• ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Maybe. I’ve just seen, for over a year now, people use the allegation that wagner were nazis to “bothsides” the issue of ukraine being full of nazi military units; but with no proof, it’s always just asserted to be true. It’s very annoying. Especially given the recent even greater uptick in libs embracing nazism.

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      My take mostly has to do with me assuming most people (of any nationality) who volunteer for military service (for any nation) are inherently fascistic.

      I feel like I just got beat up in a back alley because I got the password wrong.

      • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        I’m sorry that you feel that way, that isn’t my intention here. I don’t think people of any nationality are inherently fascistic. I do think that the Ukrainian state is currently, in fact, a Nazi state, that it has openly Nazi military units, etc. Liberals who support Ukraine like to excuse this fact by alleging that Wagner are also Nazis, so there are Nazis on bothsides (except Russia is actually worse, and so on and so on). The person I was responding to deployed this standard lib bullshit. So I asked for proof that there were Nazis on the Russian side. That wasn’t bait. I literally want people to either provide that proof, or to shut the fuck up about their being “Nazis on both sides.” I think anybody talking about “Nazis on both sides” should be banned for being a Nazi apologist (which is what they are doing), unless they provide some proof that that’s actually true.