, self-identifies as a tankie because he wants to murder Russians. Words officially mean nothing. English class is canceled.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/24908172

  • ThatVeganYouHate [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    Look, I’m not an expert on Russia or Ukraine but I’m confused about the point that there is a genocide in Ukraine. Isn’t the part of Ukraine that is being destroyed in battle where all the ethnically Russians live? Who is being genocided? Russians?

    Do libs just think that every war includes a genocide to dilute the term so the Israeli’s have ammunition when people call them out on it?

    • Big [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      In the liberal ideology, words are all empty signifiers that can be fit into two categories. “Bad” and “good”.

      Genocide is, to them, not the state sanctioned ethnic cleansing of targeted groups, but just another word for “bad”.

      The foundation of the liberal world view is to morally absolve yourself from benefiting from capitalism by publically signalling your moral purity, and condemning others for their perceived lack of morality through the “good” and “bad” categories.

      That’s why debating people online is pointless. Libs already have most of their material needs covered in the current system and any criticism can only boil down to personal taste in manners and fidelity to the system.

      Sorry for rambling, I’m drunk

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      There isn’t any “genocide” in Ukraine. This is a lib tendency to call all wars and war crimes as “genocide”. There is no proven extermination of Ukrainians in Ukraine

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      I think it’s probably a combination of not being aware that there are ethnic russians in ukraine or that the donbass is predominantly russian, lib brainworms about putin secretly trying to take over all of ukraine and exterminate ukrainian culture, and the sad reality of what fighting “to the last ukrainian” means

      Do libs just think that every war includes a genocide to dilute the term so the Israeli’s have ammunition when people call them out on it?

      Yeah probably

    • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Libs have really stepped up their use of genocide to describe all conflicts after Israel began their genocide in earnest. Them watering the term down starting with the fake Holodomor stuff, and then the fake Xinjiang stuff, and this is a continuation and amplification of that. Ukraine’s national story it tells itself is that the Soviets and now Russia keeps doing a genocide against them (when in fact, all genocides against Ukraine [after the Mongols and Steppe Clans] have come from the West, not East, and Ukraine has been the far more genocidal entity since 1991).

      The libs know they can’t hide Israel’s disgusting actions, so they have coopted the public anti-genocide fervor in an attempt to redirect it towards state enemies instead of allies.

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      18 days ago

      I just want to mention that the same user in another comment says that Netanyahu “is functionally small potatoes by comparison to the alternatives”