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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

PROTIP: to any denialists for the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians, you can fuck right off, this comm isn't for your kind

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

PROTIP: to any denialists for the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians, you can fuck right off, this app isn't for your kind

ftfy

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tankies love talking about how America exterminated native populations

Russia or China would never do such a thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Siberia

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia is the only colonial power that never even formally gave independence to its colonies. They are still officially part of Russia and have always been exploited even tho in different ways under the tsar, the bolsheviks and now in post bolshevik times.

Never forget that Russia ends at the Ural, everything east of it are land colonies. Oppressed too much to fight for independence.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never forget that Russia ends at the Ural,

South "russia" was also colonized after native populations were exterminated. But that's just me being pedantic, don't need to over load the audience

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

I think all nation states have stories like this to a degree which doesn't make it ok obviously. Some argue that nation states are internalized colonialism. But the real reason I stick to my version is that it's more catchy. We need narratives to boil things down for the beginning and later we can say "actually it's even worse"

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we genocide all Nazis globally? As a treat?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Just this one time.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You can add the Russian Federation flag on the bottom too

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 week ago

The cope is that a free Palestine would be a Marxist-Leninist People’s Republic, or at least a honorary one like Iran or Afghanistan.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Hey that's not fair to the Only Democracy in the Middle East™! They sometimes also have liberal governments oppressing Muslims!