• nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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    1 month ago

    @Midnight If Russia were the only one involved, and if weren’t provoked by outside powers like say, oh, the United States, yea I could agree with you but my knowledge of history precludes my accepting that explanation.

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      1 month ago

      Reporter: [REDACTED]
      Reason: blatant russian nazi acct

      You see the Russians are the real Nazis, not the Banderites who attacked Eastern Ukrainians for the decade before this war started.

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        1 month ago

        @davel If the world were so simple then those with single digit IQ’s and no real knowledge of historical fact would be able to understand it, unfortunately it is not.

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          They’re not dumb; usually it’s that they live in the bubble of Western propaganda, while simultaneously believing that they haven’t been propagandized their whole lives.

          People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know. — Noam Chomsky

          And really, who even has the time and energy to know? It’s actually a lot of work, and we live under neoliberalism, where most of us are just trying to keep our heads above water. Plus, there’s no social or financial upside to bucking the hegemonic viewpoint.

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            @davel Everyone has their own perspective but I think most people here are trying to greatly over simply a complex situation with and Noam Chomsky offers only yet another perspective and I disagree with him on the issue of world government or extinction. I don’t think world government on a large scale, particularly the way it is now with no real citizenship representation, is particularly desirable.

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              We’re going a bit off in the weeds here 😂 but yes, Chomsky is what we Marxists call a “radical recuperator,” or a member of the “compatible left.” He’s done useful work, but ultimately he steers people back to the status quo.

              Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left: I, II, III, IV

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      Putin is a despot trying to make his mark on history. No amount of appeasement from the global West would have stopped him from ordering the invasion.

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        1 month ago

        @YaBoyMax Sorry I’ve watched enough of his speeches that I can’t come away with the same. I know there are a lot of deep state types trying to paint him as such so that we can get on with their ww III depopulation agenda.