• @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.”

      Considering the sort of country Russia is, them calling you a friend is much more damning than then calling you an enemy

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          I don’t recall saying anything about all Russians supporting Putin.

          In any case, Putin is more of a symptom than the cause of Russia’s problems. They seem to be completely unable to produce systems of government that aren’t psychopathic and incredibly brutal; this has been going on for centuries now, Putin is not some sort of one-off anomaly.

          Whether the majority of the populace has been brainwashed or not is in some ways irrelevant. It’s the same as with “western” conservatives: many of them have been brainwashed, but when they literally want to murder me for who I am it’s inconsequential to me how they arrived at their ideology. Compare them to eg. the Nazis; many were brainwashed but feeling empathy towards your concentration camp guards wasn’t going to get you out of the camp

  • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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    357 months ago

    The Kremlin has been fucking with the US’ elections for a decade. Pretty sure they already considered them an enemy.

  • @splonglo@lemmy.world
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    107 months ago

    seems they’re a little upsetti spaghetti about US letting Ukraine launch attacks across the border with their weapons.

  • @root_beer@midwest.social
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    97 months ago

    So does this mean we can charge people who collaborate with Putin with treason, or does it require us to be at war with the Russian Federation?

  • @sartalon@lemmy.world
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    97 months ago

    I feel like the South Park song, “Kyle’s Mom is a Bitch” should be remade into “Putin is a Bitch”.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    37 months ago

    Bad Dmitry! No lifted sanctions for you! Now you just go to your dark house and think about what you’ve done.