• sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I was a bit too young to have much of an opinion or impact there. In any case very much unlike Ukraine, Serbia actually was genociding people. “Get genocided by your central state, get independence” is more than fair if you ask me.

    The Ukrainian state has been killing civilians indiscriminately in its two breakaway regions, they were just doing it for much longer than it took for any kind of intervention in Serbia.

    When the west starts to pretend to care about muslims, you know they’re full of shit about any purported genocides. They went from pretending to care about Kosovar Albanians to murdering millions of muslims over the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    So the Bundeswehr is a Nazi org because it’s using the iron cross as emblem?

    It’s pretty funny having iron crosses constantly showing up on all the UA vehicles- I think we all know what they’re going for, they just left off a few lines.

    So Russia suddenly isn’t European? That would come as news to Europe.

    Russia has not been a part of ‘the west’, certainly not as far as most of the EU is concerned unless you’re trying to be intentionally obtuse

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      Russia has not been a part of ‘the west’, certainly not as far as most of the EU is concerned unless you’re trying to be intentionally obtuse

      It has been a colonial empire for quite a while now. Or do you really think this didn’t happen with military force? That it’s just the natural extent of the Russian nation? Or that the Empire didn’t brutally exploit every new territory they conquered? “Colony” doesn’t mean “overseas”.

      It’s pretty funny having iron crosses constantly showing up on all the UA vehicles

      That’s the Cossack cross. The Cossacks got it from the Templars, same root as the Iron Cross.

      The Ukrainian state has been killing civilians indiscriminately in its two breakaway regions

      Отъебись ватник блядь.

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        Were the Russians also doing chattel slavery like the west was for literally hundreds of years? Like sure conditions for serfs weren’t great, but the transatlantic slave trade, the mass genocide of the americas, the subjugation of africa, india and china built the wealth of europe. You’re trying to act like these two things are the same and they’re not

        Отъебись ватник блядь.

        lmao countdown

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          Like sure conditions for serfs weren’t great,

          They were abhorrent. You’re really playing semantics here, conditions were essentially slave-like just as, say, Cuba under Batista.

          built the wealth of europe

          No. Water power did, Europe has an absurd number of suitable streams for grain mills which allowed the creation of extensive trade, merchant, and scholar classes – as they could be fed. Which led to technological superiority which led to the capacity to roll over other nations (and the presumption that it was the right thing to do). Without that pre-existing wealth all that colonising would not have been possible.

          Where’s the lie? You guys think that’s a good thing.

          You’re accusing me of condoning or advocating genocide?

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            No. Water power did, Europe has an absurd number of suitable streams for grain mills allowing less the creation of extensive trade, merchant, and scholar classes. Which led to technological superiority which led to the capacity to roll over other nations (and the presumption that it was the right thing to do). Without that pre-existing wealth all that colonising would not have been possible.

            It was definitely the slavery

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            You’re accusing me of condoning or advocating genocide?

            You already told me to fuck off for pointing out that parts of Ukraine have been getting shelled by its own government for over 8 years, considering that response, yes that was my conclusion.

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              You already told me to fuck off for pointing out that parts of Ukraine have been getting shelled by its own government for over 8 years,

              No. I told you to fuck off for this:

              The Ukrainian state has been killing civilians indiscriminately in its two breakaway regions

              Yes, Ukraine has been shelling Russian positions in those regions for quite a while now.

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                Donetsk city has been routinely getting hit for years, it’s why the SMO started

                and again here you are cheerleading for indiscriminately killing civilians

                Yes, Ukraine has been shelling Russian positions in those regions for quite a while now.

                hitler-detector

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                  it’s why the SMO started

                  A resounding no. The worst collateral damage happened under Poroshenko, one of the reasons why he lost against Zelenskyy.

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            They were abhorrent. You’re really playing semantics here, conditions were essentially slave-like just as, say, Cuba under Batista.

            Yes it was bad, still not as bad as chattel slavery, but pretty bad, that’s why it was completely deserved when they had a revolution. Not sure why you keep bringing up the colonization of siberia like it’s relevant to what’s going on now though. Comparing the amount of human life lost in that to the conquest of Americas though is just silly- there’s no comparison and the same American government is still around since then!

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              This isn’t a “did the UK or Russia kill more natives” kind of discussion. This is a “Russia is a colonial empire” kind of discussion.

              And yes of course fewer natives died in Siberia, it’s fucking cold there there were never many in the first place.

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                They have had several government changes since then. The US has the same constitution since it was doing its shit, the one with slavery in it. (they only do it to prisoners now though, don’t ask too many questions about why they have the highest prison population in the world)

                Calling them a ‘colonial empire’ especially from the seat of the worlds largest and most brutal historical colonial empires is laughable. (1/3 of Africa has had a monetary policy run out of Paris to this day, I wonder why they’re kicking them out)