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    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      can't have a redemption arc without some past sins

      though at this point it seems you just can't have a redemption arc, period

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Not sure how anyone expected Westerners, even left-leaning ones to not just go Putin and Russia Bad about the Ukraine situation

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          it's obviously possible because most users of this website are westerners, myself included

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              tell me about it; every day i spend here renders me less and less tolerant of the horseshit opinions i encounter everywhere else

                • Kuori [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  you're absolutely not alone, comrade. even when i meet people i genuinely like and whose politics are mostly agreeable it's inevitable that they'll eventually say some insane shit like "the evil ccp, which i hate..." and it's like

                  how do i talk to normal people anymore???

                  • KimJongFun [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    My friend told me about Gorbachev's death and it was jarring to realize he didn't expect me to be happy about it

        • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I totally expected a lot of my friends to be more skeptical than they turned out to be. Oh well

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Same with the Uyghur thing, honestly. You just have to accept that you're going to sound like a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet if you start talking about it to an average person

            • BigFuckingTurd [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You just have to accept that you’re going to sound like a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet if you start talking about it to an average person

              :side-eye-1::side-eye-2:

              • panopticon [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet

                :I-was-saying:

        • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Putin is definitely bad, but the West is at least equally bad (or even more, given that Putin is literally a result of 90s western fuckery).

    • RION [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      True. Ever since his veer leftward post 2016 he'd been alright, from what I've seen