https://lemmy.world/post/27952024/16349639
lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad users verbally fellate contemporary and historical autocratic mass-murderers they deem to be “leftists”, most recently being Vladimir Putin, Xi Jingping, and Kim Jong Un.
They are, in reality, bitch-made invertebrates who don’t even have the arm-strength to lift their Molotov-sippy-cups out of their premium-outdoor-brand backpacks, let alone form meaningful opinions on economics, political philosophy, or geopolitical reality.
liberals also love to conflate the individual leader with the country and its entire state apparatus. critical support for the actions of russia combatting nato encroachment doesn't mean that we think putin personally is a great guy. I mean shit any competent leader in his shoes would have been pushed pretty strongly towards action by the material circumstances and the ongoing actions of the US in and via ukraine. But honestly he's irrelevant and we aren't making a moral judgement