Straight up planning colonialism. Just when I naively thought the mask was already as off as it was gonna be for a little while.

Is that supposed to be a comeback? Like yes, I do in fact have a cohesive worldview that isnt just "me country good, other country bad"

If you were a German in 1938 and two Wermacht soldiers were accused of spying for the USSR, you would be saying the exact same thing as you are now. I say this not as a dunk, but as a solemn acknowledgement that we are all products of our social environment. I don't think you're stupid, or a "bad person" (whatever that means) but I do think you should stop and consider the path that uncritically accepting your government's narratives about their rivals can lead you down.

Man, America is really gonna go all the way with trying to associate communism with a national/ethnic identity, huh?

Hell yeah good job everybody

My early childhood was spent listening to all the "reasonable, smart grownups" turn into wretched war hogs who would snarl that we need to glass the entire middle east, and now nobody talks about the genocidal invasions we carried out after that, everybody pretends they didnt cheer it on. And now that its politically convenient, now that one lone Christian fundamentalist psycho can make shit up and have the entire state apparatus repeat it, now they're pretending to care about muslim people, because it gives them a reason to snarl that we should glass China. These bloodthirsty freaks have no real values other than the voyueristic thrill of watching our war machine grind people to paste on their screens. Ask them what their "solution" would be for this "problem" and watch the Hitler particles start to glow as they suggest a coup, an invasion, bombings. Yet they're the ones who think they have any footing to lecture communists about humane treatment. As far as I know they're still forcibly sterilizing women in our many ICE concentration camps.

"Cancer is bad"

"Says the doctor lmfaoooo"

No you don't understand, they need to be able to defend their territory from ~~capitalist encirclement~~ tankie encircelement, they have been forced into "authoritarian" behavior as a defense against hostile neighbors, these are completely unique circumstances with no historical parallels whatsoever.

Coming smugly from the people who have historically always allied with the fascists, it's a special kind of disgusting.

Real "my girlfriend goes to another school" situation, except the girlfriend is their respect for other people

After months of "Well what about Wagner, there are Nazis on both sides!", they've finally managed to praise both side's Nazis.

Listen pal, Ukraine is Dumbledore's Rebellion Army and Russia is goddamn Dark Vader and the Nazis (bad) all rolled into one. Now are you gonna wise up and support the Nazis (good) against the bigoted slavic hordes, or am I gonna have to write more vague masturbatory screeds in the cadence of a West Wing monologue I half-watched once?

That's what I thought.