• Bloops@lemmygrad.ml
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    Last month there was a Russian woman asking for donations on Twitter so she could move. Apparently she fled Russia cause she got in some legal trouble for protesting against the war. Anyway, a bunch of the comments were pro-Ukraine liberals berating her for being Russian, saying stuff like “oh what about the poor Ukrainians who have to move, huh??”. Being an anti-Russian Russian is… a thankless job to say the least. 🤨

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      When the whole thing just started, I saw a fellow I knew from school posting photos to vkontakte. It was him at some anti-war protest with a “I am ashamed to be Russian” banner. The kicker? He lives in Canada, and has lived there for a decade, if not more.

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      I remember that post, it was an artist I think, and the qrts were disgusting. Trying to be “one of the good ones” seems to always be a bad idea.

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      Russian army evacuated civilians, including children, into Russian territory. Ukrainian government claimed it as kidnapping children, because orks should’ve given them to Ukraine.

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      I believe the grayzone did an article debunking that claim, where they actually interviewed the guy who was tasked with coming up with the war crime charge in the first place.

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    Self hating Russians are pretty cringe. Now excuse me while I, a burger, go on about how burgerland is the great satan and empire of lies.

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    Good question. I’ve not met many (if any at all) self hating Jews or self hating Chinese, for example. I’d imagine those are also quite cringe. Self hating Russians though, I know plenty personally. They do tend to have one thing in common - liberal ideology. Doesn’t matter the age. Young people who have never seen USSR and grew up on a steady diet of western media and propaganda (with a smattering of modern Russian media, which is also subpar). Middle aged people, who grew up in the closing years of the Union and witnessed the trauma of the collapse. Even one whose teenage years begun while Stalin was alive!

    And those that don’t go down the self hating route, often veer towards coping nationalism. It’s honestly painful, seeing just how much our people have been broken.

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      Self-hating Chinese exist in droves in HK. It’s like they see Schenzen across the bridge, a T1 city, and then they see London or NYC on Google, two dilapitated, dying cities, and they think “hm yes I will pick the countries in decay instead of literally crossing a bridge”

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      Them being liberals seems to be a very common theme, self-hating Chinese are almost identical to this. They’ll act as if they’re higher grade humans when around fellow diaspora but become obedient punching bags for westerners. The one thing they hate the most is the fact they can’t change their DNA composition to more closely match those that they idolise in the west so much.

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        It’s beyond disgusting. Zionist pigs will say the most vile shit and still be tolerated in polite society. Imagine calling a person of any other race a race traitor. Shits fucked up, yet Israel and their facist goose stompers do it regularly with no consequence.

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      self hating Jews

      Im sure zionists would say that anti-Zionist Jews (based) are such, but self-hating would more accurately mean self anti-semites, which don’t really exist.

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        Yes, I remember seeing a video of that one conservative Jewish group – can’t remember their name right now – that regularly marches with pro-Palestine demonstrators. The Zionists were out in force, heckling them and calling them “traitors” and “self-hating Jews,” which seemed to me very ironic. Like, you do realize these people are hyper-religious, dress in traditional costume, and put their particular interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures above even having a homeland for themselves? – while you Zionists are for the most most part basically indistinguishable from any other pasty-white New Yorker.

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    There’s some quote - I can’t remember how it goes, something along the lines of “the job of an anti-imperialist is to protest their own empire, as everyone agrees that the other empire is bad.”

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      The kidnaps children thing is bullshit, a liberal lie. Russia evacuated civilians who wanted to be evaced including children because the Ukrainian Nazi state persecutes them for their Russian speech, culture, etc.

      So they’re liberals and we should not encourage liberal lies and “critiques”. Now if their signs were Marxist I’d feel better. But fuck liberals repeating atrocity propaganda.

      Further Russia is not imperialist as they don’t meet Lenin’s criteria. The Ukrainian war is not an imperialist war but a defensive one which Russia fought for years to avoid engaging in and tried desperately, sincerely with a duplicitous, dishonest west who was only interested in buying time to arm and train the Ukrainians to arrive at a peaceful solution. It was engineered by the west. Continued instead of ending in a peace treaty with the first couple months when Russia was near Kiev because Boris Johnson with the full backing of the US went there and threatened them not to back down.

      Contrast with any imperialist war by the US in the past century and it’s night and day.

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    I’m not for the war, to be honest, I believe everything can be resolved in a civil manner, but… let’s be honest, if you poke a bear for too long, you shouldn’t be surprised if it bites back 🤷.

    I’m kinda like that. Leave me be and I’ll leave you be. Mess with me… I can take a lot of abuse, but when I blow, you better be miles away from the line of fire.

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    Those that would call them “self-hating” are undoubtedly more cringe.

    These women have enough self respect to be ashamed of the genocide being committed by the current government of their homeland, and to actively protest it.