• Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      The global RW fascist insurgency are tied at the hip with moscovia

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        Have they actually got something in the pipeline.

        Tough fucking luck. If healthcare is private in the US, it’s none of their business, the state doesn’t get a say.

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    I legitimately can’t imagine how awful it must be to be trans in Russia. Well, pretty much anywhere really, now that I think of it. Trans people just can’t catch a break. I feel so bad for them.

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      You and me both, fam. I can’t even imagine how it must be for a trans person to live in the US south - it is just mind-baffling to think of what it must be in other countries that barely even recognize any of those rights or are even outright hostile to the identity.

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        I can’t speak for every trans person in the South, but for me, it’s pretty fucking awful.

        Part of it is my area(lot of old white conservatives). They really don’t give a fuck. I have had to listen to 10 minute rants about gender politics because they want a pink gender reveal cake.

        We did multiple cake variations for Valentine’s. All stick figures. We “dared” to put rainbows on a couple of them. We had to get rid of them because people complained about STICK FIGURES under rainbows.

        I have to make sure I’m in a safe place to even begin feeling like myself.

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      I imagine this is why many people that might consider it just dont. It’s easier sometimes to just do the expected things at the expense of one’s self.

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      Like you said, I think it’s pretty awful in the majority of countries with few exceptions

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    3 years ago

    “Hi! I’m the news! Today, the Russian government did a bad thing!”

    —Every day, it seems

    This comment isn’t meant to trivialize the action, it’s just becoming almost comical how much the Kremlin is taking a dump on human rights.

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      The funny thing is, it’s the BBC reporting. That institution beholden to a party that is committed to making the issue a volatile political football.

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    Sad that so many people live under such an oppressive government. Some people have started hating Russians but I feel bad for most of them.

    They’re a huge country with all kinds of resources. If the government supported the people instead of keeping them under their heel, Russia could be an advanced, wealthy country with a rich culture. Instead we got Mafia in the Kremlin.

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      don’t make the mistake to think this is a government only problem. Sure not all Russians are pro-war or pro-putin but a majority of them supports their leader, his efforts and this mindset, they are basically fine with all that crap.

      So again to blame all russians is wrong but this is also not only putins fault, a lot of russian people are also heavy involved in this kind of lifestyle.

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    This reminds me how during the later stages of WW2, while the Nazis were losing the war, they kept spending resources on the Holocaust.

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        It’s not a godwin if they are literally nazis performing a literal genocide whilst literally losing a war of agression in Europe.

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          Yeah I think we’re gonna have to pause the godwin thing for a while. Too many people in power running plays right out of the Nazi playbook nowadays. A stigma against comparisons to Nazis isn’t preventing discussions from degenerating to name calling (the original intent of the rule) it’s just preventing conversation from happening.

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      Why are the so many people on this site white washing Nazis? It seems so concetrated here.

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        I’m very curious about what it is that you think the word “whitewash” means.

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          Making something seem not-as-bad. Nazis literally genocided 11 million people. Russia is being awful about medical care. Theres an ocean of difference.

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        Sorry, what? Are you saying that this comment about the holocaust makes the Nazis look… better?

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          More like equating the holocaust to bad medical care is trying to make the holocaust look better. Im exergeratting of course, but im hate when people call everything nazi.

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            I didn’t “equate” anything. I said that one thing reminds me of another.

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        You’re whitewashing Putin’s regime right now.