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  • 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

    • 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:

    • 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

                • Kuori [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  :disgost: "of course i think it's good that the man who forced untold numbers of women and children into prostitution to survive is dead!"

    • 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).