• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If you think the only difference is vocabulary, you don’t understand how bad Russia is

    America ain’t great at the vets of times, right now it’s pretty terrible.

    But Russia is a whole nother level. It’s like saying an alligator biting your leg off is as bad as a mosquito bite because they’re both bites.

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      4 days ago

      „Well, akschually, Trump is still better then the other nazis”

      Do you even read what you write? Just because there have been worse Nazis dosent mean that the better ones arent Nazis.

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      What you are saying might have been true up to 2016.

      But now you are so wrong. And enough people see it that I don’t need to give examples.

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        Nope

        Still not as bad as Russia.

        If you think it is, again:

        you don’t understand how bad Russia is

        I mean. Even saying 2016 is the worst is showing you don’t really know the subject, you know cops bombed an entire Philly block before? You know the CIA sold crack?

        Like, trump fucking sucks but he’s doing less damage than past Republicans and neoliberals.

        Even shrinking the fed, there’s no chance he gets close to Clinton’s numbers.

        It’s good you’re upset, and you should be. It would just be better if you understood what you’re upset about. Getting rid of trump isn’t enough to fix shit, just make it less visible

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      If you think the only difference is vocabulary, you don’t understand how bad Russia is

      You’re absolutely right. Russia should be killing its people the civilized way: capitalism.

      Also, they lack the power to exercise global corruption and terror to the same extent as the USA, but that may be changing now that Donald has decided he’s content with the economy crumbling as long as he can have his personal ego fellated in the process.

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        Are you trying to say that r*ssia isn’t a capitalist country? Or that they didn’t have global corruption schemes that financed extremists all over the world? That they didn’t had they own little campaign of terror all over africa and middle east?

        They are more effective then US at these things, true.

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    I remember how hard “undercover cops == secret police” rocked my sensibilities about authoritarianism’s Western form.

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      The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.

      1984 - Appendix, George Orwell