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Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall. This isn’t even trying. I’m just blown away by the gullible fools who see this dy
by api 3y ago
Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall. This isn’t even trying.
I’m just blown away by the gullible fools who see this dying totalitarian dystopia with statistics around birth and family life that are way worse than anything in the West as a beacon of resistance to decadence or something.
Of course I guess this isn’t new with Russia. Back in the Cold War it was naive elements of the left and now it’s naive elements of the right. They seem to excel at marketing themselves to the deeply disaffected. But there’s nothing there but a Potemkin village.
The Gulag Archipelago should be required reading.
- pavlov 3y agoOr if it’s not Russia proper, then the object of right-wing idolatry is Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” in Hungary which is essentially Diet Putin.
- mindslight 3y agoThe ironic thing is that even a broken clock is right twice a day. This is like scoring less than 25% on a multiple choice test.
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoThere are left apologists for Russia too. Jeffrey Sachs, Chomsky (he is doing it again, defending tyrants).
- javajosh 3y agoChomsky a Russian apologist? Citation needed.
- tscherno 3y agohttps://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chom...
- riku_iki 3y agoI don't think he is apologist in sense that he is justifying Russia's actions, but his point is that Russia is too large force for Ukraine to fight without receiving devastating damage, and in his view Ukraine should've considered negotiating peace deal and give up some territories.
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoNo his point, that Russian fears of NATO is legitimate, is bollocks. He seems to see everywhere American Imperialism, and think in this frame. Russian government did not give a damn about NATO expansion, it is a mafia with no ideology. They would have invaded anyway, under some other false pretense. Keep in mind that Chomsky denied genocide made Khmer Rouge in 1970 and genocide in Srebrenica, _just_ _because_ _perpetrators_ _seemed _to_be_ against US imperialism.
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- ManuelKiessling 3y ago> Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall. I’ve heard his plane fell from a window.