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What's the most deranged political hot take you've ever seen? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like the kind that made you stop and think for a second about how stupid the person advocating it is. For me, it's the classic "The biggest mistake in recent history was the Allies not pushing into Russia after the fall of Berlin."

There's just a level of imperialist arrogance and blood thirst in there that makes my skin crawl. The worst thing in human history was that the US didn't immediately betray the Soviets and wipe them out until they were sure communism was done for.

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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off the top of my head, the craziest thing I ever heard was a liberal on Twitter saying the US should call Russia’s bluff on the nukes and join in militarily with Ukraine. They were saying it’s better to not have an Eastern Europe or possibly world if it means Putin and Xi will be controlling it. It got a lot of attention and not as much hate as it deserved (obv people were calling them idiots but far fewer than any sane person would hope for)

[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 14 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the classic "better nuclear aniahialation than cede power" take