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It almost feels like posting yogthos is cheating

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 27 points 11 hours ago

Yogthos is always here to provide the shittiest of takes and the most phallical of fallacies.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I honestly can't tell if these .ml guys in these discussions are trolling or just spouting retarded nonsense and calling everyone a Nazi for the sake of it

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, no judgement, but we're trying to cut down use of the r-term around here, as a courtesy to those who it's been used to unfairly hurt. Just for future reference.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Lol, overthrows the government to be run by the exact same government.

The mental gymnastics are ridiculous.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 38 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yogthos drank the vatnik koolaid.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 13 points 15 hours ago

When in ml, do as the red fascists do.

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 29 points 15 hours ago

Yogthos is a clown

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 69 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

I dont get how tankies can support a "communist" nation like China that has an investor class and whose system requires the mistreatment of the proletariat.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 20 points 10 hours ago

"Because they'll eventually take away their wealth or kill them" is an argument I've actually seen on .ml. I'm not against the sentiment of getting rid of the capitalists but cmon, when someone says China isn't socialist and points at a clearly capitalist behavior you can't be "it's still socialist because the capitalist thing will be fixed in the future". Then every country might as well be socialist, we'll just fix capitalism at some later date.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

At least China goes through the motions of being Communist. They also somehow support 21st century Russia which is just openly an authoritarian oligarchy.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

My 'favorite' is when they defend clerical fascism in Iran as some kind of fantastic anti-capitalist development,

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

As a side note Islamic theocracy is immune to fascism given the fact that the ideal state in Islam is a theocracy. Theocracies and fascism are incompatible due to the supremacy of the faith in one vs the other.

Iran is just another theocratic totalitarian state. They are not fascists.

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 31 points 16 hours ago

Don't worry, someone will be along shortly to recommend 2000 pages of communist literature that wouldn't even prove their point even if you read it all.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 43 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Because they don't support communism. They just like one version of ogliarchy better than the other.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago

They're authoritarians not communists ie. the ole schtick.

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[–] mlfh@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yogthos is the kind of piece of shit that "critically supports" bombing Ukrainian kindergartens and maternity wards as long as, somewhere in the world, at least one Western tear is shed over it. Blocking them makes the fediverse far less unpleasant.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder why that user account is above the rules of the instance and its communities. The modlog is full of examples which should apply to their behavior as well

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

They're a mod of several .ml communities. Just like every communist dictatorship, laws and rules don't matter when it's the one in charge breaking them.

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 29 points 19 hours ago

One of the best decisions I've made

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 99 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wut? Was he talking about the previous Ukrainian government, sponsored by Russia™? I can't make sense of what he is saying, actually.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Dude doesn't know about Euromaidan. I wish some of these children would go to russia.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

They like the idea of Russia, not actual Russia.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 68 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I had to reread it a few times myself, but I'm pretty sure that's what he's talkin about

Because everyone knows Russia is well known for their totally legit free and fair elections/s

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 52 points 20 hours ago

Average Yogthos verbal vomit.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 53 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Huh. And here I thought Yogthos was a Chinese plant. Turns out they like the taste of Russian leather just the same.

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