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Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality (apnews.com)

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago

lol the tankies downvoted you

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 45 points 6 months ago

Lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear in shambles.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Oh hexbear too? I have noticed a lot of questionable posts coming from there

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 23 points 6 months ago

Yep. Just red through some of the comments on lemmy.ml for this news and compare it to the instance of the accounts. https://fedia.io/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/597721/Sweden-officially-joins-NATO#comments

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

lol reminds me of when it was explained to me that Russia is an Asian country and if I supported Ukraine it meant I was racist against Asians

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 16 points 6 months ago

That doesn't make any sense on absolutely every level. lol

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They will then post an article talking about Russia “reclaiming” its Asian-ness and another that says that it was Asian all along. Then they will downvote you into negative double digits while explaining how horrible a person you are

PS I actually moved here after many months of it. Had no idea what “ml” meant. I joined there because it was the dev instance.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 18 points 6 months ago

The devs being tankies was one of the reasons why I went with kbin / mbin over Lemmy. It just didn't sit right with me. But I also couldn't stand the layout / design.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I wish I had known! I really do. But I’m here now and it’s ok. This instance is full of nice people for the most part, it’s like 2005-era social media again.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's some fun logic. A equals B, and B equals C, so A equals C. But this isn't math and subsets aren't totality. So hating Russia for warmongering isn't hating Asians for being Asian.

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Yiikes the comments there are so toxic its crazy. Glad I've got those instances blocked.

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear

A trifecta of varying qualities of propaganda. An axis of artifice.

[-] harderian729@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

There are good people in Russia.

[-] auzas_1337@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are good people everywhere.

Doesn’t really change the fact that Russia, more or less in its current form, has been bullying its neighbours for half a millenia. Longer, if you count the Grand Duchy of Moscow as Russia.

[-] bumphot@lemy.lol -4 points 6 months ago

Could be said the same for most Europen countries to be honest.

[-] auzas_1337@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Start naming 😄 I wouldn’t say most. Britain, France, Prussia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, France and Russia had their little swingers club changing partners every few years or so, but there are more countries in Europe.

I’m from Latvia. Russian chauvinism is something I know of first hand. Most other European countries that I have been to have a different, more accepting vibe than the parts that are Russian influenced and manipulated.

So it really can’t be said about most European countries. Maybe historically, but definitely not currently.

I’d like to reitarate that there are good people everywhere. Part of my family is Russian and I like them. I have Russian friends. But it can’t be denied that as a state it’s goddamn awful and should disintegrate asap.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I don't consider them to be Russian trash. Only Putin and his sympathizers.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

It's such a bizarre thing... Communism fell in Russia probably before many of these people were born. But the support the successor state to the Soviet Union, which is an authoritarian kleptocracy, because why? Nostalgia? Ignorance?

Tankies be weird.

[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

russia was never communist.

[-] uis@lemm.ee -3 points 6 months ago

I guess you would call Navalny tankie too

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