• Destide
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    3226 days ago

    Wonder what the Americans who call everything communism feel about siding with communist dictatorships?

    • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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      3826 days ago

      That’s kind of a weird question. Russia isn’t communist and arguably never got further than state capitalism under the Soviet Union. Russia is certainly a dictatorship/oligarchy now, but so is the US (with extra steps that are currently being dismantled anyways).

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      26 days ago

      You seem to have been asleep for a couple of decades. Russia isn’t a communist dictatorship. It is a right wing fascist dictatorship.

      • MonsterMonster
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        26 days ago

        The point is that Americans are perceived as calling anything that they don’t understand or doesn’t conform as either Communist or Socialist even if they aren’t.

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          This is what I meant also I never mentioned Russia but let’s just go off on a tangent with insults anyway. China is a bedfellow in this

    • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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      1126 days ago

      Pretty fucking disgusted that we’ve decided to embrace the horrendous fucking garbage lunatic in office and really fucking disgusted he’s on putlers balls. I’m sorry Europe were a disgrace

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    1225 days ago

    “First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity - voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.”

    “UNGA members backed the European resolution by 93 votes but, extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states, with 65 abstentions.”

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      2125 days ago

      extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states,

      Wow, really a who’s who of shitheels.

    • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      225 days ago

      That’s breathtakingly shitty of my country to do, but the security council stuff is just as bad and maybe more important since (if my memory serves) the security council has a lot more actual power to do things that the general assembly does

      Then [the US and Russia] backed a US-drafted resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an end to the conflict but containing no criticism of Russia.

      The Security Council resolution was passed but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained in the vote after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.