• xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    See this is why I keep pushing you.

    Germany would never do what the ukranian state is doing, but they need every fighting man. Never mind the fact that ukranian doctrine has been combined arms warfare with relatively small numbers of soldiers so they’re not actually in a situation where numbers are a huge benefit.

    The naziism is a serious problem and it’s good that azov “denazified” but also they’re not popular and it’s no big deal.

    They can’t capitalize on having fought and aren’t gaining any standing, but azov was being lauded in the press as defenders of Mariupol.

    You’re just saying whatever let’s you keep defending the Nazis.

    Now it could be that you want to defend the ukranian state, but you don’t need to rush to its side every time. It can be making grave mistakes and doing the wrong thing by any measure and still be a state you support. Just don’t support the Nazis, that’s all I ask.

    Take a page from the communists and limit yourself to critical support.

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      Take a page from the communists and limit yourself to critical support.

      Take a page from Antifa and not call a huge organisation Nazi because there’s a couple of Nazis in there.

      My main issue, here, from the beginning, has been you trivialising the term. You still do it, without reflection, in an attempt to win an argument on the internet. As if it was some two-sided partisan US politics or such.

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        Take that same exact page and recognize that if there’s ten liberals at the table with a Nazi there’s eleven Nazis at the table.

        An organization that accepts Nazis is a Nazi organization.

        I’m not trivializing the fact that the ukranian state actively welcomes Nazis. I’m responding appropriately with revulsion and disdain.

        To the extent that there is any path to peace that leaves Donetsk and Luhansk in the control of the ukranian state, it does not hinge on accepting and welcoming Nazis.

        If the state is doing so, it’s not out of necessity, but alignment.

        There is no argument to be won here. Anyone reading this thread of comments will wonder why it’s so important that Nazis are accepted. I’m recommending you, as a person who ought to be familiar with the insidious nature of fascism, stop defending Nazis.

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          If the state is doing so, it’s not out of necessity, but alignment.

          So then you’re ready to call Russia a Nazi state over fielding a fuckton of fascist regiments? Have a look at Utkin’s tattoos. Everyone in Russia knew, noone higher up cared.

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            They’re both liberal fascist states. One was put in place by nato after they realized they couldn’t just carve it up, the other was put in place by nato to oppose the first when they denied it membership.

            Stop deflecting and trying to place me in support or opposition to the members of this absolutely avoidable conflict and most importantly: stop defending nazis.

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              One was put in place by nato after they realized they couldn’t just carve it up

              Oh my sides I dare you to say that in Russia. Bring a stopwatch so you can time how long it takes for you to arrive in a prison camp in Siberia. The FSB doesn’t suffer that kind of talk, “Russia is controlled by its enemies” (from their POV. In reality Russia has exactly one enemy: Itself).

              this absolutely avoidable

              Absolutely avoidable, true: Russia could stop being imperialist and, for a change, and harkening back to Lenin’s times, focus on developing itself. Like Ukraine did. Which is why the Siloviki in Russia can’t have that happen, it sets a bad precedent for a culturally related people to gets its shit in order, people actually getting what they want, being better off, all that kind of stuff.

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                Okay first things first, I never said Russia was controlled by its enemies, second:

                This isn’t about my views on geopolitics, it’s about ohs you need to stop defending Nazis. Do that and we can have a wide ranging conversation about any number of topics.

                But first, stop defending Nazis!

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                  Okay first things first, I never said Russia was controlled by its enemies,

                  Explain that to the FSB officer.

                  But first, stop defending Nazis!

                  I never defended Nazis, and you have yet to make an argument that doesn’t bog down to “I hate that /u/barsoap is right about symbols”. It’s you who’s trivialising the term.

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                    I’m not trivializing anything.

                    You are saying that azov battalion using the wolfsangel is not a nazi symbol.

                    It’s a defense of Nazis because you’re providing cover for the spread of their ideology. You need to stop defending Nazis.