Because it is established fact, as even Western mainstream media has reported.

Because liberals repeated and repeat the talking points of Ukrainian Nazis.

You seem to be under the midapprheen that they either didn’t exist or went away. That would be incorrect.

When he says “Liberals love collective punishment…” he is not saying left wing, he is saying loudly right wing.

I’m well aware that liberalism is an international term.

Yet you assumed I made a US-specific reference when I did in no way do so.

However, it is used very differently in the US to everywhere else. In the US, liberal is used to pretty much mean “left wing” or “relating to the Democrat party”.

Yes I know. I was not using it in that sense.

And I said fuck off with your Ukraine Nazi bullshit. Stop parroting Russian propaganda, gimboid.

It is not bullshit. There are and have been Ukrainian Mazis and liberals falling over themselves to repeat their racist and chauvinist talking points.

I think Palestinians have a right to be angry at Israelis, even to the point of potential violence.

And yet, by and large, Palestinians, facing genocide, focus their fights on soldiers and military equipment while showing empathy towards those Israelis who aren’t actively expressing racism towards them.

But yes Palestinians do have every right to resist occupation and genocide through violence.

But this was not my question. It is whether you consiste tky believe in and apply the rhetoric you are using or whether you are, note likely, swept up in the current hate-on towards all Russians.

Much in the same way I think Russians have long passed a historical threshold for which we should consider whether they are compatible with civilized society.

This reads as very racist and draws on orientalist tropes. I assume you picked them up from the upsurge in fascistic rhetoric, including from Ukrainian Nazis whose rhetoric has been amplified and anonymized/filtered through mainstream repetitiom, and have not discovered this talking point de novo.

We gave them a shot after the USSR fell, they didn’t take the opportunity to clean up their act.

tf are you talking about. The fall of the USSR came with a mass expropriation if wealth and industry and social programs at the expense of tens of millions of lives. Attempts to join the imperial core were rebuffed, it was placed in permanent shock therapy territory and systematically excluded. They did exactly what Western interests wanted them to do. This is the Russia your ideology created.

So now we’re going back to it, confrontation.

There was never a pause in imperialist escalation.

Only this time we’re not 2-3x stronger than them, we’re 10-20x. I like those odds.

I see that rather than ask yourself whether you consistently apply your logic, you are here just revealing that you are a nationalist that truly does not care and is now excited for a world war.

Of course there was and it is why their comment was removed.

It seems pretty clear that the negative implication is putin’s regime abusing his authority for sexual favors (especially given all the mass rapes by russian forces in ukraine…) and not that said favors are bad because theyre gay. It’s telling that they assumed it was based in homophobia, though.